Injured Morgan included in England ODI squads to meet Scotland and Australia next month
England have named their one-day international squads to play Scotland and Australia next month, with injured skipper Eoin Morgan included in the playing group despite fracturing his finger playing for Middlesex at the weekend.
In-form star Jos Buttler will be rested from the one-off ODI against Scotland before taking on Tim Paine’s team, with a 13-player squad named to play in Edinburgh on June 10.
A 14-player group featuring Buttler – replacing Sam Billings – and speedster Tom Curran will go up against Australia in the five-match series beginning at The Oval on June 13.
The England squad is largely unchanged from the 16-player group who defeated Australia 4-1 at the start of the year. The big inclusion of Ben Stokes, who made his return to cricket against New Zealand following that tour of Australia, while Jake Ball, Dawid Malan and Billings make way with the squad trimmed to 14.
England, who supplanted India at the No.1 ODI team in the ICC’s rankings in April following the annual rankings update, will head into the series full of confidence one year out from the start of a home World Cup in June 2019.
Their settled squad is in stark contrast to Australia, who are without banned batsmen Steve Smith and David Warner, and injured quartet Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Mitch Marsh.
Morgan, who fractured the ring finger on his right hand while fielding for Middlesex against Somerset and will not play for the World XI in Thursday’s charity Twenty20 game against the West Indies at Lord’s, is confident of returning to take on Australia.
“It’s not a huge concern, it’s one that hopefully we can manage past about a week when the swelling goes down,” Morgan told local media.
“It’s not fractured into the joint, which is a really good result. I’ll be fine for the one-dayers.
“I will hopefully be back for one more Middlesex game, potentially two. We will wait and see.”
England ODI squad to play Australia and Scotland:
Eoin Morgan (c), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Billings (Scotland only), Jos Buttler (Australia only), Tom Curran (Australia only) Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood
Qantas tours of England and Zimbabwe
ODI squad: Tim Paine (c), Aaron Finch (vc), Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Travis Head, Nathan Lyon, Glenn Maxwell, Shaun Marsh, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, D’Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Andrew Tye
T20 squad: Aaron Finch (c), Alex Carey (vc), Ashton Agar, Travis Head, Nic Maddinson, Glenn Maxwell, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, D’Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Swepson, Andrew Tye, Jack Wildermuth
Qantas Tour of England
June 7: Warm-up v Sussex, Hove (D/N)
June 9: Warm-up v Middlesex, Lord’s
June 13: First ODI, The Oval (D/N)
June 16: Second ODI, Cardiff
June 19: Third ODI, Trent Bridge (D/N)
June 21: Fourth ODI, Durham (D/N)
June 24: Fifth ODI, Old Trafford
June 27: Only T20, Edgbaston (D/N)
Qantas T20I tri-series Tour of Zimbabwe
Sunday, July 1: Zimbabwe vs Pakistan
Monday, July 2: Pakistan vs Australia
Tuesday, July 3: Australia vs Zimbabwe
Wednesday, July 4: Zimbabwe vs Pakistan
Thursday, July 5: Pakistan vs Australia
Friday, July 6: Australia vs Zimbabwe
Sunday, July 8: Final
