England have picked five uncapped players for next
month's white-ball series against Australia but have left out Jonny Bairstow
and Moeen Ali.
In an apparent look to the future, Jacob Bethell, 20, and
Dan Mousley, 23 - both Warwickshire batting all-rounders - have been given
their first international call-ups for the three-match T20 series.
Essex batter Jordan Cox, Hampshire seamer John Turner and
Leicestershire left-arm bowler Josh Hull, who was named in the Test
squad to play Sri Lanka on Sunday, have also been picked in the 15-strong
squad.
Hull, Bethell and Turner are also in the squad for the five
one-day internationals that follow.
Former opener Marcus Trescothick will be England coach for
the series, having been appointed on an interim basis following the departure
of Matthew Mott.
Australian Mott left in July - a month after England's
defence of their T20 World Cup title ended in the semi-finals against India.
That came after England's calamitous defence of their 50-over world title last
year.
England T20 squad to play Australia: Jos Buttler
(Lancashire, captain), Jofra Archer (Sussex), Jacob Bethell (Warwickshire),
Brydon Carse (Durham), Jordan Cox (Essex), Sam Curran (Surrey), Josh Hull
(Leicestershire), Will Jacks (Surrey), Liam Livingstone (Lancashire), Saqib
Mahmood (Lancashire), Dan Mousley (Warwickshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Phil
Salt (Lancashire), Reece Topley (Surrey), John Turner (Hampshire)
England ODI squad: Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer,
Gus Atkinson (Surrey), Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Brydon Carse,
Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire), Josh Hull, Will Jacks, Matthew Potts (Durham),
Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Jamie Smith (Surrey), Reece Topley, John Turner
World Cup winners Bairstow, 34, and Moeen, 37, are the
highest-profile casualties from those campaigns and could now have made their
final England appearances.
Wicketkeeper-batter Bairstow was given a two-year England
contract in October last year but was also dropped from the Test side earlier
this summer while all-rounder Moeen retired from red-ball cricket for a second
time after last summer's Ashes series.
Bairstow has played 287 times for England across all formats
and, like Moeen, was part of the side who won the World Cup in 2019.
Moeen, who 298 England caps and was Jos Buttler's
vice-captain at the past three World Cups, also won the T20 World Cup in
Australia in 2022, a tournament Bairstow missed because of a serious leg
injury.
Bowler Chris Jordan, another member of England's T20 World
Cup squad, has also been left out entirely while England say batter Joe Root,
who has not played a T20 international since 2019, has been rested from the ODI
squad.
Mark Wood and Ben Stokes are injured.
Buttler will return as captain, having missed The Hundred
because of a calf injury.
Pace bowler Saqib Mahmood has been picked in the T20 squad.
He has not played for England since sustaining a second stress fracture of his
back last year.
Durham quick Brydon Carse has also been included in both
squads, with his ban for betting offences set to end on 28 August.
With the first T20 against Australia coming on 11 September,
a day after the conclusion of the ongoing Test series against Sri Lanka, Harry
Brook, Gus Atkinson, Matthew Potts and Jamie Smith will only feature in the ODI
matches.
Smith played two ODIs as part of a second-string England
against Ireland last year but looks set for a more significant role following
his impressive start to Test cricket.
All-rounder Liam Livingstone has only been included in the
T20 squad despite being a regular in the 50-over side in recent years.
Mousley is more known as a powerful middle-order batter but
impressed with his off-spin in The Hundred when he conceded just three
runs and took three wickets when defending 10 runs from the final 10
balls for Birmingham Phoenix against Trent Rockets.
Barbados-born left-hander Bethell, who also played for the
Phoenix, was part of the England squad who reached the Under-19 World Cup final
in 2022.
Cox was picked in England's squad for the first Test against
Sri Lanka last week but did not play.
Having been released to play for Essex he hit a 92-ball
hundred in the County Championship.
