England retain only six players from WC squad for West Indies tour
Monday, 13 November 2023
KOLKATA, Nov 12 (AFP): England announced Sunday a squad for next month's one-day international series in the Caribbean featuring just six survivors from their woeful World Cup defence in India.
Jos Buttler men's won just three games and failed to reach the semi-finals. Nevertheless Buttler remains captain for the tour which sees three ODIs and five Twenty20s.
Promising batsman Harry Brook, all-rounder Liam Livingstone as well as pacemen Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse and Sam Curran are the other World Cup survivors.
Multi-format regulars Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root and Mark Wood have been rested ahead of January's Test series in India, with red-ball captain Ben Stokes heading straight for surgery on a longstanding knee injury.
But the decision to leave out batsman Dawid Malan, all-rounder Moeen Ali and seamer Chris Woakes could signal the end of the trio's ODI careers.