England Squad Announced for Pakistan Test Series: The England team is going to tour Pakistan in a few weeks, where 3 Test matches will be played between the two teams. England has announced its 17-member squad for this Test series. Captain Ben Stokes will be returning to the team after recovering from injury. Let us tell you that this series will be very important for the World Test Championship, in whose table England and Pakistan are at sixth and eighth place respectively.
Jack Crowley was not playing in the series against Sri Lanka due to a finger injury, but he has also returned for the series against Pakistan. Spin bowling will prove to be very important on Pakistani pitches, that is why England has included Rehan Ahmed and Jack Leach in its squad apart from Shoaib Bashir. Tom Hartley, who took 22 wickets in five Test matches against India this year, has been left out of the squad.
20-year-old left-arm fast bowler Josh Hull made his debut for England in the third Test match against Sri Lanka. He will also get an opportunity to tour Pakistan, while 2 uncapped players in the form of Brydon Carse and Jordan Cox have also been included in England’s Test squad. On the other hand, captain Ben Stokes can also be seen focusing on bowling in this series.
Where will the matches take place, nothing is clear
Since renovation work is going on in all the three big stadiums of Pakistan, Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore, it has not been decided yet where the Pakistan vs England Test matches will be played. Recently, a report also came out that the Pak-England matches can be held in UAE or Sri Lanka. On the other hand, it has also been speculated that Pakistan is trying to get the matches held on its home grounds in any way.
England squad for Pakistan series: Ben Stokes (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Jordan Cox, Jack Crawley, Ben Duckett, Josh Hull, Jack Leach, Ollie Pope, Matthew Potts, Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Ollie Stone, Chris Woakes.
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