Source :- PERTH NOW NEWS
Australia’s preparations for the ODI World Cup will be tested by a strong England team in a three-match 50-over series next month.
Jacob Bethell, who made a memorable Test ton in Sydney in January, returns to Harry Brooks’ team for the first time since suffering a knee injury in July, and there are also places for Jofra Archer, Joe Root, Josh Tongue and Adil Rashid.
England will arrive having played a tri-series with Sri Lanka in Pakistan from October 18-31 while some key Australia players will have just returned from their Test series in South Africa.
Both sides are building to the World Cup in Southern Africa next October.
England will also play five ODIs on the Australia trip and have named a more experimental squad for that leg featuring 18-year-old Thomas Rew and uncapped seamer Eddie Jack, 21.
Somerset wicketkeeper-batter Rew, who has leapfrogged older brother James in the pecking order, would become the third 18-year-old to play men’s international cricket for England if he features in any of the first three games of the five-match contest in Australia.
“Thomas Rew is an amazing young talent,” national selector Marcus North, the former Australia batter, told the Test Match Special podcast. “He has a great maturity around him for an 18-year-old.
ENGLAND WHITE-BALL SQUADS TO TOUR AUSTRALIA
ODI: H Brook (capt), J Archer, G Atkinson, S Baker, T Banton, J Bethell, J Cox, H Crocombe, S Curran, L Dawson, B Duckett, W Jacks, J Overton, A Rashid, J Root, J Tongue.
T20: H Brook (capt), T Banton, J Bethell, J Coles, J Cox, H Crocombe, S Curran, L Dawson, A Donald, E Jack, W Jacks, J Overton, A Rashid, T Rew, P Salt, L Wood.
Matches from November 13-December 2
