Jordan Cox and Jacob Bethell have been included in Brendon McCullum's squad following a series defeat in Pakistan
Jordan Cox and Jacob Bethell have been included in Brendon McCullum's squad following a series defeat in PakistanThe players will be flying out to the Land of the Long White Cloud even sooner given they have a two-day warm-up game scheduled in Queenstown the week before the three-match series starts in Christchurch on 28 November.against a New Zealand side who have just made history by becoming the first away team to win a Test series in India since Alastair Cook’s England in 2012.
Gus Atkinson also did well in conditions not suited to seam, with his six wickets coming in at 27.83 apiece. Leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed, 20, produced the goods in his only Test, the last in Rawalpindi, with a four-wicket burst that should have been a turning point for the tourists., with England’s vice-captain averaging 11 in a desperate series that should put his place at No3 in jeopardy but probably won’t.
Uncapped Jacob Bethell has been called into the squad as additional cover, having previously featured for England in ODIs and T20Is.In a word, yes. Stokes was raving about the young off-spinner in the aftermath of defeat in Rawalpindi – a match in which he took three for 139 – saying how great it was for him to be able to learn about international cricket “on the job”.
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