Bairstow & Moeen out as England pick five new faces

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England person picked 5 uncapped players for adjacent month's white-ball bid against Australia but person near retired Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali.

In an evident look to nan future, Jacob Bethell, 20, and Dan Mousley, 23 - some Warwickshire batting all-rounders - person been fixed their first world call-ups for nan three-match T20 series.

Essex batter Jordan Cox, Hampshire seamer John Turner and Leicestershire left-arm bowler Josh Hull, who was named successful nan Test squad to play Sri Lanka connected Sunday, person besides been picked successful nan 15-strong squad.

Hull, Bethell and Turner are besides successful nan squad for nan 5 one-day internationals that follow.

Former opener Marcus Trescothick will beryllium England coach for nan series, having been appointed connected an interim ground pursuing nan departure of Matthew Mott.

Australian Mott near successful July - a period aft England's defence of their T20 World Cup title ended successful nan semi-finals against India. That came aft England's calamitous defence of their 50-over world title past 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 nan highest-profile casualties from those campaigns and could now person made their last England appearances.

Wicketkeeper-batter Bairstow was fixed a two-year England statement successful October past twelvemonth but was besides dropped from nan Test broadside earlier this summertime while all-rounder Moeen retired from red-ball cricket for a 2nd clip aft past summer's Ashes series.

Bairstow has played 287 times for England crossed each formats and, for illustration Moeen, was portion of nan broadside who won nan World Cup successful 2019.

Moeen, who 298 England caps and was Jos Buttler's vice-captain astatine nan past 3 World Cups, besides won nan T20 World Cup successful Australia successful 2022, a tourney Bairstow missed because of a superior limb injury.

Bowler Chris Jordan, different personnel of England's T20 World Cup squad, has besides been near retired wholly while England opportunity batter Joe Root, who has not played a T20 world since 2019, has been rested from nan ODI squad.

Mark Wood and Ben Stokes are injured.

Buttler will return arsenic captain, having missed The Hundred because of a calf injury.

Pace bowler Saqib Mahmood has been picked successful nan T20 squad. He has not played for England since sustaining a 2nd accent fracture of his backmost past year.

Durham speedy Brydon Carse has besides been included successful some squads, pinch his ban for betting offences group to extremity connected 28 August.

With nan first T20 against Australia coming connected 11 September, a time aft nan conclusion of nan ongoing Test bid against Sri Lanka, Harry Brook, Gus Atkinson, Matthew Potts and Jamie Smith will only characteristic successful nan ODI matches.

Smith played 2 ODIs arsenic portion of a second-string England against Ireland past twelvemonth but looks group for a much important domiciled pursuing his awesome commencement to Test cricket.

All-rounder Liam Livingstone has only been included successful nan T20 squad contempt being a regular successful nan 50-over broadside successful caller years.

Mousley is much known arsenic a powerful middle-order batter but impressed pinch his off-spin successful The Hundred erstwhile he conceded conscionable 3 runs and took 3 wickets erstwhile defending 10 runs from nan last 10 balls for Birmingham Phoenix against Trent Rockets.

Barbados-born left-hander Bethell, who besides played for nan Phoenix, was portion of nan England squad who reached nan Under-19 World Cup last successful 2022.

Cox was picked successful England's squad for nan first Test against Sri Lanka past week but did not play.

Having been released to play for Essex he deed a 92-ball 100 successful nan County Championship.

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