Pace bowler Gus Atkinson will make his Test debut in England's series opener against West Indies at Lord's on Wednesday.
Pace bowler Gus Atkinson will make his Test debut in England's series opener against West Indies at Lord's on Wednesday.Atkinson's Surrey team-mate Jamie Smith, 23, will also make his Test bow behind the stumps, a move confirmed when he was named in the squad ahead of Jonny Bairstow and Ben Foakes.
Off-spinner Shoaib Bashir, picked in the England squad ahead of his Somerset team-mate Jack Leach, plays his first home Test after winning three caps on the tour of India.Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes , Jamie Smith , Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson.Overall, England have a fresh look for the first Test in the three-match series against the Windies.
Atkinson, capable of bowling at high pace, has taken 59 wickets in 19 first-class matches. He gets the nod ahead of Matthew Potts and the uncapped Dillon Pennington, who are the other seamers in the squad. Woakes also plays his first Test since last summer after being overlooked for the tour of India despite being named player of the series in the Ashes.
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