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LONDON: Jos Buttler will return as white-ball captain for England’s tour of the West Indies starting

LONDON: Jos Buttler will return as white-ball captain for England’s tour of the West Indies starting later this month after a long injury lay-off, sele­c­tors announced on Wednesday. The 14-man squad for three One-day Internationals and five Twenty20 Internationals in An­t­igua, Barbados and St Luc­ia features three uncapped players. Buttler missed England’s recent T20 and ODI series against Australia as he recovered from a calf injury. England drew the T20 series 1-1 and lost the ODI series 3-2 to the 50-over world champions. Buttler, part of England’s 2019 World Cup-winning team, is one of the most destructive batters in the game in white-ball formats. But he has not played since the T20 World Cup in the US and West Indies in June, where England failed to retain their trophy. Yorkshire leg-spinner Jafer Chohan earns his first England call-up, while John Turner and Dan Mousley are the other uncapped players. Chohan, 22, said selection “feels like an absolute dream”. “My skill set is a very unique one and a bit different from what England has had before,” he said. “I feel very confident in my game and I like to express myself as a person with how I bowl and I think that works to my strength.” The squad will be supplemented with two players from the Test squad in Pakistan, with England starting a three-match series in Multan next week. A decision on who will jet to the Caribbean will be made after selection for the third Test in Rawalpindi, which begins on October 24. Harry Brook stood in as Eng­l­and skipper for the Australia ODI series, topping the scoring charts with 312 runs in five innings at an average of 78. England’s white-ball tour starts with the first ODI at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. The T20 series begins in Barbados on Nov 9 and ends in St Lucia on Nov 17. Squad: Jos Buttler (captain), Jofra Archer, Jacob Bethell, Jafer Chohan, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Dan Mousley, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, John Turner.

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