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The Star
13-05-2025
- Sport
- The Star
Cricket-Dawson returns for England's T20 squad, Salt dropped from ODIs against West Indies
FILE PHOTO: Cricket - T20 Blast Finals Day - Semi Final - Hampshire v Essex - Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, Britain - July 15, 2023 Hampshire's Liam Dawson in action Action Images via Reuters/John Sibley/File Photo (Reuters) -All-rounder Liam Dawson has returned to England's T20 squad for the first time since 2022, while Phil Salt was not selected by the England & Wales Cricket Board for the upcoming white-ball home series against West Indies. England, who will play three ODIs and three T20 matches against West Indies between May 29 and June 10, have also recalled batting all-rounder Will Jacks to both squads led by Harry Brook, who was named white-ball captain last month. Luke Wood and Tom Hartley, who have not played white-ball cricket for England since September 2023, have returned to the T20 and the ODI sides respectively. Jacks, along with Jos Buttler, Jacob Bethell, Jamie Overton and Jofra Archer, were playing in the Indian Premier League before its matches were suspended amid fighting between India and Pakistan. The IPL will resume on May 17, with the final now set for June 3, which clashes with the ODI series against West Indies. British media reports said all 10 English players involved with the IPL will hold a meeting with the Professional Cricketers' Association over security arrangements for a potential return to India. Cricket Australia also said they are working with the Indian cricket board (BCCI) on security arrangements with several of their players set to decide whether they will return to play the rest of the IPL season. England will also play a four-day test with Zimbabwe, starting May 22 at Trent Bridge. England squads: ODI: Harry Brook (captain), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson (Surrey), Tom Banton, Jacob Bethell, Jos Buttler, Brydon Carse, Ben Duckett, Tom Hartley, Will Jacks, Saqib Mahmood, Jamie Overton, Matthew Potts, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jamie Smith. T20: Harry Brook (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Banton, Jacob Bethell, Jos Buttler, Brydon Carse, Liam Dawson, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Saqib Mahmood, Jamie Overton, Matthew Potts, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Luke Wood. (Reporting by Chiranjit Ojha in BengaluruEditing by Christian Radnedge)
BBC News
20-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Willey backs earlier Finals Day in T20 Blast
Northants Steelbacks captain David Willey has called for T20 Blast Finals Day to be reinstated earlier in the domestic climax of county cricket's shortest format was played in July in 2022 and 2023, but was pushed back to September last the 22 years since T20 cricket made its debut in England, only four finals have been played in July, with the majority taking place in August - a month which is now dominated by The Hundred, and this year's Finals Day will be on 13 September."The schedule is ridiculous, I won't beat around the bush there. Having that huge gap before you play a quarter-final shafted us last year," Willey told BBC Radio Northampton."I think you need to block out parts of the season for each format. I think there's nothing better than you play the Blast finals just before The Hundred starts - it makes more sense to do that and then it's just where you fit the County Championship in around that."Willey believes the overall domestic season could be extended into the first part of October to fit everything in."I think the season could be pushed back a little bit, given the challenges groundsmen face to produce good wickets at this time of year, with usually pretty poor conditions," he added."Very often we put our feet up in October and it's glorious and dry, there is potential to do that."He continued: "Whether you do reduce games there (in the Championship), I don't know. I appreciate it's a busy season but part and parcel of county cricket, and actually one of the beauties of it, is that there's so many more dimensions than just preparing as best as you can for each game. There's a little bit of give and take along the way." Willey bowled Northants to their first T20 title in 2013 with a hat-trick in the final and the Steelbacks lifted the trophy again in he believes the arrival of Australian Darren Lehmann as head coach will help them challenge again after reaching the quarter-finals last previously played under Lehmann in The Hundred for Northern Superchargers and described it as a "really exciting appointment" for the club."He's a self-confessed cricket nut, he studies the game, watches the game, played county cricket for Yorkshire for some time - he was an incredible player and has won pretty much everything there is to win as a coach as well," Willey said."That knowledge and understanding of the county game, understanding the schedule of the county game is a big part of it, and he'll be able to push guys and challenge guys with the care that he does is going to be great for the club."Northants start the new season on 4 April with a County Championship game against Kent - and their T20 Blast campaign begins on 30 May when they are away to Yorkshire, the former club of both Lehmann and Willey. Although primarily a white-ball player nowadays, Willey is willing to consider playing some Championship cricket in the right circumstances."Come September, if the side are in a position to play for something - I don't want to take a position if there's nothing to play for, get young guys ready for the following season - but if they're in contention for promotion and if they need me, I'll try and help the boys out and get us across the line," he now 35, and having retired from international cricket in 2023 after 116 white-ball games when he was not offered a new ECB contract, he still believes he could do a job for all-rounder added: "The senior bowlers that have been playing have very often suffered with injuries and to have someone that's been in global competitions and been around the group a long time, I feel I could still add value helping the next crop of English white-ball cricketers coming through."
