- Harry Brook is preparing for his first series as a new white ball captain in England
- Liam Livingstone has been abandoned while former skipper Jos Buttler returns
- Tom Hartley and Luke Wood return respectively to the squads of a day and T20
The international career of Liam Livingstone seems to be finished after being chopped by England for the second time in nine months on Tuesday.
Livingstone, 31, was the victim of a start capable of 2025 comprising 10 losses in 11 limited games when the first teams under the new white ball captain in England Harry Brook were announced.
Among the players to face the Antilles in series of three twin games that start later this month, the Hampshire veteran, Liam Dawson, after an absence of almost three years and the duo of the Lancashire Tom Hartley and Luke Wood, who both won their recent caps in 2023.
But their County colleague, Livingstone – whose turbulent past the past has seen him omitted from the series of a day against Australia at the end of the summer of 2024 and radically captured the team six weeks later in the Caribbean – paid the price of a poor winter.
Bearing the armband in the absence of Jos Buttler last November, he struck a superb 124 undefeated for Hurtle L’Angleterre at a price 329 in Antigua, and his three six in four balls were credited for having implemented the unique victory in eight attempts in India, but a collection of only 33 points in three sleeves in the Champions Trophy was the most revealing.
England has selected a versatile bowling alternative in the Will Jacks of Surrey for the two squads and the slow left Smart Sanmer Dawson, the reigning player of the County County year, as a T20 specialist.
England has ax Liam Livingstone for its Twin Limited-Overse series against the Antilles
He marks the second time in nine months that Livingstone, 31, was abandoned by England
The ODI and T20 series against the Antilles will be the first tests of Harry Brook as captain of England
The start of a new era under Brook represents a moment to build a team for global events in each of the next two years: the T20 World Cup is only nine months old, while version 50 down in 2027.
A complication for England is the resumption of the Indian Premier League on Saturday and a new calendar that saw its final postponed on June 3, the date of the third and last ODI against Windies.
Of the five players that this makes, those who have franchises that dispute places with direct elimination – the former captain of England Buttler, Jacks and Jacob Bethell in Gujarat, Mumbai and Bangalore respectively – should return to India later this week, but not to release the original dates on their non -objection certificates. Jamie Overton and Jofra Archer are likely to stay here.
Meanwhile, Mark Wood uses his latest section to follow Jimmy Anderson as a bowling alley, joining the coaches of a County Select XI, captain by the son of Michael Atherton, Josh de Cares, who faces Zimbabwe on Thursday during a pre-test heating.
