England on Saturday recalled seasoned tempo bowling all-rounder Chris Woakes to their T20 squad after greater than 5 years for the upcoming three-match residence sequence towards Sri Lanka beginning June 23.
Three gamers — Liam Dawson and David Willey, other than Woakes — changed the injured trio of Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Recee Topley within the squad.
Woakes final performed a T20I for England in 2015.
“With the T20 World Cup just a few months away, this summer season is about perfecting our workforce and proceed to progress on the sector,” England coach Chris Silverwood stated.
“We need to strategy each sequence with an inflow of gamers aiming to win each match and giving us the very best preparation as we get nearer to the match.
“With a number of high-profile gamers lacking by damage, it permits me to take a look at a few of our skilled gamers who haven’t featured at this stage for a while.
“The likes of Chris Woakes and David Willey are very skilled cricketers, and to have them each within the combine is thrilling and reveals the depth of squad we now have out there.”
England Squad: Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Jonathan Bairstow, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Liam Dawson, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wooden.
