After a thrilling Test series that ended in a 1-1 draw, New Zealand and England will be waiting to have a go at each other in the ODI series to prove their own supremacy. New Zealand who lost in the finals of the World Cup are in good mental form whereas England were knocked out of the group stage and will face tense times playing ODI cricket again.
Having lost the 2nd test convincingly by 199 runs at Headingly, the ECB dint waste time in announcing the team for the five match ODI series between the teams. Having been outperformed for a large part of the tour, England would want to bounce back and will want to play positive cricket to overcome the Black caps.
The ECB has made plenty of changes from the test squad and will hope that the new players who are given a chance will prove themselves and give the team a much needed series victory. However the NZ team is far from an easy squad and England will have to play out of their skins to get anything from the series.
Here is the England team for the 5 match series against New Zealand –
Eoin Morgan (c), Sam Billings, Jos Buttler (wk), Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, David Willey, Mark Wood
The team announced by the ECB is captained by Eoin Morgan who will make a comeback into the England squad. The batting order lacks a bit of experience but has the talent to run riot on its day.
But the most notable changes have been the omission of the likes of Ian Bell who has not had a great test series, Moeen Ali who has been the main all rounder for England at the World Cup, Stuart Broad the English T20 skipper and Jimmy Anderson who just became the highest wicket taker for England in Tests.
England will play 5 ODI’s and a T20 in the remaining part of the tour of New Zealand.