England ring changes for West Indies Tests
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Plenty of talking points in England’s opening men’s Test squad for the summer with the likes of Dillon Pennington and Jamie Smith included and Ben Foakes and Jonny Bairstow dropped. James Anderson, as expected, is in the squad for the Lord’s Test which will be his last before retirement. Meanwhile Jack Leach misses out in favour of his Somerset team-mate Shoaib Bashir.
Isabelle Westbury is joined by former England spinner, coach, selector and director of cricket Ashley Giles who’s now Chief executive at Worcestershire to discuss the squad. She’s also joined by World Cup winner Ebony Rainford-Brent and record breaking bowler Katherine Sciver-Brunt.
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| 0:51.0 | I'm Isabel Westbury and welcome to the Test Match Special Podcast. England have named their |
| 0:56.7 | squad for the first two men's tests against the West Indies with plenty to talk about. |
| 1:02.1 | To come or get the thoughts of Ashley Giles, |
| 1:04.7 | Ebony Rainford Brent and Catherine Siver brunt. Earlier this morning, England men announced their first squad of the summer for the |
| 1:22.2 | test series it's about to unfold against the West Indies |
| 1:25.0 | and the announcement came 930 this morning for the first two tests well on the whole for the first two tests because of course as we already know |
| 1:34.7 | James Anderson announced a few months ago a couple of months ago that his his last |
| 1:40.4 | test was going to be the first test of the summer at Lords. So of course he is a familiar |
| 1:46.5 | pick in that lineup. But I'll run down who has been announced to start this series at Lords in about 10 days time, 10th of July. |
| 1:57.0 | So Ben Stokes of course Durham, Captain James Anderson is in there for the first test only. |
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