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England select 18-year-old Thomas Rew for Australia white-ball tour
England have selected 18-year-old Thomas Rew for his first senior call-up, joining the men’s white-ball squads for a tour of Australia next month.
The four-week trip includes three one-day internationals and five Twenty20 matches, following England’s tri-series in Pakistan.
Rew is a Somerset wicketkeeper-batter who has scored two centuries in four first-class appearances.
He is one of four uncapped players in the T20 squad, alongside Henry Crocombe, James Coles and Eddie Jack.
Jacob Bethell is fit to return after a knee injury, while Jos Buttler remains absent after hamstring surgery.
England’s frontline fast bowlers will play the ODIs, which start on 13 November, before leaving for the Test tour of South Africa.
Brydon Carse remains out of the squads while he awaits the outcome of a disciplinary process.
England have selected 18-year-old Thomas Rew for his first national-team call-up, for a white-ball tour of Australia next month.
The four-week tour will include three one-day internationals and five Twenty20 matches.
Rew is one of four uncapped players in England’s Twenty20 squad.
Jacob Bethell is fit to return after a knee injury, while Brydon Carse remains out of the squads.
The ODI series begins on 13 November, before several fast bowlers leave to prepare for England’s Test tour of South Africa.
- Who
- England have selected 18-year-old Thomas Rew, a Somerset wicketkeeper-batter.
- What
- He received his first call-up for England’s white-ball tour of Australia.
- When
- The tour is next month, after the tri-series in Pakistan. The ODIs begin on 13 November.
- Where
- Australia.
- Why
- Not stated
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Rew earned his first England development contract.
England are scheduled to begin their four-week tour of Australia.
England’s ODI series in Australia is scheduled to start.
- Age
- 18
- Tour length
- Four weeks
- ODIs
- Three, starting on 13 November
- Twenty20s
- Five
- Thomas Rew
- Somerset wicketkeeper-batter, one of four uncapped players in the T20 squad
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