Ben Stokes: England all-rounder set for Cricket World Cup after ending ODI retirement

Ben Stokes volition beryllium portion of England's World Cup squad aft reversing his determination to discontinue from one-day planetary cricket.

Batters Harry Brook and Ben Duckett person been near out, portion gait bowler Jofra Archer volition not beryllium acceptable successful time.

Uncapped Surrey accelerated bowler Gus Atkinson, 25, is included successful a radical which volition beryllium led by Jos Buttler.

England volition support the trophy successful India successful October and November having famously won it connected location ungraded 4 years ago.

Their opening lucifer is against New Zealand - a repetition of the thrilling 2019 last - successful Ahmedabad connected 5 October.

England tin inactive marque changes to their squad earlier the World Cup, but barring injuries, it is apt that these 15 players volition marque the trip.

There are 9 survivors from the England squad that won the 50-over World Cup for the archetypal time, including Stokes, who was subordinate of the lucifer successful the final.

The all-rounder retired from ODIs successful July of past year, saying that playing 3 formats was "unsustainable". He continued to skipper the England Test broadside and playing successful T20 internationals, going connected to person a starring relation successful the last arsenic England lifted the World Cup successful the shortest format past November.

As precocious arsenic past period helium reiterated that helium remained retired from ODIs and had planned to usage a six-month interruption from Test cricket to code a semipermanent left-knee problem.

However, white-ball manager Matthew Mott said skipper Buttler would attack Stokes implicit a return, resulting successful his inclusion for the 4 matches against New Zealand successful September and the World Cup that follows.

"The instrumentality of Ben Stokes lone adds to [the squad's] prime with his match-winning quality and leadership. I americium definite that each instrumentality volition bask seeing him backmost successful an England ODI garment again," said nationalist selector Luke Wright.

Given the issues with his knee, Stokes' relation with the shot could beryllium limited, but England person flexibility done all-rounders Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran and Chris Woakes.

His inclusion arsenic a batter squeezes retired Yorkshire's Brook, who has done truthful overmuch to impressment crossed each formats since making his England debut past year.

Archer, 28, bowled the ace implicit successful England's last triumph 4 years ago, but has been plagued by injuries passim astir the full clip since.

He has missed the full location summertime with a recurrence of a accent fracture successful his elbow and though helium has returned to grooming with Sussex, it was felt that the World Cup has travel excessively soon.

Therefore Atkinson, who has lone ever played 2 List A matches, volition supply a high-pace enactment alongside Mark Wood.

Left-armers Reece Topley and David Willey are besides included. For Topley it is different changeable astatine World Cup glory aft being ruled retired of the past year's T20 triumph with an ankle injury, portion Willey yet gets to play successful a 50-over World Cup aft being omitted from the 2019 squad.

Batters Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy and Joe Root, arsenic good arsenic spinner Adil Rashid, were portion of the contingent that played 4 years ago.

Buttler volition pb astatine a 50-over World Cup for the archetypal time, having taken implicit from the retired Eoin Morgan past year. It was Buttler who led England to the T20 rubric successful Australia, making them the archetypal men's broadside to clasp some limited-overs satellite titles simultaneously.

Now, they are looking to go some the archetypal men's squad to support a 50-over World Cup and archetypal non-host to triumph it since Australia successful 2007.

The ODI bid against New Zealand is preceded by 4 T20s against the Black Caps, opening connected 30 August.

England person named a 15-man squad for that contest, including Atkinson and chap uncapped gait bowlers Josh Tongue and John Turner. Rehan Ahmed, the 19-year-old leg-spinner, besides gets the nod.

Following the bid against the Black Caps, England volition besides play 3 ODIs against Ireland astatine the extremity of September. Given the adjacent proximity of those matches to the World Cup, a fig of players volition beryllium rested, with a caller squad owed to beryllium named astatine a aboriginal date.

England squad for ODI bid against New Zealand: Jos Buttler (captain), Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, David Willey, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes.

England squad for T20 bid against New Zealand: Jos Buttler (captain), Rehan Ahmed, Moeen Ali, Gus Atkinson, Jonny Bairstow, Harry Brook, Sam Curran, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Josh Tongue, John Turner, Luke Wood.