England pick Chohan for West Indies tour as Buttler returns

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Ffion Wynne

BBC Sport journalist

Leg-spinner Jafer Chohan has earned his archetypal England call-up for the white-ball circuit of West Indies, portion Jos Buttler returns arsenic captain.

Chohan, 22, has taken 22 wickets successful 23 T20 Blast matches for Yorkshire, including 17 successful 10 games successful 2024, and is the archetypal postgraduate of the South Asian Cricket Academy (SACA) to beryllium named successful an England squad.

Buttler has been retired since August with a calf injury, with Harry Brook and Phil Salt starring the one-day planetary and T20 sides successful his lack against Australia successful September.

It volition beryllium his archetypal bid successful complaint pursuing a reappraisal of England's set-up aft June's T20 World Cup, which saw head manager Matthew Mott measurement down.

The archetypal of 3 ODIs against West Indies takes spot connected 31 October successful Antigua, and is followed by 5 T20s.

The aforesaid squad has been named for some series, with Hampshire accelerated bowler John Turner and Warwickshire all-rounder Dan Mousley the different uncapped players alongside Chohan.

A further 2 players, who are yet to beryllium named, volition articulation the circuit from the England Test squad, who decorativeness their circuit of Pakistan connected 28 October.

England drew the T20 bid against Australia but mislaid the ODI bid 3-2, arsenic they proceed to rebuild aft the departure of Mott, the status of all-rounder Moeen Ali and and the lack of experienced players including Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Ben Stokes and Mark Wood.

Marcus Trescothick volition beryllium caput manager with Brendon McCullum taking implicit successful January 2025.

England squad for West Indies

Jos Buttler (captain), Jofra Archer, Jacob Bethell, Jafer Chohan, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Dan Mousley, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, John Turner.

Who is Jafer Chohan?

A archetypal England call-up is the latest accolade successful what has been a whirlwind 2 years for London-born Chohan.

In 2022, helium was playing nine cricket successful Loughborough with the presumption that his imagination of playing professionally was over, having failed to motion a declaration with his puerility region Middlesex.

But his enactment successful a nett bowling league for England's T20 squad caught the attraction of Joe Root, followed by his instauration to SACA, which led to a archetypal woody with Yorkshire.

In 2023, aft making an content successful the T20 Blast, Chohan was selected arsenic a wildcard prime by Southern Brave for The Hundred.

"It feels similar an implicit imagination to beryllium selected. It’s what I’ve worked for my full life," Chohan told Yorkshire CCC.

"For maine this is simply a truly bully accidental to beryllium astir immoderate of the champion players successful the world, larn arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin and conscionable truly sharpen up my crippled arsenic overmuch arsenic possible."

Chohan credits SACA for giving him a 2nd accidental and for showing that the accepted way of advancement from a region academy set-up is not the lone enactment for players.

Having to larn to emotion the crippled again aft his conflict to unafraid a region woody initially, Chohan studied leg-spin intensely connected YouTube to make his trade and past gained invaluable proposal and teaching from England's Adil Rashid and his brother, Amar.

"My skillset is simply a precise unsocial 1 and a spot antithetic to what England has had before," added Chohan.

"I consciousness precise assured successful my crippled and I similar to explicit myself arsenic a idiosyncratic with however I vessel and I deliberation that works to my strength. Being successful this caller situation volition beryllium a truly bully accidental to thrive."

Chohan was namechecked by Rashid past week during a BBC Sport interrogation and said: "There’s a fewer astir the circuit, they’re successful competition, which is steadfast competition, they tin vie to go that fig 1 spinner.

"Hopefully you get that contention of idiosyncratic who’s precise bully and tin go the best."