Liam Livingstone is AXED by England for both white-ball series against West Indies... as first squads under new captain Harry Brook are revealed

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  • Harry Brook is gearing up for his archetypal bid arsenic England's caller white-ball captain 
  • Liam Livingstone has been dropped portion erstwhile skipper Jos Buttler returns
  • Tom Hartley and Luke Wood instrumentality successful the one-day and T20 squads respectively

By RICHARD GIBSON

Published: 09:48 EDT, 13 May 2025 | Updated: 09:48 EDT, 13 May 2025

Liam Livingstone has been axed by England for the 2nd clip successful 9 months up of duplicate limited-overs bid against West Indies.

The sanction of Livingstone, 31, was the 1 conspicuous by its lack connected Tuesday arsenic the archetypal squads led by caller white-ball skipper Harry Brook were revealed.

Among them were Hampshire all-rounder Liam Dawson - for the Twenty20 bid lone - but Livingstone, whose turbulent caller past saw him omitted from the one-day bid versus Australia astatine the extremity of the 2024 summertime and past recalled and captaining the squad six weeks aboriginal successful the Caribbean, has paid the terms for a mediocre winter.

Others tin possibly number themselves fortunate to past pursuing six consecutive 50-over defeats and a 4-1 Twenty20 nonaccomplishment to India earlier this year.

His Lancashire team-mates Tom Hartley and Luke Wood instrumentality successful the one-day and T20 squads respectively aft 2 twelvemonth absences, but it is the recall astatine 35 of Dawson, the reigning subordinate of the twelvemonth successful region cricket, that has caught the eye.

Dawson past played successful the 4-3 T20 bid triumph successful Pakistan successful September 2022.

England person axed Liam Livingstone for their duplicate limited-overs bid against West Indies

It marks the 2nd clip successful 9 months that Livingstone, 31, has been dropped by England

The ODI and T20 bid against West Indies volition beryllium Harry Brook's archetypal tests arsenic England captain

England squads to look West Indies

ODI Squad 

Harry Brook (Yorkshire) – Captain

Jofra Archer (Sussex)

Gus Atkinson (Surrey)

Tom Banton (Somerset)

Jacob Bethell (Warwickshire)

Jos Buttler (Lancashire)

Brydon Carse (Durham)

Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)

Tom Hartley (Lancashire)

Will Jacks (Surrey)

Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire)

Jamie Overton (Surrey)

Matthew Potts (Durham)

Adil Rashid (Yorkshire)

Joe Root (Yorkshire)

Jamie Smith (Surrey)

IT20 Squad 

Harry Brook (Yorkshire) – Captain

Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire)

Tom Banton (Somerset)

Jacob Bethell (Warwickshire)

Jos Buttler (Lancashire)

Brydon Carse (Durham)

Liam Dawson (Hampshire)

Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)

Will Jacks (Surrey)

Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire)

Jamie Overton (Surrey)

Matthew Potts (Durham)

Adil Rashid (Yorkshire)

Phil Salt (Lancashire)

Luke Wood (Lancashire)

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Surrey all-rounder Will Jacks - who similar Livingstone is 1 of the England players progressive successful this year’s suspended Indian Premier League - besides comes backmost successful to some series.

It remains unclear whether England’s internationals volition instrumentality for the resumption of a tourney that is present acceptable to tally until June 3, arsenic that is the day of the 3rd and last ODI against the Windies. Five of the 16-strong ODI squad person IPL commitments.

'We’re keen to enactment the IPL and the BCCI successful getting the docket up and running, and to facilitate players’ instrumentality should they take to spell back,’ said an ECB spokesperson.

'No Objection Certificates person been granted based connected the archetypal IPL dates, truthful we’ll request to reappraisal immoderate imaginable extensions, peculiarly successful narration to immoderate clash with the last white-ball squad.

'We’ll proceed to enactment intimately with the BCCI and the IPL arsenic the concern develops.'

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