take an indefinite break from red-ball cricket<\/a> to focus on the white-ball game, thereby ruling himself out of this winter’s Ashes series.<\/p>\nHe has played six ODIs for England, most recently against West Indies at Edgbaston in May when he made just a single with the bat but then took 3-22 in a crushing 238-run win.<\/p>\n
Overton’s return is the only change for England, which means there is continuing backing for all-rounders Jacob Bethell and Will Jacks – plus possibly Joe Root – to collectively split the workload of a fifth bowler rather than picking a specialist.<\/p>\n
Bethell and Jacks bowled 10 overs between them at Lord’s at the cost of 112 runs, but white-ball skipper Harry Brook has previously spoken of the benefit of batting deep, and England have resisted the temptation to tweak the structure of the side.<\/p>\n
Opener Ben Duckett has also been named in England’s XI for the match against the Proteas at Utilita Bowl, even though it is a dead rubber with the tourists 2-0 up.<\/p>\n
Duckett looked sufficiently jaded in the first two ODIs to be pulled from next week’s T20 series against the same opponents.<\/p>\n
England assistant coach Marcus Trescothick said Duckett will benefit from the opportunity to recharge the batteries after Sunday’s match.<\/p>\n
“We need certain players to be firing and Ben is certainly one of those,” Trescothick told a news conference.<\/p>\n
“At this point in time, this [break] is the best way to maximise performances going forward as we head into a big winter. This is a good opportunity for Ben to get a bit of rest.<\/p>\n
“We need the boys firing going into November, December, January. That’s not to say things aren’t important coming up, but sometimes you just have to take your foot off the gas a bit and rejuvenate the mind. Then you can get back on the horse and crack on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Overton has been recalled to England’s team for the third and final one-day international against South Africa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-124121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}