{"id":900303,"date":"2026-09-21T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900303\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:04:11","slug":"harry-brook-england-white-ball-captain-says-brydon-carse-needs-time-away-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900303\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Brook: England white-ball captain says Brydon Carse needs time away from international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leg-spinner Adil Rashid will miss the opener to the three-match series against Sri Lanka because of a hand injury.<\/p>\n

With Jacob Bethell already absent following knee surgery, Tom Banton will open the batting.<\/p>\n

England hammered the tourists 3-0 in a one-sided T20 series<\/a> last week. Brook’s team have been superb in the shortest format, winning 23 of their past 26 completed internationals.<\/p>\n

But the next global tournament is the 50-over World Cup in southern Africa in October and November 2027, and Brook said that 50-over cricket will now be given priority.<\/p>\n

“Naturally it does, with the World Cup being next year,” said Brook. <\/p>\n

“That’s not saying we’re taking anything away from T20 cricket at all, because we’re absolutely flying in that format at the minute.<\/p>\n

“With the World Cup being just around the corner, and now we’ve solidified qualification, we can really start to home in on what the squad and XI is.”<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s game in Durham will be England’s first ODI since adding Kevin Pietersen to their backroom staff.<\/a><\/p>\n

Former England batter Pietersen has been recruited as a mentor for the build-up to the 50-over World Cup. On Monday, he began the hosts’ training with a session on how to play spin bowling.<\/p>\n

Brook’s side are now on a diet of white-ball cricket up to the Test tour of South Africa in December.<\/p>\n

Before then, and following the conclusion of the series against Sri Lanka on Sunday, they travel to Pakistan in October for a one-day tri-series that also includes the Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n

In November, England are in Australia for three ODIs and five T20s against their Ashes rivals.<\/p>\n

The T20 series in Australia finishes a week before England’s sole warm-up game in South Africa. <\/p>\n

Because of the tight turnaround, some of the multi-format fast bowlers are likely to be rested for the T20s in Australia, meaning a break for the likes of Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue, Gus Atkinson and possibly Sonny Baker.<\/p>\n

The squads for the tours of Pakistan and Australia are set to be named next week, along with a new batch of central contracts. The group to tour South Africa for Fleming’s first series in charge will come in October.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jonathan Trott has been named England Lions head coach for their winter tours of West Indies, South Africa and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Former England batter Trott’s four-year spell in charge of Afghanistan came to an end in February.<\/p>\n

A contender for the England Test job before Fleming was appointed in July, Trott replaces Andrew Flintoff, who stepped down in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leg-spinner Adil Rashid will miss the opener to the three-match series against Sri Lanka because of a hand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-900303","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\/900303","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=900303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}