England have omitted Brydon Carse from their squad for the third and final Test against Pakistan at Edgbaston.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old Durham seamer was dropped<\/a> for the second Test at Lord’s after he was briefly arrested following an incident outside a Derby nightclub on 22 August.<\/p>\n Derbyshire police are continuing to investigate an allegation of assault<\/a> in connection with that incident.<\/p>\n Carse’s replacement, 23-year-old Sonny Baker, has retained his place in England’s 15-man party.<\/p>\n Surrey’s Matthew Fisher has been dropped from an otherwise unchanged England squad as they seek to complete a series clean-sweep over Pakistan.<\/p>\n The third Test in Birmingham starts on Wednesday, 9 September at 11:00 BST.<\/p>\n With six white-ball matches against Sri Lanka to follow the Test series, England may consider resting seamers Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson and Josh Tongue, all of whom feature in the limited-overs set-up.<\/p>\n While the trio have been named in the Test squad, they may be rotated in favour of Baker, Essex pace bowler Sam Cook and Derbyshire spinner Shoaib Bashir.<\/p>\n Cook, 29, played his one Test against Zimbabwe last summer while 22-year-old Bashir is yet to feature in this series, with England preferring an all-pace attack.<\/p>\n Baker made his only Test appearance to date in a much-changed line-up<\/a> against New Zealand at The Oval in June.<\/p>\n Carse remains available for selection<\/a> for Durham and finished with match figures of 4-95 in their win over Gloucestershire last week.<\/p>\n However, he has not been picked in the XI for their match against Northamptonshire, which started on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Pakistan made the extraordinary move of dropping seven players,<\/a> calling up five uncapped players and releasing their head coach prior to the Edgbaston Test.<\/p>\n Sarfaraz Ahmed has replaced by Pakistan white-ball coach Mike Hesson, while Muhammad Rizwan, Imam-ul-Haq, Salman Ali Agha, Ali Usman and Khurram Shahzad, all of whom have featured in the series, are among the players dropped.<\/p>\n England beat Pakistan by an innings and 103 runs<\/a> in the first Test at Headingley and sealed series victory with a win by 194 runs<\/a> at Lord’s last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have omitted Brydon Carse from their squad for the third and final Test against Pakistan at Edgbaston.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-757920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}