England Recall Curran For First South Africa T20

Sam Curran has been recalled to England's T20 broadside for nan first lucifer of nan bid against South Africa successful Cardiff connected Wednesday.

It is nan first clip nan all-rounder will characteristic nether caput coach Brendon McCullum, pinch his past quality against West Indies successful November 2024.

The 27-year-old was a belated call-up to nan squad aft a sparkling Hundred run for winners Oval Invincibles, arsenic he scored 238 runs and took 12 wickets.

England sorely missed a seam bowling all-rounder successful nan one-day world bid won 2-1 by nan Proteas, pinch spinners Jacob Bethell and Will Jacks sharing nan duties of nan 5th bowler.

Both are included successful nan XI, pinch Bethell down to bat astatine 3 and Curran astatine five, though England were elastic pinch their batting bid during nan ODIs arsenic nan left-hander was sent successful pinch nan purpose of targeting South Africa's left-arm spin.

Jamie Overton and Jofra Archer are nan different gait bowlers successful nan side, pinch leg-spinner Adil Rashid and left-arm spinner Liam Dawson besides included.

Opener Phil Salt besides returns aft he missed nan West Indies bid astatine nan opening of nan summertime for paternity leave.

England XI for first T20: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler (wk), Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook (capt), Sam Curran, Tom Banton, Will Jacks, Jamie Overton, Liam Dawson, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid.

England were level successful nan first 2 ODIs - peculiarly nan opening thrashing astatine Headingley, erstwhile they were bowled retired for 131 - but responded pinch a grounds triumph successful nan 3rd astatine Southampton.

Batters Ben Duckett and Jamie Smith person been rested for this bid while a new-look broadside will beryllium led by Bethell against Ireland astatine nan extremity of nan month, providing players specified arsenic Curran pinch different chance to impressment McCullum.

"I sat down pinch him precocious and asked him to bang down nan door, to unit his measurement into nan apical six and pinch his bowling ability," McCullum told Sky Sports aft nan ODI series.

"He is simply a very charismatic assets and it was conscionable a matter of putting successful performances to get himself backmost to wherever he needed to be.

"He was honest. He said he was wished to person a agelong world profession and adjacent play to him, he has banged it down."

Duckett and Smith were among those to play each 5 Tests against India earlier going consecutive to The Hundred and past nan ODIs.

England person a white-ball bid successful New Zealand earlier nan Ashes successful November, and look different tight turnaround pinch nan T20 World Cup taking spot successful India and Sri Lanka successful February - though nan schedule is yet to beryllium released.

"I tin only speak for myself but I evidently don't play Test cricket truthful I tin conscionable attraction connected nan white-ball broadside of things, I tin spell to New Zealand and past person a remainder truthful I'm caller for that World Cup," spinner Rashid told BBC Sport astir nan packed schedule.

"It's astir apt going to beryllium a spot of a situation for nan guys [playing each formats] but that's nan schedule.

"Everyone will beryllium up for it, nary huffing and puffing aliases nary complaining because we each cognize that's portion and parcel of cricket. We'll each beryllium raring to spell mentally and physically."

The first T20 starts astatine 18:30 BST connected Wednesday, pinch nan 2nd lucifer astatine Old Trafford connected Friday and nan finale astatine Trent Bridge connected Sunday.