15 Englishmen playing in this year’s Big Bash
Several Big Bash teams will lose their English assets until the end of the KFC BBL | 11 finals after being called home by the ECB.
A number of KFC BBL clubs are rushing to find players to fill the vacancy after England and the Wales Cricket Board called up members of their T20I team ahead of a trip to the West Indies later this month.
Six players, including Sam Billings of Sydney Thunder and Saqib Mahmood, were called up to England's T20I squad late last month, but were expected to miss only their usual last season (and any finals), and the England were to meet in the T20I. UK on January 15 on a flight to Barbados in a five-match series
But English importers have now been asked to return to the UK and enter residency alone before visiting on January 7th.
England's 16-man T20I squad includes Bills and Mahmood (Sydney Thunder), George Garton (Adelaide Strikers), Chris Jordan (back home) and James Vince (Sydney Sixers), Tymal Mills (Perth Scorchers) and Reece Topley (Melbourne). Apostates).
Sunday's game will be Billings and Mahmood's last appearance for the Sydney team - Garton selected as part of the X-factor for the Strikers in the same match - with Mills likely to sign when Perth defeated the Melbourne Stars earlier in the day.
Topley has been named in the Renegade squad for Monday's Melbourne derby, and it remains to be seen whether Vince will make it to the Sixers' final game on Tuesday before leaving.
England players Tom Abell and Ben Duckett (Brisbane Heat) Harry Brook and Jordan Thompson (Hobart Hurricanes) Joe Clarke (Melbourne Stars) Laurie Evans (Perth Scorchers) and Alex Hales (Sydney Thunder) have not been selected for the team and will be able to stay with their teams. in the BBL until the end of the season.
With the fifth Vodafone Ashes Test coming to an end in Hobart just four days before the first T20, no England player currently trying to return the urn to Australia has been considered for the top 20 squad.
Billings lost the most to the Thunder, beating 64 and 69 against the Heat and Scorchers late last month, while 24-year-old Mahmood, a fast bowler, held a 4-22 win in a stunning game against the Heat.
Vince also proven himself as Josh Philippe's awesome opening partner during the Sixers series BBL series.
The depth of the scorcher's bowling should hold up well to shut down Mills, and the Renegades will need to find another skipper to use in surgery once Topley is gone - however, that shouldn't be too much of a problem for Kane's boys. Richardson, James Pattinson and Mohammad Nabi on their list.
England will play the West Indies in five T20Is - all of which will be played at the Kensington Oval in Barbados - from January 22-30.
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