Will Jacks mentioned Ashes Squad with new vice-captain Harry Brook in England’s Ashes

Will Jacks has been set up as Ashes Wildcard in England, promoted Harry Brook to test vice-captain prior to the long-awaited winter tour.

Jacks was largely seen as a White-Ball specialist during his international career and won his only two test hoods in Pakistan almost three years ago, but was given the last place in a 16-man team that travels to Australia with De Hoop to reclaim the urn for the first time since 2015.

As expected, Schipper Brook jumped to Ben Stokes with a limited previous previous, Ollie-Paus, with Pope, who is now probably locked up in a fight with Jacob Bethell for the number three place.

Chris Woakes was not taken into account for selection because of the disrupted shoulder he suffered from India at the end of the summer.

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Power-hitting

Jacks is best known for its power sheet in short cricket, but the 26-year-old all-rounder is effectively selected as a backup off-spinner of Shoaib Bashir, which excludes Jack Leach, Liam Dawson and Rehan Ahmed.

The vast majority of the team was played in stone, with England reinstalled their team with this series in mind more than a year ago, but director Rob Key and head coach Brendon McCullum’s habit to jump surprise interviews has been beaten again.

Jacks took six wickets in Rawalpindi during his test debut in December 2022, did not add that count in his next performance in Multan and seemed to slip completely from the plans of the red ball of England.

Repair

In the intervening period, England chose Leach, Ahmed, Bashir, Dawson and Tom Hartley to fill their slow vacancies, even to drag Ali from retirement to connect an opening during the Ashes of 2023.

Now, after just three first -class performances and five wickets for Surrey in the Rothesay County Championship of this season, Jacks is again in battle.

He is currently providing a broken finger, detected during the recent T20 trip to Ireland and will miss the pre-Aas Tour through New Zealand to complete his recovery.

Fitness problems

He is neither a beginner nor a banker when it comes to bowling, with a career of 49 first class Wickets at 42.22 and a total of 15 in the formats for his country.

His fielding and ball-Trapping would both be a considerable upgrade on Bashir, if form or fitness means that a change is needed, but McCullum has already made it clear that the last one of the team remains.

The last fast bowling place, reserved for Jamie Overton until he decided to leave Red-Ball Cricket earlier this month, goes to Matthew Potts from Durham.

The seamer won the last of his 10 test caps in New -Zeeland last December, but gives a physically robust element to an attack with his share in fitness issues.

Mark Wood is in the team despite missing the entire English summer with a knee injury, colleague Quick Jofra Archer is only two tests in his long comeback after four years of setbacks and the ability of Stokes to play a complete role with the ball is in the air after his recent shoulder problems.

Veteran

Josh Tongue, Gus Atkinson and Brydon Carse complete the bowling group.

That means no place for veteran Woakes, who was always present in the recent battles with India, but ended his hope on a last Australian adventure when he destroyed his shoulder in the field.

His courage in hitting with one hand in a pendulum to try to guarantee the series at the Kia Oval, is now the last act of the 36-year-old test career.

The Ashes Squad of England: B Stokes (C), H Brook (VC), J Archer, G Atkinson, S Bashir, J Bethell, B Carse, Z Crawley, B Duckett, W Jacks, O Pope, M Potts, J Root, J Smith (WKT), M Wood.

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