LONDON: Zak Crawley will captain England for the first time in the one-day series against Ireland as ECB has decided to rest almost the entire World Cup squad.
Crawley takes charge of a group containing four uncapped players.
Joe Root is set to play in the opener to the three-match series, on his home ground of Headingley today.
“If I can get runs and field well, that will help my captaincy a lot. That’s definitely on my mind,” said Crawley.
Opening batsman Crawley, 25, has played 39 Tests for England but has not broken into a very strong white-ball team who are world champions in both limited-overs formats.
His only previous three ODI caps came against Pakistan in 2021 as part of an entirely new squad after the initial party was ruled out because of a Covid outbreak.
