England name three uncapped players in revamped men's Test squad
5/13/202621 min
Nas and Ath are at the County Ground in Northampton to give their immediate reaction to England's revamped men's squad for the first Test against New Zealand.
They discuss Zak Crawley's omission, the three uncapped players who have been selected and chat about Marcus North being named England's new national selector.
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First 90 secondsNasser Hussain· Host0:00
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Michael Atherton· Host0:22
England's captain, Ben Stokes, while he is there, England have hope. [crowd cheering] [dramatic music] 15, uh, names there for the first test, which will be against New Zealand on June the 4th at Lord's. That was announced about 40 minutes ago at noon. Rob Key's actually gonna speak at 3:00 this afternoon, so we're talking before Rob Key does his Zoom call. He's gonna put a bit of flesh on the bone around the, the squad and the whys and the wherefores. So we're talking before we've heard him, so he may contradict now some of the things we're about to say. But what's your reflection overall on the 15? Let's just start with a general reflection.
Nasser Hussain· Host1:05
General reflection is probably you're gonna see a load of new names there in the squad, but actually when you get down to the 11 that we might see take the field for that first test, I reckon there'll be a change maybe with the opening batter. Well, there'll definitely be that because there's no Zak Crawley. But really you're seeing a side that's been together for quite some time. Emilio Gay, I think, will open at Lord's. James Rew