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19-Aug-2014 02:45:00 GMT
India in England 2014

England Call up Hales for ODI Series

London: England have called up Nottinghamshire batsman Alex Hales for the one-day international series against India.

Hales, 25, averages 37.85 in 32 Twenty20 internationals for England, but has yet to play an ODI.

There is no place for all-rounder and limited-overs regular Ravi Bopara in the 15-man squad while paceman Stuart Broad, facing surgery on a longstanding knee injury, also misses out.

The five-match ODI series begins at Bristol on 25 August.

It will be followed by a T20 international at Edgbaston on 7 September.

England completed a 3-1 Test series win over India with an innings-and-244-run win at The Oval on Sunday.

 Aside from Broad, who will seek a specialist surgical opinion on his knee later this week, opener Sam Robson is the only player from the final Test XI not involved in the squad.

Pace bowler Steven Finn, who has not represented England in any format since last September but recently returned to the Test squad, is included, as is all-rounder Ben Stokes who was dropped after the second Test against India.

Despite the absence of Bopara, one-day regulars Eoin Morgan and James Tredwell retain their ODI places, as does left-arm seamer Harry Gurney who made his one-day debut earlier this season, but seamer Tim Bresnan and opener Michael Carberry are omitted, having been in the ODI squad against Sri Lanka in May and June.

Hales, who made his T20 debut in 2011, became the first England player to score a T20 century when he hit an unbeaten 116 off 64 balls to help beat Sri Lanka in the World Twenty20 in March.

 England now play only one-day and T20 cricket until April 2015. They face seven ODIs in Sri Lanka later this year, and a triangular ODI series against India and hosts Australia shortly before the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand gets under way in February 2015.

England one-day squad: Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Gary Ballance (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire, wk), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Harry Gurney (Nottinghamshire), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan (Sussex), Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), James Tredwell (Kent), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire).


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