Joe Root has requested a one-off outing at Headingley in a bid to find his touch before take-off but this is the second-string side featuring four uncapped players in Sam Hain, Jamie Smith, George Scrimshaw and Tom Hartley. The question now is whether this next generation will be Star Trek or Saved by the Bell as regards rebooting the franchise.
Even as a stand-in for Jos Buttler, Crawley's ascent to the captaincy is noteworthy, coming at the end of a summer in which a new level was reached with his Ashes performances. After the World Cup comes a white-ball tour of the Caribbean in December, a trip in which we may well see the rookies deployed again and the 25-year-old asked to lead.
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