استقر الجهاز الفني للفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي الزمالك بقيادة البرتغالي جوزيه جوميز، على دكة بدلاء الأبيض في مباراة اليوم أمام المصري البورسعيدي، التي ستجمع بينهما ببطولة الدوري الممتاز.

ويتواجه الزمالك مع المصري، على أرضية استاد برج العرب في الإسكندرية، ضمن منافسات الجولة 26 من عمر مباريات بطولة الدوري.

ويحتل الزمالك، المركز الحادي عشر في جدول ترتيب الدوري المصري الممتاز، برصيد 31 نقطة من 18 مباراة، ولهُ 7 مباريات مؤجلة. طالع أيضاً.. تشكيل الزمالك أمام المصري في الدوري.. ثلاثي هجومي

على الجانب الآخر، يحتل فريق المصري المركز الثاني برصيد 39 نقطة، من 24 مباراة، فاز في 11 مباراة وتعادل في 6 وخسر 7 مواجهات. بدلاء الزمالك أمام المصري في الدوري

محمود الشناوي وياسر حمد وسيد عبد الله “نيمار” ومحمد أشرف “روقا” وسيف جعفر ومحمد السيد وأحمد عبد الرحيم “إيشو” وترافيس موتيابا ويوسف أوباما.

While it’s been about six and a half years since he left, Arsène Wenger will always be integral to Arsenal’s identity.

The French icon joined the club as a relative unknown from the Japanese side Nagoya Grampus Eight in 1996 and transformed the club and English football as a whole.

He delivered domestic glory to the Gunners and gave platforms for legends like Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Robert Pires to thrive.

However, as with all great managers, he also made some mistakes, including the decision to sell a certain youngster in 2016 who is now worth millions more than the fee he left for.

Arsenal's notable signings in 2016

Before we get to the player in question, it’s worth looking at some of the other notable signings Arsenal made in 2016, starting with the controversial Granit Xhaka.

The Swiss international completed his £35m move to the Gunners in May, and over the next seven seasons, would go from a villain who threw the captain’s armband to the floor under Unai Emery to a beloved fan favourite who the Emirates serenaded during his final season under Mikel Arteta.

In all, the former Borussia Mönchengladbach star made 297 appearances for the North Londoners, scoring 23 goals, providing 29 assists and winning two FA Cups.

In the same summer, the club spent around £17m on Spanish striker Lucas Perez, but unlike Xhaka, the then-27-year-old would leave little to no impact on the club.

In fact, the A Coruña-born poacher would only spend a year with the Gunners, in which he scored seven goals and provided five assists, before being loaned back to Deportivo La Coruna and for the following campaign and then being sold for £4m to West Ham United in the summer of 2018.

However, the departure of another attacker in the summer he arrived proved far more consequential.

The international star Arsenal must rue selling

While the likes of Arteta retired, Tomas Rosicky was sold, and Wojciech Szczęsny was sent out on another loan to Roma in 2016, the sale that Arsenal must regret the most was of a 21-year-old winger who’d go on to be a world-beater: Serge Gnabry.

The German winger joined the Gunners’ youth set-up in 2011, and after several years of impressive performances for the academy sides, he started to make a few appearances for the first team between the 12/13 and 13/14 campaigns, 18 to be exact.

However, in the summer of 2015, he was sent on loan to West Bromwich Albion, where then-boss Tony Pulis famously claimed he wasn’t “at that level to play the games” for the Baggies, which saw him return to the Emirates in February 2016.

However, with Wenger not playing him for the rest of the season, he was sold to Werder Bremen for around £4m in August 2016.

The Stuttgart-born dynamo was an instant hit in Bremen, and after racking up 11 goals and two assists in 27 appearances, agreed to join Bayern Munich for around £7m, who immediately sent him on loan to Hoffenheim for the 17/18 season, where he produced 18 goal involvements in 27 games.

Team

Bremen

Hoffenheim

Bayern

Appearances

27

26

265

Goals

11

10

90

Assists

2

7

56

Goal Involvements per Match

0.48

0.65

0.55

The following year saw him integrate into FC Hollywood’s first team, and almost eight years later, he’s made 265 appearances, in which he’s scored 90 goals, provided 56 assists and won everything there is to win in the club game, including five league titles and the Champions League.

This incredible rise has also seen the valuation of the player talent scout Jacek Kulig once dubbed a “future legend”, explode, with Football Transfers now pricing him at up to €38.5m, which is about £32m, or 700% more than the price Arsenal sold him for.

Ultimately, hindsight is a wonderful thing, and picking the right youngsters to invest in is notoriously tricky, but we can’t help but wonder how Arsenal would have looked over the last few years had they been able to keep hold of Gnabry in 2016.

Signed by Emery: Arsenal hit gold on "unplayable" ace now worth 1300% more

The incredible talent could do great things with Arsenal.

1 ByJack Salveson Holmes Feb 18, 2025

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O Corinthians novamente foi condenado na Justiça Trabalhista a pagar um ex-jogador do clube. Dessa vez o autor da ação foi William Machado, que cobrou nos tribunais valores referentes a direitos de arena entre 2008 e 2010. A quantia total é de quase R$ 3 milhões e o processo está em fase de cálculos. A informação foi publicada primeiramente pelo GE e confirmada pelo LANCE!.

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Da parte do Timão, há o reconhecimento da sentença, mas ainda está no aguardo para a revisão dos valores que atualmente está emR$ 2.977.593,77, sendo que quase metade é por conta de juros de mora (R$ 1.459,187,97).

O processo foi aberto em 2014 e somente neste mês teve uma conclusão, mas discussão dos cálculos se deu pois o Corinthians apresentou um valor devido abaixo daquele que William cobrou inicialmente. Em posse das duas contas,a juíza Maria Cristiana Christianni Trentini decidiu suspender a homologação da quantia para que as partes possam chegar a um valor de consenso.

Em entrevista para a reportagem do GE, William Machado explicou o que o levou a procurar a Justiça para obter os valores devidos pelo Corinthians.

-Nunca quis nada em toda minha vida que não fosse meu de direito. Entendi que no caso do direito de Arena a lei constitucional era clara quanto a 20% enquanto o jurídico do clube entendia que 5%, do acordo feito com um Sindicato, deveria prevalecer. A última coisa que gostaria era ter que recorrer à Justiça para uma definição de qual lado estava correto. Como a divergência permaneceu não me restou outra saída e, após 10 anos aguardando, a Justiça entendeu que eu tenho esse direito baseado na Constituição – disse o ex-atleta.

William jogou pelo Timão entre 2008 e 2010, quando se aposentou. Nesse período, ele foi campeão Brasileirão da Série B, campeão paulista e da Copa do Brasil. Todas as conquistas coram como capitão do time alvinegro.

Steve Rixon’s contract expires in June, but he will complete his ongoing assignment with Pakistan on their tour to Ireland and England

Umar Farooq05-May-2018Pakistan fielding coach Steve Rixon has decided not to renew his contract ahead of the 2019 World Cup. Rixon’s contract expires in June, but he will complete his ongoing assignment with Pakistan on their tour to Ireland and England.Rixon, 64, decided not to renew his contract due to personal reasons, which included spending more time with his family, according to a senior official in the PCB. The contracts of the rest of Pakistan’s coaching staff run until the 2019 World Cup.Rixon was brought into the Pakistan set-up in 2016 alongside head coach Mickey Arthur, replacing Grant Luden, who was relieved of his roles as trainer and fielding coach under former head coach Waqar Younis. Luden has since been working with Pakistan as a fitness trainer. Rixon was also part of Arthur’s coaching staff with Australia between 2011 and 2014. During his tenure with Australia, Rixon had various positions, including fielding coach, spin-bowling coach and assistant coach.The PCB haven’t begun the process of finding a successor for their next assignment, against Zimbabwe in August. There is also a chance Luden could be tasked with replacing Rixon.ESPNcricinfo understands Rixon met PCB chairman Najam Sethi a fortnight ago to agree terms for the renewal of his contract, which ends this summer. At the time, the PCB and Rixon came to terms, with his contract extended, and his retainer increased. However, yesterday Rixon decided he was unwilling to stay on, unhappy with living away from his family.In the last few years, Pakistan’s fielding has made considerable improvement under Rixon, particularly in the white-ball formats. Fielding has been a major part of Pakistan’s increased focus on improving the level of players’ fitness over the last three years.

Sussex fast bowler insists that the dream of playing Test cricket for England remains his ultimate ambition but a lot can happen before 2022

Andrew Miller04-Apr-20183:50

‘Still can’t believe so many teams bid for me’ – Archer

Jofra Archer insists that the dream of playing Test cricket for England remains his ultimate ambition, but admits that a life-changing winter on the global T20 circuit may eventually force him to reassess his priorities in a bid to avoid burn-out.For the past two years in county cricket, Archer has been quietly recognised as the Next Big Thing, ever since breaking into Sussex’s first team midway through the 2016 season. But it was during his stint with the Hobart Hurricanes in the recent Big Bash that he shot to global prominence, consistently pushing 145kph in claiming 16 wickets at 23.06, as his team finished runners-up to Adelaide Strikers in this year’s final.Off the back of those performances – which also included some breathtaking moments of all-round skill, such as two incredible run-outs and a nonchalantly brilliant one-handed return catch off Brisbane Heat’s Ben Cutting – Archer was snapped up for GBP 800,000 by Rajasthan Royals in this year’s IPL.”It is life-changing,” Archer told ESPNcricinfo at Hove, ahead of his departure for India. “I’ll be able to buy my own home, and change my family’s life as well.”It’s probably the biggest T20 competition outside of international cricket, and I can’t play international cricket at the moment, so it’s probably going to be the biggest challenge of my life so far. I just want to perform as well as I did in the Big Bash and take that form back to Sussex.”The reason that Archer cannot currently play international cricket is that he has opted to put his England ambitions ahead of those of his native West Indies. He turned 23 this week and is in the early stages of his seven-year residency qualification, which means that his availability for Test cricket won’t be until 2022 at the earliest.”I just want to tell them, be patient, I’m coming,” was Archer’s message for England’s Test supporters, who might see in his languid and athletic attributes the answer to their long-standing fast-bowling problems.”[My priorities] won’t change. I think Test cricket is the reason I tried to become a pro, I just hope that the time flies. If it is that I have to wait until 2022, I’m much happier doing what I’ve done this winter and seeing new places, so either way I’m not fussed about waiting.”Nevertheless, there’s a huge amount that could happen in Archer’s career between now and then, especially given the proliferation of the global T20 leagues. This winter alone, Archer has already featured in the Bangladesh Premier League, the Big Bash and the Pakistan Super League, and is set to embark on another packed county season with Sussex when he returns from the IPL at the end of May.”For me is about juggling cricket and my family time,” he said. “I’m in England for 210 days a year, and other franchise tournaments limit my family time, but family time is most important to me. If it is that it is going to cut into my family time, I may have to leave a tournament out.”My family keeps me grounded, keeps me sane,” he said. “I try not to be away for too long, it is very easy to be constantly on the go. l literally left Bangladesh [in December] and went to the Big Bash, within hours of it finishing. You can be here, there and everywhere in a matter of hours.”His next venture, however, promises to be a step into the unknown, as Archer makes his first foray into the IPL. He will at least have some familiar faces around him, with Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes making for a sizeable English contingent at the Royals, the Jaipur-based franchise which won the inaugural IPL in 2008.”Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of Jos over the winter,” Archer said. “He was in Bangladesh as well as the Big Bash. I don’t really like bowling to him so it’s really good to have him on my team. And Ben Stokes, he spoke to me as well, after the auction, it’s good to know I have support even before I go there.”One significant name who won’t be present for this season, however, is Australia’s captain, Steve Smith, who had been set to captain the Royals until his contract was terminated in the wake of the recent ball-tampering scandal.”The biggest key is not to let it get to you,” he said. “There’s hype in every tournament in whatever tournament you go to, but obviously with Steve Smith not being there now, that probably shifts some of the hype off of me, but I just want to stay clear of that, to be honest.”With his laid-back Bajan attitude, Archer doesn’t look like the type of guy to let fame and fortune go to his head. But he still remembers clearly the moment his life changed during the IPL auction,”We’d just finished one of the Big Bash games, I was a bit upset because we lost – it was the last prelim game and we had to hope that Renegades beat Brisbane Heat, and they did – but before that I was a bit upset. So I went into my room to watch the auction, and I still can’t believe that so many teams were bidding for me, and I still can’t believe I went for that much money.”One man who missed out this time around, however, was Archer’s Sussex team-mate, Tymal Mills, who was himself the stand-out tale of the 2017 auction when Royal Challengers Bangalore paid GBP1.4 million for his tearaway quick bowling. Though Mills is as phlegmatic about his situation as you could wish any player to be, his is a useful cautionary tale about the ups and downs of professional sport.”I haven’t really spoken to him too much about it as we were still playing at the time and I didn’t want to shift my focus from the Big Bash,” said Archer. “But this year the draft was a bit weird. Guys like Martin Guptill, T, even Chris Gayle didn’t get picked up in the first rounds. So I’m not too sure what the teams are looking for, really, but I just can’t wait to get out there and just do well.”Two years ago I was playing club cricket, then halfway through that club season I made my debut here with Sussex. And the rest is history really. Everything happens for a reason, I believe that, and I showed that this winter.”

Old Trafford on a diluvial Friday afternoon. The first day of the game between Lancashire and Surrey has just been abandoned. The normally well-attended Primary Schools’ Open Day has been limited to a Mascots’ Race and even that became a straight five furlongs on the outfield rather than the Chorlton Gold Cup.But if Manchester is conforming to its glum stereotype, the same cannot really be said of Surrey cricket these days. Officials at The Oval have striven mightily to demolish their reputation as metropolitan flash-Harrys who think they can build a team with a flourish of their cheque-book. Seven of the side which defeated Hampshire last Monday had come through the county’s Academy system, albeit the greying Rikki Clarke is more an Emeritus Fellow than an ambitious PhD. student.What is more, two of that heptad, Ollie Pope and Amar Virdi, played leading roles in what was a notable victory. In other words things are unfolding rather as Alec Stewart, Surrey’s director of cricket, has planned.”Since coming into this role I’ve wanted to bring Surrey players through,” said Stewart, who is beginning his fifth season in charge. “When I took over there were a lot of people who had been brought from outside but I believe we now have a nucleus of players who understand what Surrey is and what it means to play for Surrey. That rubs off on everyone and sends a clear message that we give our own an opportunity.””In the past we’ve been accused of being a cheque-book county and some of that was fair. Will we ever lose that tag? We’re trying but it is a question of people’s perceptions. Recently we’ve had a few who have come through as professionals and they are beginning to perform. There may be one or two years when we don’t have that quality but as a rough guide my aim is that 60% of our staff should have come through the Surrey system. That’s my challenge to the academy and age-group set up. And recently there have been some nice stories. Rory Burns first played for us as a nine-year-old, he’s now our captain.”But anyone who has run a first-class side knows it isn’t as simple as preferring local players. There are few things more dispiriting for younger players than the rhythm of defeat. Stewart judges people in such adversity because, “that’s when you see the true person” but sometimes it is necessary to recruit from overseas. Any county with the means to sign Kumar Sangakkara would have been daft not to.”I want to sign a top-class overseas player for what he can do out in the middle how they can help our players,” said Stewart. “Sangakkara was brilliant. Anyone batting with him for two hours in the middle learned a lot more than he would have done from having three months with a coach. Ben Foakes is the best example because and he and Sanga had a lot of good partnerships and now Ben’s batting has really kicked on.”It is, though, about so much more than talent. Cricket is revelatory of character and tests players in ways no other sport quite manages. And even when players seem to have emerged as fledged professionals they still need guarding.”I’m trying to protect our younger players in the same way that Alex Ferguson protected Ryan Giggs when he was perceived as a superstar at the age of 17,” said Stewart. “There is so much media and social media now that young players can start believing their own publicity. That’s the biggest concern but you can also have bad times as a young player, so we want to promote our own in a controlled way.”They need to understand this is just the start. They can be taken in and then spat out very quickly. All we are saying to them is keep your feet on the ground. There will be dips in the graph but we don’t want there to be crashes. I want people writing about our players in a nice way but I don’t want the players in a situation where they might come out with a quote which makes sense at the time but which will make them look silly six months down the line. As their careers grow their media coverage can grow.”Stewart knows many of his principles are also pursued elsewhere but applying them at Surrey presents its own challenges. It is important that the county does not miss players, whether they emerge via a more traditional public school route like Pope, who went to Cranleigh, or the more unconventional pathway trodden by Virdi, who attended the Guru Nanak Sikh Academy. And having identified a talent, Surrey will never prevent them coupling their cricket development with further education.”We have an excellent scouting system and I’m big on making sure we don’t miss players,” said Stewart. “And we will never tell a player not to go to university. We tell them cricket may not last for ever so get your education done. There are times when we don’t pick academy players because their A Levels are coming up. In gap years we might suggest they go to Australia and we will line them up with clubs and coaches we know and then get feedback on them.”When players go up a level and find there are other players as talented as them, some will work even harder to succeed and others will drop off because they don’t like the competition. You have to see if they will stand up in professional sport, which is cut-throat.”

West Ham United were beaten 3-1 for the second successive Premier League match as they were defeated by Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.

The Hammers, who were beaten by the same scoreline by Manchester City the previous weekend, were put to the sword by Jurgen Klopp's side.

Who scored in West Ham's defeat to Liverpool?

Mo Salah opened the scoring from the penalty spot as Nayef Aguerd's trip gave the referee an easy decision to make to award a spot-kick.

Jarrod Bowen brilliantly got in front of Virgil van Dijk to head in a cross from Vladimir Coufal into the bottom corner to make it 1-1 just before the break.

However, the Hammers were unable to hold on for a point as goals from Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota in the second half secured all three points for the home side.

There were a number of disappointing performances on the pitch for West Ham, including Aguerd who gave away the penalty, but one player who let David Moyes down with his display was Michail Antonio.

How did Michail Antonio perform against Liverpool?

The former Nottingham Forest attacker failed to provide his team with an effective focal point through the middle of the pitch as Van Dijk and Joel Matip dominated him throughout the match.

Antonio has won 42% of his Premier League duels this season across his six appearances in the division but Liverpool did not allow him to use his physicality to hold the ball up for West Ham.

As per Sofascore, the experienced marksman lost a staggering 12 of his 16 duels (75%) and all six of his aerial contests during his 74 minutes on the pitch before Moyes opted to substitute him for Mohammed Kudus, who went on to win two of his three battles on the ground.

These statistics show that the two Liverpool central defenders found it far too easy to get the better of the 33-year-old striker, which meant that the Hammers were not able to retain possession as well as they would have hoped.

As a result of his lack of physicality against Van Dijk and Matip, Antonio ended his time on the pitch with just 23 touches of the ball in total, which was dismally fewer than his goalkeeper – Alphonse Areola – had in between the sticks (39) which illustrated how much he struggled in possession.

Instead of being a driving force for his team at the top end of the pitch, the ex-Sheffield Wednesday ace had less influence in his side's play on the ball than his goalkeeper.

The West Ham number nine only completed five passes, out of seven attempted, and missed a 'big chance' with the touches that he did have, showing that Antonio failed to get involved in the game with regularity and wasted the only presentable opportunity that came his way in front of goal.

Unfortunately, the striker certainly let his manager down at Anfield on Sunday and Moyes will now be hoping that the Jamaica international can quickly put this performance behind him ahead of the next Premier League match against Sheffield United next weekend.

Glasgow Rangers suffered their second consecutive defeat in midweek, losing 2-1 to Aris Limassol in the Europa League.

It was the culmination of one of the worst weeks in the clubs recent history, having lost to Aberdeen last weekend before Michael Beale was sacked as manager on Sunday evening.

Steven Davis was placed in interim charge for the European tie and the upcoming match against St Mirren, but even he couldn’t get a tune out of this group of players, who in all honesty, look lost.

The Paisley outfit are riding high in the Premiership at the moment, currently occupying second spot, three points ahead of the Light Blues and if the players turn in another abject performance like they did against the Cypriot side, it will be yet another defeat.

Davis should be making a few changes ahead of this afternoon's tie, with Scott Wright surely dropping from the starting XI to a spot on the bench after a woeful display.

How did Scott Wright perform vs Aris Limassol?

The winger looked like he was close to departing the Ibrox side following two and a half years in Glasgow, yet a move to Turkey fell through, and he chose to fight for his space in the first team.

With an injury crisis engulfing the squad, Wright was chosen to start on the right wing in midweek yet offered no real threat going forward.

Indeed, he achieved the lowest Sofascore rating out of any Rangers player (6.2), while completing just 18 successful passes during his 84 minutes on the pitch, with only one of these being a key pass.

The Scot succeeded with just one dribble out of six attempts, was successful with zero crosses and lost possession 16 times during his spell on the pitch, hardly the performance of a player who is looking to make an impact.

Davis would be far better by unleashing a youngster like Ross McCausland in his space today, as he would certainly offer more going forward.

Does Scott Wright have a future at Rangers?

The 26-year-old has made just five appearances so far this season, registering zero goals or assists while starting just twice, and he has failed to contribute anything meaningful in these ties.

Across his two league matches, Wright has an average match rating of 6.25 while he has created zero big chances and averaged just 0.5 key passes per game, suggesting he isn’t the answer for the Gers on the right wing.

With the Light Blues searching for a new manager, it looks as though there will be another overhaul of the squad and Wright may certainly be one of the first players to go.

He will be remembered for his goal to clinch the Scottish Cup in 2022, yet he clearly isn’t of the required standard to take the Gers to the next level.

With a tough tie against St Mirren awaiting this afternoon, Davis has a big decision to make regarding his starting Xi, but Wright shouldn’t be anywhere near it that’s for sure.

Wolverhampton Wanderers are under pressure to keep hold of an integral first-team player, with a fresh report revealing that he's being targeted by clubs both overseas and in the Premier League.

Who have Wolves signed in 2023?

Over the summer, Gary O’Neil’s side recruited eight fresh faces in the form of Matheus Cunha signing permanently, Jean Ricner-Bellegarde, Santiago Bueno, Boubacar Traore and Enso Gonzalez, whilst Matt Doherty and Tom King joined on free transfers, alongside Tommy Doyle who put pen to paper on loan from Manchester City.

The Old Gold made space in the squad for those new recruits by sanctioning the exits of 20 players in total, as Ruben Neves, Matheus Nunes and Raul Jimenez were some of the biggest names to leave for good, and whilst that window has now closed, another huge star could be set to depart in January.

At Molineux, Pedro Neto first arrived back in 2019 from Braga and the right-winger has since gone on to make 118 senior appearances to date, but despite having another four years remaining on his contract, there’s a possibility that he could be heading for the exit.

The Portugal international has firmly established himself as the manager’s overall best-performing player so far this season with a WhoScored match rating of 7.19, and the 23-year-old’s impressive displays have therefore caught the eye of potential suitors.

Is Pedro Neto leaving Wolves?

According to 90min, Arsenal had "scouts in attendance" to watch Neto during Wolves' 2-1 victory over Manchester City on Saturday. The Gunners are "keeping track" of the progress of the attacker and are "long-term admirers", but they aren't alone in their pursuit with Aston Villa, Atletico Madrid and clubs in the Saudi Pro League all wanting to secure his services in January.

How many goals has Pedro Neto scored?

In the Premier League this season, Neto so far has five contributions (four assists and one goal) to his name in seven appearances, with this recent positive form having seen him dubbed a “baller” by football talent scout Jacek Kulig.

The Gestifute client also poses a threat even when the ball doesn’t hit the back of the net having recorded 49 crosses and 28 shot-creating actions this campaign, with both of these statistics being higher than any of his fellow teammates, via FBRef.

Furthermore, O’Neil’s £50k-per-week earner is a versatile operator having been deployed in six different positions over the pitch since the start of his career, including everywhere across the frontline and two roles in the midfield, making him a wonderful option to have in the building should any unexpected injuries occur where cover may be needed.

According to Football Insider, Wolves have no intention of sanctioning the sale of Neto in January which will be music to the ears of supporters, and whilst it would be hard to turn down a respectable offer should one arrive, the hierarchy need to do everything they can to retain his services, at least until the end of the current term.

Jos Buttler has been rested for England’s ODI against Scotland next month while Liam Plunkett returns to the squad for that match and the series against Australia. A hamstring injury had ruled Plunkett out of the matches against New Zealand.Captain Eoin Morgan is expected to be fit for the start of England’s one-day season despite fracturing a finger playing for Middlesex, and coach Trevor Bayliss made the recommendation to rest Buttler for the Scotland match on June 10.Sam Billings, the Kent captain, takes Buttler’s place although it is yet to be confirmed whether he or Jonny Bairstow will keep wicket. However, when the pair previously played in the same side last year against Ireland in the absence of Buttler it was Billings who was given the gloves.

England one-day squads

Scotland ODI Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Billings, Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood
Australia series Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Tom Curran, Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood

The two squads reinforce the stellar performances of the one-day side, which has risen to No. 1 in the world, in stark contrast to the dismal fortunes of the Test team of late. With a year to go until the World Cup, the majority of the 14 players named for the Australia are nailed on for the tournament – the final squad for the event will be 15 names.Plunkett, who has become a key part of England’s bowling plans in the middle overs, missed the one-day series in New Zealand after a recurrence of the hamstring injury he sustained in Australia. His absence was notable as, though England secured an impressive 3-2 series win against New Zealand, the quick bowlers struggled to make an impact in the middle chunk of the innings. They took three wickets at 117.33 and conceded 5.96 per over between overs 11 and 40.Tom Curran was the beneficiary of Plunkett’s injury and has been retained the squad for the Australia although will not be part of the Scotland fixture. Craig Overton, who earned a call-up as Plunkett’s replacement but did not feature in the series, does not make either squad.One of the selection conundrums in deciding the final XI will be the opening combination. Bairstow has cemented his spot at the top of the order having made 761 in 15 innings since taking the role against West Indies last year. That has included four centuries including back-to-back tons against New Zealand in March.For the majority of that time his opening partner has been Jason Roy but since making his England-record 180 against Australia in Melbourne Roy hasn’t passed fifty. Alex Hales returned to the opening role when Roy was injured for the deciding ODI against New Zealand in Christchurch and hit 61 in an opening stand of 155 in 20 overs. In the final outcome, Hales’ weaker fielding may count against him