Jamie Overton
Jamie Overton and Lewis Gregory of Somerset have a good time. (Photograph by Harry Trump/Getty Photos)

Jamie Overton has earned a call-up within the England squad for the third and ultimate Take a look at match of the sequence towards New Zealand, which is scheduled to start on June 23, Thursday. He can be becoming a member of his twin brother Craig Overton after a formidable efficiency with the ball throughout his stint within the County Championship division one for Surrey.

The uncapped participant has managed to scalp 21 wickets for his aspect up to now, which helped him to earn a spot in England’s Take a look at squad. The 28-year-old, whose profession has been suffering from harm, was named in England’s ODI workforce in 2013 however is but to play worldwide cricket. Jamie is the only real newcomer to the squad picked for the ultimate Take a look at, and could be raring to share the dressing room together with his brother.

The brothers have performed towards one another throughout County video games, and never too way back, Craig was hit by Jameis’ bouncer through the match between Somerset and Surrey. The previous suffered a concussion due the identical. No twins have ever performed worldwide cricket for England, and the file is more likely to be maintained given Craig’s absence from the primary two video games towards New Zealand.

The duo has an opportunity of taking part in within the third and ultimate Take a look at because the floor at Leeds is more likely to assist the pacers, and the 2 have nice potential of constantly clocking their deliveries at a velocity. Jamie is relatively the quicker one as he has hit 145 kmph constantly this season. Talking of expertise and reliability, Craig is forward of Jamie. The previous has 402 First-Class wickets to his identify, whereas the latter has 206 wickets.

England overpowered the Kiwis to win the Take a look at sequence

Talking of the present scenario of the sequence, England marked their return to Take a look at cricket in nice fashion as they defeated the present World Take a look at Champions within the first two matches to win the sequence and take a lead of 2-0. England had managed to win only one out of 17 Exams that that they had performed earlier than assembly the Kiwis. England have now entered a brand new period of Take a look at cricket beneath the brand new skipper Ben Stokes and new head coach Brendon McCullum.

England squad for the third Take a look at:

Ben Stokes (c), James Anderson, Jonathan Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Harry Brook, Zak Crawley, Ben Foakes (wk), Jack Leach, Alex Lees, Craig Overton, Jamie Overton, Matthew Potts, Ollie Pope, Joe Root

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