Stephan Shemilt

And so to take this full circle around the entire culture about not just England and what they might do going forward and curfews and improving behaviours and therefore improving your attitude towards on-field performance and what you do in order to be fully prepared,

Well, maybe the entire sport of cricket, and you'll know this as well, Kev, from the time that you spend around county cricket and everything that goes with that.

Well, I would say that, I don't know, cricket might be 20 or 30 years behind other sports in the way that it goes about things off the field.

Yeah, so the batting is basically the test batting, isn't it, plus Joss Butler.

Zach Crawley gets a chance to open.

I think it'll be his ninth one-day international more than two years after his previous game.

Jamie Smith is the man who's been dropped from that squad.

England are looking for a 50-over opener, looking for one from a county game that doesn't really play 50-over cricket.

So they've turned to the other test opener to partner England.

Ben Duckett.

For the bowling, five spin options, I think I counted there, if you include Joe Root.

Sam Curran and Jamie Overton as the seamers.

Well, it's interesting that Sam Curran is in there, considering that for such a long time he was sort of left out in the cold of the White Bulls set-up, but he's now fully back and embraced in there.

I guess Joffre Archer would be in that team if he was here earlier.

and available but he's still recovering from that side strain and England say he's on track to be available for the T20 World Cup but England need some wins in one day cricket if they're going to qualify automatically for the 2027 World Cup there's sort of a dual purpose to this tour of Sri Lanka to get themselves ready for the T20 World Cup but to get some wins in one day cricket because they do not want to be missing out on automatic qualification and then going through a qualification tournament somewhere in the world