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Somerset batter James Rew has been known as as much as the England squad for this month’s one-off Check towards Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge.
The uncapped 21-year-old, who this week grew to become the youngest Englishman since Denis Compton in 1939 to succeed in 10 first-class centuries, replaces the injured Jordan Cox, the England and Wales Cricket Board has introduced.
Cox suffered a facet pressure final weekend while within the strategy of scoring a century in Essex‘s Rothesay County Championship loss to Rew’s Somerset.
It’s a first senior call-up for wicketkeeper Rew, a left-hander who has loved an excellent begin to the season with the bat. He’s at the moment averaging 54.21 and has scored two centuries, together with a match-winning 116 towards Essex.
He has beforehand performed for England Underneath-19s and toured Australia with the Lions final winter.
It’s the second time Cox has been denied a possible England debut by harm having additionally been pressured to tug out of the squad to face New Zealand final yr with a damaged thumb.
England face Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge from Might 22.
