Harry Brook has been appointed England’s new ODI and T20 captain leaving Ben Stokes to concentrate on his Test team’s Ashes tilt when he recovers from injury.
Brook, 26, was Jos Buttler’s vice-captain in the final months of his frustrating three-year reign, and has now been confirmed as his successor.
Rob Key, England’s managing director, said when Buttler stepped down that England would be “stupid” not to consider Test captain Stokes as his successor, despite him not playing an ODI since November 2023 or a T20 since November 2022.
But, in the autumn of his career with injuries mounting, he has been left to concentrate on the Test team in a year that features five-Test series at home to India and away to Australia.