Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler win annual England Test contracts; Jonny Bairstow snubbed again

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) recently released a list of ir centrally contracted players for both, i.e. ir Test match and limited-overs contracts. While youngsters like Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope and Dom Sibley won ir maiden Test contracts, wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow was omitted from list. Bairstow is currently in United Arab Emirates (UAE) to represent David Warner-led Hyderab side in ongoing Dream11 Indian Premier League 2020 (IPL 2020) season.

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Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler among Dream11 IPL 2020 stars in ECB’s Test and ODI contracts

Since his Test debut in 2012, Jonny Bairstow has played 70 Test matches for his country. While he last represented national side in tritional whites back in December 2019 against South Africa, 31-year-old missed out on England’s entire Test home season (series against West Indies and Pakistan) in 2020. Jonny Bairstow, however, has been included in ECB’s ODI and T20 contracts for 2020-21 season.

On or hand, cricketers like James Anderson, Stuart Bro, Joe Root were among players who found mselves in ECB’s Test contracts. Apart from aforementioned veterans, several Dream11 IPL 2020 stars like Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes and Sam Curran also me a cut into list. While Sam Curran is representing Chennai in ongoing Dream11 IPL 2020 season, cricketers like Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes are all teammates for Rajasthan franchise in ir campaign.

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ECB’s Test contract aside, ir ODI and T20I contracts includes as many as seven players who are in middle of ir Dream11 IPL 2020 commitments for ir respective franchises. Apart from Rajasthan trio of Jofra Archer, Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes, all-rounder Tom Curran is also in contract list. Or Dream11 IPL 2020 players included in ECB’s limited-overs contracts are Bangalore’s Moeen Ali, Hyderab’s Jonny Bairstow and Kolkata’s new recruit and England’s World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan.

A look at ECB’s entire Test match and ODI/T20I contracts

Test match contracts

James Anderson, Jofra Archer, Stuart Bro, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler, Zak Crawley, Sam Curran, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Dom Sibley, Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes.

ODI/T20I contracts

Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Tom Curran, Eoin Morgan, il Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes and Mark Wood.

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Rajasthan Dream11 IPL 2020 squ

Steve Smith (captain), Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra, Yashasvi Jaiswal, David Miller, Aniruddha Joshi, Ben Stokes, Riyan Parag, Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Robin Uthappa, Anuj Rawat, Shreyas Gopal, Shashank Singh, Rahul Tewatia, Mayank Markande, Jofra Archer, Varun Aaron, Ankit Rajpoot, Jaydev Unkat, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Tom Curran, Oshane Thomas and Akash Singh.

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