“We bring him back in and drop one of those guys down, then it would be someone else upset as well. As expected, Stokes has also been included in the one-day party but with an asterisk against his name. Morgan has welcomed Stokes’s return to cricket in New Zealand as a “good decision”. “He has started to hit balls this week and there is only so much you can get indoors banging bowling machine balls,” Morgan said. Morgan’s side begin their five-match one-day series against Australia, the current world champions, at the MCG on 14 January, with fixtures in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide before the final match opens Perth’s new Burswood stadium on 28 January.

Source: The Guardian December 06, 2017 21:56 UTC