Stokes in ODI squad

BEN STOKES has been picked by England for the five-match, 50- over series against New Zealand this month as the build-up continues to the 2019 World Cup.

Stokes’s involvement will be dependent on court obligations after he was charged with affray over an incident outside a Bristol nightclub, and no date has been set for his departure to New Zealand.

ENGLAND SQUAD: Morgan (capt), Moeen, Bairstow, Billings, Buttler, T Curran, Hales, Plunkett, Rashid, Root, Roy, Stokes, Willey, Woakes, Wood.