I’ve done nothing wrong!

Jonny Bairstow feels he was dumped unfairly from Test team and now he wants his place back

Jonny Bairstow will today be handed the chance he craves to prove he still has an England test future — with gloves as well as bat. Bairstow, the odd man out in England’s red-ball winter, will be named in a 30-man training squad who will gather at the ageas Bowl next week to prepare for the three-test series against west indies that will launch this decimated summer.

and the yorkshireman wants to show ahead of selection for the first test on July 8 that it was harsh of England to drop him and hand the wicketkeeping gloves to Jos Buttler after last summer’s ashes.

‘red-ball cricket has been a massive part of my career and there’s no reason why that should change,’ said Bairstow (below).

‘i just want to play and i will keep all my options open. i hope my experience and success in red-ball cricket will stand me in good stead now.’

it was national selector Ed smith who prompted the switch to Buttler ahead of the tour of new Zealand and told Bairstow his best chance of getting back in was as a specialist batsman.

But the white- ball opener still wants an all-round test role. ‘i was disappointed at the time because my keeping stats were very good and i didn’t think i’d done anything wrong,’ said Bairstow. ‘the keeping was the part of my role that people questioned early on but they stopped talking about it over the last couple of years. you can only be judged on your recent performances and i like to think mine were good.’

Buttler is yet to cement his all-round role in tests but if Bairstow, 30, is to regain his place he will also have to fend off surrey’s Ben Foakes, Buttler’s understudy for the aborted tour of sri Lanka.

all three will be in the squad today and Bairstow will have his chance in the three- day intersquad game on July 1 before the party is cut back to an enlarged test group of around 22.

Most attention today will focus on the names of the supporting cast who will get their chance to impress in camp, with England set to give opportunities to a number of the players originally included among the 55 invited to return to individual training. the somerset fast-bowling twins Craig and Jamie overton will feature along with another fast bowler, olly stone. Essex’s Dan Lawrence, the batting star of the Lions trip to australia this winter, will be picked and there may be places for bowlers ollie robinson and richard Gleeson plus keeper-batsman James Bracey.