ENG vs WI 2024: England name playing XI for 3rd Test at Edgbaston

England Cricket. (Source – England Cricket)

Hosts England announced their playing XI a day ahead of the start of the final Test of the three-match series against the West Indies. After winning the first Test match by an innings and 114 runs at the iconic Lords, the Three Lions sealed the series in the next Test at Nottingham as they got the better of the Kraigg Brathwaite-led side and won the game by 241 runs.

After a couple of comprehensive victories, The Three Lions will look to whitewash the series at Edgbaston, Birmingham in the upcoming match, which gets underway on Friday, July 26.

Keeping confidence in the core line-up from the second game, England made no changes in their playing set-up for the upcoming encounter and are backing their winning combination to clean sweep the Windies.

West Indies will hope to register a win in the final Test

For the visitors, the upcoming Test will not hold so much importance but they might haunt the English side as they will come into the game with a nothing-to-lose attitude.

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Currently positioned at the bottom of the ICC World Test Championship 2023-2025 cycle, the Caribbean side will be hoping to get a win and push up their ranks, as they have managed to win just one match out of the six played so far.

On the other hand, the hosts will not only win the series but also move up in the tally. After their win in the second Test, Ben Stokes & Co. saw some changes in the points table and are now yet again in the hunt to solidify their position.

England Playing XI for 3rd Test vs West Indies:

Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (C), Jamie Smith (WK), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Mark Wood, Shoaib Bashir