England have named two 16-player squads, both led by Harry Brook, for a white-ball tour of Australia that opens with three ODIs before five T20Is, starting with the first ODI in Perth on November 13. The standout team-news items are the returns of Jacob Bethell and Jofra Archer, both of whom were missing from England's ODI tri-series squad in Pakistan last month.
Bethell was unavailable for the October tri-series in Pakistan and Sri Lanka because of a knee injury, and his return gives Brook back a batter who offers genuine left-arm spin as a bowling option too. Archer, who was rested for that tri-series purely to manage his workload after a heavy stretch across formats, is also back in both squads. Their reinclusion, alongside the senior spin pairing of Adil Rashid and Liam Dawson, gives England a notably fuller-strength look than the group that travelled to the subcontinent in October.
The T20I squad carries two uncapped names in Thomas Rew, 18, and Eddie Jack, both handed maiden call-ups to England's white-ball set-up. Phil Salt returns to open in the shorter format, and Luke Wood is recalled to the pace attack, giving the T20I group a slightly different look from the ODI squad beyond the core of Brook, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks and Joe Root.
England have been upfront about managing their fast bowlers through this trip. Archer, Gus Atkinson, Sonny Baker and Josh Tongue are all set to leave the tour after the ODI series rather than carry on into the T20Is, a call aimed squarely at keeping that quartet fresh for the Test tour of South Africa that follows this white-ball swing. It leaves England's T20I attack built around a different mix of bowlers once the three ODIs are done.
Australia's own squads for the series are missing Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, all left out as the hosts protect their frontline Test attack ahead of a home summer that includes Test series against New Zealand and India. Several of Australia's regular Test batters are also set to sit out the T20I leg, pointing to a side using this series to assess depth rather than field its first-choice XI throughout.
Jacob Bethell's return is the headline value pick given his all-round profile, while Jofra Archer's workload is worth tracking closely since he is confirmed only for the ODI leg; on the T20I side, Phil Salt's opening spot and the uncapped Thomas Rew are both worth a look once squads are finalised match by match.
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Squad details in this article are verified against same-day and freshly re-checked ECB and ICC reporting as of November 2, 2026; final playing XIs for the November 13 opener had not been confirmed at the time of writing.
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