SQUAD: England's Test squad line up ahead of the West Indies tour. Pic: PA
JACK Leach has been left out of the England XI for the first Test against the West Indies, which gets underway in Barbados this afternoon.
Leach was England's joint-top wicket taker in the 3-0 series win in Sri Lanka before Christmas with 18 scalps, but Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid have been preferred to the Somerset man as the two spinners in the Caribbean.
#NoLeachNoParty pic.twitter.com/8sASxMvvP1
— Somerset Cricket 🏏 (@SomersetCCC) January 23, 2019
I suppose it makes more of a game of it by not playing Leachy 🙈 #HitsHeadOnWall
— Peter Trego (@tregs140) January 23, 2019
Stuart Broad also misses out, with Sam Curran named as the second seamer.
Former Somerset man Jos Buttler is vice-captain and due to bat at six.
England are bowling first in Barbados - play begins at 2pm.
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