England Ashes 2021-22 squad Joe Root will captain an experienced 17-player squad for the five-match Ashes Test series in Australia – aiming to win back the famous urn after Australia retained it in England in 2019 ENGLAND SQUAD Test caps One Day International Twenty20 All 17 players have won Test caps, but 10 are facing their first overseas Ashes series Joe Root Men’s Player of the Year in English county cricket Joe Root (age 30) 109 152 34 James Anderson (39) 164 200 28 Jonny Bairstow (32) 78 86 53 Dom Bess (24) 13 0 2 Stuart Broad (35) 148 122 74 Rory Burns (31) 29 2 1 Jos Buttler (31) 53 146 80 Zak Crawley (23) 15 5 1 Haseeb Hameed (24) 6 0 0 Dan Lawrence (24) 8 2 2 Jack Leach (30) 16 0 2 Dawid Malan (34) 17 5 27 Craig Overton (27) 6 4 0 Ollie Pope (23) 20 2 1 Ollie Robinson (27) 5 0 0 Chris Woakes (32) 38 106 11 Mark Wood (31) 21 58 13 Source: ECB Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS