Moeen retired from Test cricket in September 2021Replacement required for injured spinner Jack Leach
Moeen Ali has agreed to return to the cauldron of the Ashes this summer after answering England’s call to face Australia in the five-Test men’s series that gets under way in his home city of Birmingham next week.
Faced with the shock emergence of a lower back stress fracture that ruled Jack Leach out of all five Tests over the next two months, England assessed their spin stocks and decided Moeen was the first-choice replacement. This comes despite the all-rounder retiring from Test cricket 18 months ago after 64 caps, 2,914 runs and 195 wickets.
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