England Test captain Joe Root and vice-captain Jos Buttler will play for Sydney Thunder in this winter's Twenty20 Big Bash League in Australia. Root has not played in an overseas T20 competition before and the 27-year-old went unsold in the Indian Premier League auction in January.Buttler, also 27, played six times for the Thunder in 2017-18 and previously played for Melbourne Renegades.The 2018-19 Big Bash runs from 18 December to 17 February.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has cleared Root and Buttler to play in the first half of the tournament as it falls between winter tours to Sri Lanka and West Indies.Root has played only 12 T20 matches since England's defeat by West Indies in the World Twenty20 final in April 2016, with eight for his country and four for Yorkshire.He was rested for the T20 tri-series against Australia and New Zealand earlier this year and dropped for the deciding T20 against India in July.
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