Baker in Ashes frame as Overton takes break

As attention returns to international cricket after the completion of the Hundred, on a chill day at Headingley there was further evidence of the increasingly hot reputation of Sonny Baker, whose emergence as a bowler with Ashes ambitions coincided with Jamie Overton's decision to surrender his own by announcing an indefinite break from the first-class game.

- Simon Burnton

Baker will make his senior international debut today in the first one-day international against South Africa, opening the bowling alongside Jofra Archer, knowing that positive performances in this series could sway selectors who are considering him as a seam bowling option for the Ashes after a breakout summer for Hampshire and Manchester Originals.

"He's been awesome in the Hundred," Harry Brook said. "You've seen him bowl at some of the best batters in the world and he's had them on toast. He bowls at high pace and he can swing it both ways with exceptional death skills as well so to have him in the team and for him to be opening up tomorrow is awesome."