JOHANNESBURG, Jan 18 Alastair Cook will captain England on their tour of Bangladesh next month while regular captain Andrew Strauss will be rested.

England's Test and One-day International squads were announced in Johannesburg on Monday at the end of the tour of South Africa during which Strauss led England to a win in the one-day series and a share of the Test series.

The England and Wales Cricket Board announced last September that some senior players would be rested from the Bangladesh tour in order to manage their workload and it was suggested at the time that Strauss would be one of those to sit out.

The only other member of the Test side against South Africa who will miss the tour is fast bowler James Anderson who will undergo rehabilitation for a chronic right knee injury. Three uncapped players — Hampshire batsman Michael Carberry, Yorkshire fast bowler Ajmal Shahzad and Kent off-spinner James Tredwell — were named in the 16-man Test squad, while Shahzad and Tredwell were also selected in the 15-man one-day squad.

England will play three One-day Internationals and two Tests in Bangladesh.

The tour will be preceded by two Twenty20 Internationals against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, where the side will be captained by Paul Collingwood.

Selection convenor Geoff Miller said “Andrew Strauss has provided outstanding leadership in both forms of the game over the past 12 months and the selectors feel it is important he takes a break ahead of an extremely busy programme of international cricket leading up to and including the Ashes in Australia and the World Cup in 2011.

Test squad Alastair Cook (captain), Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Michael Carberry, Paul Collingwood, Steven Davies, Graham Onions, Kevin Pietersen, Liam Plunkett, Matt Prior, Ajmal Shahzad (Yorkshire), Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott, Luke Wright.

One-day squad Cook (captain), Tim Bresnan, Broad, Collingwood, Joe Denly, Eoin Morgan, Prior, Pietersen, Plunkett, Shahzad, Sidebottom, Swann, Tredwell, Trott, Wright.

Schedule

Feb 14 Arrive in Dubai.
Feb 17 Twenty20 v England Lions (Abu Dhabi).
Feb 19 First Twenty20 International v Pakistan (Dubai).
Feb 20 Second Twenty20 International v Pakistan (Dubai).Feb 23 v Bangladesh Cricket Board XI (Fatullah).
Feb 25 Bangladesh Cricket Board XI (Fatullah).
Feb 28 First ODI v Bangladesh (Dhaka).March 2 Second ODI v Bangladesh (Dhaka).
March 5 Third ODI v Bangladesh (Chittagong).March 7-9 v Bangladesh 'A' (Chittagong).
March 12-16 First Test (Chittagong).
March 20-24 Second Test (Dhaka). —AFP