Durham star Carse called into England cricket squad
Durham bowler Brydon Carse has been named in England’s training squad for international cricket’s still-hopedfor summer.
The England and Wales Cricket Board has named a bumper 55-man training group ahead of what it hopes will be a busy international schedule against the West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland .
Fourteen uncapped players from the county game have been invited to resume work under ECB guidance – Carse, Dan Lawrence, James Bracey, Phil Salt, Jamie Overton, Henry Brookes, Amar Virdi, Laurie Evans, Will Jacks, Ollie Robinson, Richard Gleeson, Sam Hain, Tom Helm and Tom Kohler-Cadmore.
There are also returns for the likes of Pat Brown, Ben Duckett, Liam Livingstone, David Willey, Mason Crane and Reece Topley - all capped in various formats but not seen in recent times.
Despite the vast nature of the list there are still those who will be disappointed not to feature, including World Cup winner Liam Plunkett who can safely conclude his England days are now done - Hampshire batsman Sam Northeast and Essex seamer Jamie Porter.
Alex Hales, who was dropped from the World Cup squad last year when news broke of two failed drugs tests, is nowhere to be seen following one-day captain Eoin Morgan's assertion that the breach in trust between the batsman and his team-mates had not yet healed.
The expanded group will not be brought together in one place, with individual sessions at a host of county venues the only form of training currently approved.