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September 29, 2011
Second part of the England players will experience a busy winter after the program and schedule squads show up to Christmas has been confirmed. The main 17-man squad that includes some call-ups in Surrey Jason Roy and Tom Maynard, the more left-arm spinner Lancashire Simon Kerrigan, will train at Loughborough in November, before splitting in two trips, according to their roles.
The batsmen, spinners and wicketkeepers will go to India, while the fast bowlers will be based in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Meanwhile, another group of 13 human players below the main level of PPE will also train at the National Academy in Loughborough, before heading to any of Sri Lanka and India for more intensive development. Then there will be a complete visit of the Lions in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in 2012 with the party, due to be named in December.
The two squads highlight the current depth in English cricket team with seven major PPE has already played international cricket, including Jonny Bairstow, Scott Borthwick and Chris Woakes who will head to India for the series a day next week as well as Alex Hales and Joseph Butler, who will join the Twenty20.
Of those who do not yet represent England, Maynard and Roy is an award-winning turn in Surrey shooting. Maynard is located in the 1022 championship and was the clubs leading run-Life Friends creator T20, when Roy was in Surrey is the most successful batsman with 585 runs CB40. At the same Kerrigan, who had a brief spell with the Lions earlier this summer, has played a key role in the success of the Lancashire Cup in the figures of September 51 against Hampshire.
There is also a strong culture of fast bowlers like Ajmal Shahzad despite his difficult season for Yorkshire, where he took 25 wickets at 41 in the championship. Boyd Rankin, the Ireland pace bowler rated the best in the County Circuit Marcus Trescothick, is also part of the team as Nathan Buck Leicestershire.
"England Performance Programme offers an excellent opportunity for those players who have demonstrated a remarkable talent for training with England throughout the winter and the environment continues to grow as cricketers," David Parsons, Director of Performance he said. "This is an interesting group of young cricketers have been selected all but three players in England this winter, program performance, to represent the British Lions and England this year.
"We recognize the need to develop a group of players who are able to play a key role in international cricket when necessary and this program allows us to continue working with people identified as having the ability to perform at the highest level.
The other 13 players selected - a third level of English cricket - includes Tymal Mills, the pace bowler for Essex, which is regarded as having the potential to bowling quickly and Toby Roland-Jones Middlesex has been on the radar selectors "this season but has struggled with injuries.
"This program allows us to work with a group of players that have shown considerable promise in both age group cricket and county cricket," said Parsons. "Drummers and spin bowlers have blocks of training in both Loughborough and Sri Lanka as well as an opportunity to play for seven weeks in Sri Lanka offers players an opportunity to develop their skills in the conditions of the subcontinent.
"The fast bowlers in the group carry a block of conditioning at Loughborough before a training camp in India," he added. "It was an important step in the development of a number of young fast bowlers who came to represent the England Lions and England with Steven Finn, Stuart Meaker, Jade Dernbach and Chris Woakes all benefit from this program the past years. "
Program execution England Jonny Bairstow, Scott Borthwick, Danny Briggs, Nathan Buck, Jos Buttler, Alex Hales, James Harris, Simon Kerrigan, Tom Maynard, Stuart Meaker, Boyd Rankin, the root of Joe, Jason Roy, Ajmal Shahzad, James Taylor Vince James, Chris Woakes
Development squad Moen Ali, Moin Ashraf, Charles Brown, Varun Chopra, Matthew Cole, Matt Dunn, Tymal Mills, Jigar Naik, Stephen Parry, Toby Roland-Jones, Alex Wakely, Luke Wells, Adam Wheater
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