England have announced their 26 man performance squad for the upcoming tests and it has one or two interesting names in there.
Adil Rashid has once again entered the frame and though I still think it may be a little too early for him, could well be in with a shout of seeing some international action this summer. The other uncapped players are Michael Carberry and the Kent spinner James Tredwell.
Elsewhere, the likes of Rob Key and Matt Prior return to the selectors thoughts, whilst the rest of the squad is pretty much as you would expect.
National selector Geoff Miller, said:
"The England Performance Squad is designed to allow Peter Moores to closely monitor the development of international players and better prepare them for the demands of the international game.
"The selectors can name up to 30 players in the EPS, but we have decided to keep four places vacant to give ourselves greater flexibility and we will reserve the right to add further players to the squad if their performances in domestic cricket merit it."
The full squad is:
Ambrose (Warwicks), Anderson (Lancs), Bell (Warwicks), Bopara (Essex), Broad (Notts), Carberry (Hants), Collingwood (Durham), Cook (Essex), Flintoff (Lancs), Harmison (Durham), Hoggard (Yorks), Key (Kent), Mascarenhas (Hants), Mustard (Durham), Panesar (Northants), Pietersen (Hants), Prior (Sussex), Rashid (Yorks), Shah (Middx), Strauss (Middx), Sidebottom (Notts), Swann (Notts), Tredwell (Kent), Tremlett (Hants), Vaughan (Yorks), Wright (Sussex).
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