England selectors have named a 14-man England Lions group that will fly to Australia on November 4 and provide warm-up opposition for their Ashes squad.
The Lions will train alongside the main group in Queensland and play two intra-squad warm-up matches before they face Australia A in a four-day match, which is scheduled to be played in Brisbane on December 9-12 and run concurrently with the first Vodafone Test at the Gabba.
Notable names in the Lions group are wicketkeeper-batter Ben Foakes, leg-spinners Matt Parkinson and Mason Crane (whose sole Test to date came at the SCG in 2018) and recently dumped Test opener, Dom Sibley.
But there was no room for Sixers pair Tom Curran and James Vince, who both played on England's last Test tour of Australia in 2017-18, or Sam Billings, who had been part of the Test set-up this year.
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/england ... 2021-10-14England Lions squad: Tom Abell, Josh Bohannon, James Bracey, Brydon Carse, Mason Crane, Matthew Fisher, Ben Foakes, Alex Lees, Saqib Mahmood, Liam Norwell, Matt Parkinson, Dom Sibley, Jamie Smith, Rob Yates