Academy Duo Eve O'Neill And Shristi Patil Sign First Pro Contracts
Spin bowler Eve O’Neill and batter Shristi Patil have signed one-year professional contracts
Hampshire pair Reece Topley & Liam Dawson have been named alongside captain James Vince in the 30-man England Performance Squad for the 2016 season.
This includes the 22 players who are centrally contracted and incrementally contracted. The additional eight players, currently in the County system, make up the rest.
This is the first time in two seasons we have selected an England Performance Squad. I feel that it is important that we do so to enable our staff to monitor effectively those players who are on our radar, but not necessarily part of one of the England teams. It is also important to point out that it does not confine the selectors to pick from this squad.
Andrew Strauss, Director of England Cricket
England 30-man Performance Squad: Moeen Ali* (Worcestershire), James Anderson* (Lancashire), Zafar Ansari (Surrey), Jonny Bairstow** (Yorkshire), Jake Ball (Nottinghamshire), Gary Ballance** (Yorkshire), Ian Bell* (Warwickshire), Sam Billings (Kent), Stuart Broad* (Nottinghamshire), Jos Buttler* (Lancashire), Nick Compton** (Middlesex), Alastair Cook* (Essex), Tom Curran (Surrey), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Steven Finn* (Middlesex), Mark Footitt (Surrey), Alex Hales** (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan** (Sussex), Eoin Morgan* (Middlesex), Jamie Overton (Somerset), Liam Plunkett** (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid** (Yorkshire), Joe Root* (Yorkshire), Jason Roy** (Surrey), Ben Stokes* (Durham), Reece Topley (Hampshire), James Vince (Hampshire), David Willey** (Yorkshire), Chris Woakes** (Warwickshire), Mark Wood* (Durham).
*England Centrally Contracted
**England Incrementally Contracted
Spin bowler Eve O’Neill and batter Shristi Patil have signed one-year professional contracts
All-rounders Nancy Harman and Megan Sturge have left Hampshire and will join Glamorgan for 2027
Hampshire’s Sonny Baker and Liam Dawson are named in England’s 16-player squad to face Pakistan and Sri Lanka in an ODI tri-series