HAMPSHIRE starlet Tom Alsop has been included in this winter’s England Lions squad alongside Liam Dawson - and Mason Crane is off to Australia.

The 20 year-old left-hander is in an 18-man squad for training camps at Sandhurst, Loughborough, Dubai, including white-ball matches against UAE, before a three-day match against Afghanistan in Sharjah in December.

The squad is led by Andy Flower, who said: “We’ll build on some of the leadership work we did at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst last winter, which leads into a short camp at Loughborough, before we head out to Dubai later in November.

“Last winter, and in our Tri-Series this summer, our focus was specifically on white-ball cricket.

This year we will be working on both white-ball and red-ball skills. Developing skill will remain the highest priority of our work, with a range of specialist coaches to work with the players in the excellent facilities at the ICC Academy, and initially the opportunity to do that away from the different demands of competition.

“However towards the end of the camp we will play as England Lions in white-ball and red-ball fixtures.”

Hampshire leg-spinner Crane will be on an overseas placement in Sydney, where he will be under the tutelage of former Australia leg-spinner Stuart MacGill.

England Lions: Gubbins, Roland-Jones, Rayner, Fuller(Middlesex), Jennings (Durham), Alsop, Dawson (Hants), Bell-Drummond (Kent), Westley (Essex), Clarke (Worcestershire), Livingstone (Lancashire), Foakes (Surrey), Meaker, S Curran, T Curran (Surrey), Ball (Notts), Leach, C Overton (Somerset).