Durham pace bowler Mark Wood has been selected for England Lions’ touring squad of Australia during November & December.
Wood, who narrowly missed out on Ashes selection last week, will travel as part of a 17-man squad for a training camp.
The Lions will shadow England’s full side for the first three Tests but will play matches of their own.
They will spend a week at the Performance Centre in Loughborough before flying to Brisbane on November 14, for a two-week camp with a red-ball focus culminating in a three-day match against a Queensland XI at the Allan Border Oval from November 27-29 – although this will not be an official England Lions fixture.
They then head west to Perth for two weeks focusing on white-ball skills during which they will play three T20 matches against a Scorchers team who will be preparing for the Big Bash.
The Lions squad for a seven-week trip to the West Indies in 2018, including three four-day matches and three 50-over fixtures, will be selected in December, along with the squads for the North-South Series which follows in Barbados in March.
Lions: Dom Bess; Joe Clarke; Paul Coughlin; Alex Davies; Ben Duckett; George Garton; Nick Gubbins; Tom Helm; Keaton Jennings; Dan Lawrence; Jack Leach; Liam Livingstone; Saqib Mahmood; Jamie Porter; Amar Virdi; Tom Westley; Mark Wood.