Six Yorkshire stars in England Lions team for South Africa tour opener
Sunday 4 January 2015 16:44, UK
England Lions will field six Yorkshire players in the line-up for the opening match of their tour of South Africa against an Invitational XI in Soweto on Monday.
One of them, Adam Lyth, will open the batting with Middlesex’s Sam Robson in the three-day match.
Lyth’s opening partner at Yorkshire, Alex Lees, drops to number three with skipper Jonathan Trott coming in next as he plays in his first game abroad since he left the England tour of Australia with a stress-related illness.
Hampshire’s James Vince comes in at five with Yorkshire keeper Jonathan Bairstow in at six. Bairstow’s county team-mate and spinner Adil Rashid follows him.
The pace attack consist of two more Yorkshire bowlers, Liam Plunkett and Jack Brooks, plus Warwickshire’s Boyd Rankin and Durham quick Mark Wood.
England Lions team: Lyth (Yorkshire), Robson (Middlesex), Lees (Yorkshire), Trott (Warwickshire, capt), Vince (Hampshire), Bairstow (Yorkshire, wk), Rashid (Yorkshire), Plunkett (Yorkshire), Wood (Durham), Rankin (Warwickshire), Brooks (Yorkshire).
