Sam Cook dinner referred to as as much as England Lions squad for Australia

Prolific Essex seamer added to celebration after claiming 58 Championship wickets in 2021

Cook dinner, 24, claimed an excellent 58 wickets at 14.43 within the 2021 County Championship, together with a outstanding haul of ten wickets in one day, throughout two innings, as Essex routed Northamptonshire within two days of their ultimate fit of the season.

Having damaged into the Essex first staff all the way through the 2017 season, Cook dinner has claimed a complete of 162 top quality wickets at 20.35 in 47 appearances. In that point, he has contributed to 2 County Championship titles in 2017 and 2019, plus the Bob Willis Trophy in 2020 and the second one department identify within the now-abandoned convention gadget used remaining summer time.

He used to be additionally a member of the T20 facet that claimed the Blast identify in 2019, and remaining summer time picked up an extra 20 wickets in Essex’s T20 Blast marketing campaign in 2021, regardless of the membership’s failure to development from the crowd level.

He’ll hyperlink up with the opposite 14 participants of the Lions squad forward in their departure for Australia on November 4, the place he’ll shadow the principle Ashes celebration along different seam bowling reserves, together with Durham’s Brydon Carse, Warwickshire’s Liam Norwell, and Saqib Mahmood of Lancashire.

“Cannot wait to get available in the market now!” Cook dinner tweeted, based on the call-up.

England Lions squad: Tom Abell (Somerset), Josh Bohannon (Lancashire), James Bracey (Gloucestershire), Brydon Carse (Durham), Sam Cook dinner (Essex), Mason Crane (Hampshire), Matthew Fisher (Yorkshire), Ben Foakes (Surrey), Alex Lees (Durham), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Liam Norwell (Warwickshire), Matt Parkinson (Lancashire), Dom Sibley (Warwickshire), Jamie Smith (Surrey), Rob Yates (Warwickshire)