England today named a 13-man squad for next week's Third npower Test Match against Australia at Trent Bridge (August 2-6).

Surrey quick bowler Alex Tudor and Glamorgan off-spinner Robert Croft are included in the squad along with Usman Afzaal who made his Test debut earlier this summer in the First npower Test against Australia at Edgbaston.

Michael Atherton will again captain the side in the absence of the injured Nasser Hussain. Hussain is now aiming to be fit for the Headingley Test Match along with England's other injured batsmen, Graham Thorpe and Michael Vaughan.

 
Squad:
                                          Born  Caps
Michael Atherton (Lancashire) (captain) 23.3.68  112
Usman Afzaal (Nottinghamshire)           9.6.77    1
Mark Butcher (Surrey)                   23.8.72   29
Andrew Caddick (Somerset)              21.11.68   47
Robert Croft (Glamorgan)                25.5.70   20
Darren Gough (Yorkshire)                18.9.70   52
Mark Ramprakash (Surrey)                 5.9.69   43
Chris Silverwood (Yorkshire)             5.3.75    5
Alec Stewart (Surrey)                    8.4.63  112
Marcus Trescothick (Somerset)          25.12.75   13
Alex Tudor (Surrey)                    23.10.77    3
Ian Ward (Surrey)                       30.9.73    4
Craig White (Yorkshire)                16.12.69   20

Alex Tudor Photo © CricInfo

Announcing the squad, Chairman of Selectors, David Graveney, said: "We did not want to make wholesale changes to the squad for this Test Match. But we feel we will need more variety in our attack at Trent Bridge and the inclusion of Alex Tudor and Robert Croft will give us more bowling options.

"Dominic Cork misses out this time as we have decided to go for the greater pace of Alex Tudor who has performed well for Surrey this season since coming back from injury. We wanted to show continuity of selection by including Robert Croft as he was included in the squad earlier in the season and also performed very well on the winter tour of Sri Lanka."

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