ESSEX trio Ravinder Bopara, Alastair Cook and captain Mark Pettini have been included in a 30-man provisional squad for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa this September.

ESSEX trio Ravinder Bopara, Alastair Cook and captain Mark Pettini have been included in a 30-man provisional squad for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa this September.

England provisional squad: PD Collingwood (Durham, capt), JM Anderson (Lancashire), IR Bell (Warwickshire), RS Bopara (Essex), TT Bresnan (Yorkshire), SC Broad (Leicestershire), G Chapple (Lancashire), AN Cook (Essex), A Flintoff (Lancashire), RJ Kirtley (Sussex), J Lewis (Gloucestershire), MB Loye (Lancashire), DL Maddy (Warwickshire), AD Mascarenhas (Hampshire), PA Nixon (Leicestershire, wkt), MS Panesar (Northamptonshire), ML Pettini (Essex), KP Pietersen (Hampshire), LE Plunkett (Durham), MJ Prior (Sussex, wkt), CS Schofield (Surrey), OA Shah (Middlesex), RJ Sidebottom (Nottinghamshire), JN Snape (Leicestershire), VS Solanki (Worcestershire), CT Tremlett (Hampshire), ME Trescothick (Somerset), IJ Trott (Warwickshire), LJ Wright (Sussex), MH Yardy (Sussex).