The ECB have announced the England Development Squad for 2006 which is as follows:
Michael Vaughan* (Yorkshire, born 29/10/74) />James Anderson (Lancashire, 30/7/82) />Ian Bell* (Warwickshire, 11/4/82) />Ian Blackwell (Somerset, 10/6/78) />Stuart Broad (Leicestershire, 24/6/86) Rikki Clarke (Surrey, 29/9/81) Paul Collingwood* (Durham, 26/5/76) Alastair Cook (Essex, 25/12/84) Andrew Flintoff* (Lancashire, 6/12/77) Ashley Giles* (Warwickshire, 19/3/73) />Stephen Harmison* (Durham, 23/10/78) />Matthew Hoggard* (Yorkshire, 31/12/76) Geraint Jones* (Kent, 14/7/76) Simon Jones* (Glamorgan, 25/12/78) Ed Joyce (Middlesex, 22/9/78) Jon Lewis (Gloucestershire, 26/8/75) Alex Loudon (Warwickshire, 6/9/80) Sajid Mahmood (Lancashire, 21/12/81) Monty Panesar (Northamptonshire, 25/4/82) Kevin Pietersen* (Hampshire, 27/6/80) Liam Plunkett (Durham, 6/4/85) Chris Read (Nottinghamshire, 10/8/78) Owais Shah (Middlesex, 22/10/78) Andrew Strauss* (Middlesex (2/3/77) />Marcus Trescothick* (Somerset, 25/12/75)
* denotes those 12 players currently in receipt of 12-month ECB contracts, which run from October 1 2005 to September 30 2006. /> No great suprises except perhaps Broad.