Zimbabwe batsman Murray Goodwin is to quit playing for Zimbabwe and return to play for Western Australia this winter.
This will be a factor they will have to sort out in Australia this winter, although their attack isn't up to much.
On Thursday, the ECB announced the squad to defend the Ashes in Australia this winter, with Swann, shortlisted for world player of the year, included.
The central contracts, which are awarded annually, were announced at the same time as the England squad which will defend the Ashes in Australia this winter.
Doshi's Surrey team-mates Ali Brown and James Benning are others whose names have been put forward because of their uninhibited strokeplay, along with Lancashire's Mal Loye, who was part of England's one-day squad in Australia last winter.
Trescothick, who was dismissed for 18 while batting for Somerset against Derbyshire on Wednesday, has twice had to leave England tours because of his illness, most recently ahead of the Ashes series in Australia last winter.
In Adelaide, Australia, Christos Winter of the MJ Fan Club had organized a petition to bring Jackson to tour there.
Instead, Tredwell joins Shahzad among 16 players named in the performance squad, a back-up group who will also be in Australia during the winter.
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It doesn't mean spending the winter in Australia, being part of one of the most anticipated sporting occasions of the year and being handsomely rewarded for it.
He continued to prosper, becoming captain in for the 1969-70 winter series against Australia, masterminding a 4-0 whitewash.
The batsman had quit international cricket in March in protest at his suspension after last winter's Australia tour but was persuaded to return after Pakistan's crushing defeat on Sunday.
Broad, though, rejected the suggestion that England's heavy winter schedule in Australia before the World Cup, which featured a five-Test Ashes series, seven one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games over a three-month period, was to blame for their injury problems.
The 29-year-old, who also helped Victoria win Australia's Pura Cup last winter, has scored 1, 548 Championship runs during the current season at an average of almost 62.
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Younus and Yousuf were banned indefinitely for having a "bad influence" on the team during last winter's tour of Australia but Younus's ban was recently overturned on appeal.
England's eyes will now turn towards Sunday's final in Barbados, potentially against this winter's Ashes opponents Australia, should Michael Clarke's unbeaten team put paid to Pakistan's defence of the trophy on Friday.
The Glamorgan paceman damaged the cruciate ligament in his right knee when fielding last winter in the first Test against Australia in Brisbane.
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But Strauss, named England's man of the series after scoring 317 runs at an average in excess of 63, added that such a mentally taxing series could be good preparation for the winter's Ashes tour of Australia.
And, having broken into Australia's limited-overs team this winter, he admits that the five games he is due to play for Worcestershire alongside New South Wales team-mate Phil Jaques to kick off this summer's Twenty20 should prove invaluable.
But, as Australia themselves have shown, those long, hard winter tours can be made the exception rather than the rule.
Birch played for Sydney club Wallsend last winter and is eager to return to Australia to pit her wits against some of her former team-mates.
Barmy Army leader Paul Burnham expects huge numbers of England fans to flock to Australia even though they might not have tickets for this winter's Ashes.
The tests will be carried out in the nets at Lord's this winter and also in women's cricket in Australia.
The new season starts in Melbourne on March 17, but Rosberg says conditions in Australia will be completely different to those experienced in the European winter.
If he lost this winter to Andrew Strauss's team he would become the first Australia captain to lose three Ashes campaigns in more than 100 years.
Hodgson underwent surgery in August last year on a long-standing shoulder problem, but played in two of England's winter internationals in September - as a replacement in the victory over Australia, before being injured in the defeat by South Africa.
Australia came close to losing their number one ranking in Tests after series defeats by India and South Africa over the winter.
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