FAST bowler Amjad Khan is Kent’s only representative in England’s 30-man, longlist squad to contest this year’s cricket World Cup starting in the Caribbean in March.

Danish-born Khan only became England qualified in December after a near six-year wait for a British passport, but was named in the England A squad to tour Bangladesh in February only a fortnight ago, which has been followed by this latest World Cup inclusion.

Khan is one of four uncapped players to be named in England’s initial party, which will be cut to 15 on February 15. The others being Lancashire’s Mal Loye, Graham Onions of Durham and Ravi Bopara from Essex.

Though the selectors have named three wicketkeepers in the party, there is no place for Kent’s Geraint Jones, leaving Matt Prior, Paul Nixon and Chris Read to contest the starting place. County skipper Rob Key also misses out.

England’s provisional World Cup squad: James Anderson (Lancashire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Ravi Bopara (Essex), Stuart Broad (Leicestershire), Glen Chapple (Lancashire), Rikki Clarke (Surrey), Paul Collingwood (Durham), Alastair Cook (Essex), Jamie Dalrymple (Middlesex), Andrew Flintoff (Lancashire), Ashley Giles (Warwickshire), Matthew Hoggard (Yorkshire), Ed Joyce (Middlesex), Amjad Khan (Kent), Jon Lewis (Gloucestershire), Mal Loye (Lancashire), Sajid Mahmood (Lancashire), Paul Nixon (Leicestershire), Graham Onions (Durham), Monty Panesar (Northamptonshire), Kevin Pietersen (Hampshire), Liam Plunkett (Durham), Matt Prior (Sussex), Chris Read (Nottinghamshire), Owais Shah (Middlesex), Vikram Solanki (Worcestershire), Andrew Strauss (Middlesex), Chris Tremlett (Hampshire), Michael Vaughan (Yorkshire), Michael Yardy (Sussex).