JAMES TREDWELL admitted his call-up to England’s 16-man one-day international squad to tour New Zealand later this month came as a pleasant shock

The 24-year-old off-spinner from Ashford was the surprise selection in the England tour party named last Friday, while his club colleague, Joe Denly, 23, from Whitstable, won a call up to England Lions’ five-week tour of India leaving in late January – the trip Tredwell himself expected to be making.

Tredwell said: "I’d had a letter from the ECB and it seemed pretty much certain I’d be going to India with the Lions, so when David Graveney (ECB chairman of selectors) rang me, I thought it was just to go through the admin for that trip.

"But when he told me I was going to New Zealand instead, it came as a little bit of a shock but a nice one all the same.

"I’ve been involved with the ECB performance squads and the A teams for some time now so I’d like to think I’ve been doing things right for them and for Kent in order to get this call."

Full interview in this week's Kent Messenger and Kentish Gazette