Stone & Gregory withdrawn from England Performance Programme

The ECB has today confirmed that Somerset’s Lewis Gregory and Northamptonshire’s Olly Stone have been withdrawn from this winter’s England Performance Programme (EPP).  Both players are suffering from lower back injuries, which will prevent them from taking any part in the EPP and England Lions training and playing programme before and after Christmas.

  

Gregory had been due to attend the EPP batting and spin camp in Dubai from mid-November followed by playing for England Lions in the twenty20 (T20) series against Pakistan ‘A’ in the UAE in December.  Stone had been selected in the group of EPP fast bowlers who will travel to South Africa for a ten-day training camp on 11th November, before the fast bowlers link up with the rest of the EPP squad in Dubai towards the end of the month.

 

Gregory and Stone will now undergo bespoke rehabilitation programmes, working towards regaining full fitness for the start of the 2016 domestic cricket season.

 

At this stage, neither player will be replaced in either the EPP or England Lions T20 squads.