Netherlands name provisional squad for England ODI series

Netherlands and England are due to play three ODIs in Amsterdam later in June

Netherlands have named their provisional 18-strong squad to face England, with Australian-born batter Tom Cooper in line for an international comeback.

The 35-year-old has made 41 ODI and T20I appearances for the Netherlands, with his most recent outing coming against Ireland in March 2016.

The two sides are scheduled to play three ODIs in Amsterdam, with the series beginning on June 17.

However, due to the series clashing with the T20 Blast, Shane Snater (Essex) and Fred Klaassen (Kent) are the only county-contracted players included in the squad.

Pieter Seelaar will captain the side, which will be trimmed to 15 players before the series begins.

^{Pieter Seelaar will captain Netherlands [Michael Bradley/AFP via Getty Images]}

High performance manager, Roland Lefebvre, said: "We are very pleased with the arrival of Tom Cooper, who brings with him a huge amount of experience. In recent years, some important players of the Dutch national team have stopped. The availability of Dutch players employed by English counties is also limited.

"The knowledge and experience, but also the mentoring role that Tom will have within the young Dutch national team, is of great value. Tom is available for the rest of the international fixtures."

Seelaar added: "After a very competitive series against the West Indies, we take on the reigning world champions England, taking a lot of positives from the matches against the West Indies into the upcoming series.

"In saying that, there are also areas we need to improve in order to be as competitive against England."

Netherlands squad: Pieter Seelaar (C), Scott Edwards (wk), Musa Ahmed, Shariz Ahmad, Logan van Beek, Philippe Boissevain, Tom Cooper, Aryan Dutt, Clayton Floyd, Vivian Kingma, Fred Klaassen, Ryan Klein, Bas de Leede, Teja Nidamanuru, Max O'Dowd, Tim Pringle, Vikramjit Singh, Shane Snater

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