There was misery for Sussex fast bowler James Kirtley today when he was left out of England's Test squad for the winter tours to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Kirtley, who took 13 wickets in two Test appearances against South Africa earlier this summer, is in the 15 man one-day squad.

But the selectors have chosen just three specialist fast bowlers for the Test series in James Anderson, Matthew Hoggard and Steve Harmison, whose performance in the final Test at the Oval appears to have secured his place at the expense of Kirtley.

Sussex's wicketkeeper-batsmen Matt Prior has been named in the 14-strong England Academy squad after scoring four hundreds this season.

Meanwhile, Sussex's bid for the ten points which would secure their first Championship was held up by the Manchester weather today.

Overnight rain meant there was no play before lunch on the first day against Lancashire at Old Trafford.

One-day squad: Vaughan (Yorkshire,capt), Trescothick (Somerset), Solanki (Worcestershire), McGrath (Yorkshire), PD Collingwood (Durham), Clarke (Surrey) 21 7, Strauss (Middlesex), Flintoff (Lancashire), Read (Nottinghamshire, wkt), Giles (Warwickshire), Batty (Worcestershire), Anderson (Lancashire) Kirtley (Sussex), Johnson (Somerset), Blackwell (Somerset).

Academy squad: Kadeer Ali (Worcestershire), Francis (Somerset), Gidman (Gloucestershire), Jones (Glamorgan), Shaftab Khalid (Worcestershire), Lumb (Yorkshire), Mahmood (Lancashire), Napier (Essex), Newman (Surrey), Pietersen (Nottinghamshire), Prior (Sussex), Shafayat (Nottinghamshire), Tredwell (Kent), Wagg (Warwickshire).