Kent batsman Zak Crawley to captain England for first time in three-match One-Day series against Ireland

Kent batsman Zak Crawley is set to captain England for the first time this month.

Crawley, 25, will lead his country with Ben Duckett named as his vice-captain for the three-match series against Ireland, which begins at Headingley on Wednesday, September 20.

After that, they’ll play at Trent Bridge on September 23 and Bristol on September 26.

The former Tonbridge School pupil has 39 England Test caps to his name - and was their top run scorer as they failed to regain the Ashes earlier in the summer - but only previously has played three One-Day Internationals.

James Tredwell, who now is playing club cricket for Folkestone, was the last Kent men’s player to captain England. He did so in a rained-off T20 international against New Zealand in 2013.

Others to have captained England when playing for Kent include Colin Cowdrey, Chris Cowdrey, Percy Chapman, Ivo Bligh and Mike Denness.

England’s One-Day squad itself includes three uncapped players in Warwickshire batsman Sam Hain, Surrey wicketkeeper Jamie Smith and Derbyshire paceman George Scrimshaw.

The England men’s selection panel say they “consulted with the first-class counties, and weighed their ambitions in the run-in to the end of the LV= Insurance County Championship season, before finalising the squad.”

It’s likely Crawley will now be unavailable for at least some of Kent’s final three red-ball matches this summer as they aim to avoid County Championship Division 1 relegation.

England squad: Crawley (C), Duckett, Ahmed, Brook, Carse, Hain, Jacks, Overton, Potts, Salt, Scrimshaw, Smith, Wood.