ENGLAND: Mills and Briggs prepare for EPP and Lions' winter programme

Sussex has plenty of representation in the England Performance Programme this winter, with the players having begun their winter training programmes already ahead of their overseas tours.

Left-arm paceman Tymal Mills and new recruit Danny Briggs are both involved at Loughborough this week before heading on separate overseas tours next week.

Mills forms part of the fast bowling camp in Potchefstroom, South Africa, whilst Briggs, who signed for Sussex from Hampshire last month, will be with the batting and spin camp in Dubai. Both parties then come together on November 24th for the final week of the camp in Dubai, which ends on December 1st.

Sussex leg-spinner Will Beer will also be accompanying the EPP squad to the UAE in a net bowling capacity.

Almost all of the players from both camps will then remain in Dubai to form the England Lions squad to take on Pakistan ‘A’ between the 1st and the 17th December. Mills will be joined by his Sussex team-mate Chris Jordan in this sequence of five T20 matches against their counterparts.

Simply hit play on the video above to hear the thoughts of pace ace Mills as he reflected on his first season with Sussex, and looked ahead to his winter schedule with the EPP and Lions.

England Performance Programme 2015/2016

Batting and spin camp in Dubai (11th November – 1st December)

Zafar Ansari (Surrey)
Danny Briggs (Sussex)
Joe Clarke (Worcestershire)
Liam Dawson (Hampshire)
Daniel Bell-Drummond (Kent)
Ben Foakes (Surrey)
Dawid Malan (Middlesex)
Stephen Parry (Lancashire)
Tom Westley (Essex)
Ross Whiteley (Worcestershire)
James Vince (Hampshire)

Fast bowling camp in Potchefstroom, South Africa (11th – 23rd November) followed by Dubai (24th November – 1st December)

Jake Ball (Nottinghamshire)
Tom Curran (Surrey)
Mark Footitt (Surrey)
Craig Miles (Gloucestershire)
Tymal Mills (Sussex)
Craig Overton (Somerset)
Jamie Overton (Somerset)

England Lions v Pakistan ‘A’ T20 squad, Dubai (1st – 17th December)

Zafar Ansari (Surrey)
Jake Ball (Nottinghamshire)
Sam Billings (Kent)
Joe Clarke (Worcestershire)
Daniel Bell-Drummond (Kent)
Ben Foakes (Surrey)
Chris Jordan (Sussex)
Dawid Malan (Middlesex)
Tymal Mills (Sussex)
Stephen Parry (Lancashire)
Reece Topley (Hampshire)
Tom Westley (Essex)
Ross Whiteley (Worcestershire)
James Vince (Hampshire, captain)