England Lions’ one-wicket win over India A in the fifth one-day game was a small consolation victory for the tourists, who succumbed to a 4-1 series defeat at the hands of a strong Indian side.

With the World Cup on the horizon, and both England and India standing as heavy favourites to win the tournament, the series, featuring the best of the rest for both teams, offered some key indicators of which players might make a late bolt for a World Cup berth.

Danny Briggs

Once tipped as a possible replacement for Graeme Swann at international level, Briggs never quite lived up to his early potential at Hampshire. However, since moving to Sussex he has been excellent in white-ball cricket. The left-arm spinner formed a key partnership with Rashid Khan in this year’s T20 Blast, and ended the 2018 One-Day Cup as his county’s leading wicket-taker.

While it seems as though Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal are the main spinners for India going into the World Cup, with Ravindra Jadeja not far behind, Patel may well have pushed ahead of Krunal Pandya as next cab off the rank.