Hampshire's Danny Briggs has been included in a 26-man England Performance Squad for the forthcoming international summer season.

The England Performance Squad, which is chosen by the England selectors, consists of the 13 centrally contracted players, four players who have been awarded incremental contracts and nine other players who have all been capped at senior international level.

Five players - Briggs, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Stuart Meaker and Ben Stokes - are included in the England Performance Squad for the first time.

ECB national selector Geoff Miller said: “We welcome the five new players to the squad and their inclusion reflects the progress they have all made with senior England teams and the England Lions over the last 12 months.

“The England Performance Squad is designed to allow the selectors to monitor the development of international players and better prepare them for the demands of the international game.

“We can name a total of 30 players in the EPS squad but have decided to name only 26 at this early stage of the season. We will keep this under review and may add additional players to the squad should individual performances merit it later in the summer.”

England Performance Squad 2012 Andrew Strauss (Middlesex) Test captain Alastair Cook (Essex) One-day captain Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire) Twenty20 captain James Anderson (Lancashire) Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire) Ian Bell (Warwickshire) Ravi Bopara (Essex) Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire) Danny Briggs (Hampshire) Jos Buttler (Somerset) Steven Davies (Surrey) Jade Dernbach (Surrey) Steven Finn (Middlesex) Craig Kieswetter (Somerset) Eoin Morgan (Middlesex) Stuart Meaker (Surrey) Graham Onions (Durham) Monty Panesar (Sussex) Samit Patel (Nottinghamshire) Kevin Pietersen (Surrey) Matt Prior (Sussex) Ben Stokes (Durham) Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire) James Tredwell (Kent) Chris Tremlett (Surrey) Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire)