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Injuries mean England may have to select an inexperienced pace attack when they reveal their World Twenty20 squad at 1300 BST on Wednesday.
Graham Onions, Liam Plunkett, Dimitri Mascarenhas and Ryan Sidebottom may all be unavailable because of injury.
Tim Bresnan, Steven Finn, Ajmal Shahzad, Chris Woakes, Sajid Mahmood and Peter Trego are in contention.
Paul Collingwood's 15-man squad is expected to contain seamers Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Luke Wright.
The tournament takes place in the West Indies from 30 April to 16 May.
Bresnan and Shahzad were in England's last Twenty20 team, against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, and so are the most obvious pace bowling candidates.
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There are plenty of other areas of discussion for the selectors, including whether to pick both wicketkeeper-batsmen in Craig Kieswetter and Matt Prior.
Kieswetter is being tipped for a place at the top of the order and, with the uncapped Michael Lumb impressing in the IPL, incumbents Joe Denly and Jonathan Trott are both looking vulnerable.
Ravi Bopara could also be in the reckoning and will doubtless be eyeing a recall, along with back-up middle-order batsman Owais Shah.
Both could have done with stronger starts to this year's Indian Premier League and although that also applies to Eoin Morgan, he is nonetheless a sure-fire selection after a clutch of match-winning contributions for England.
The slow pitches in the Caribbean mean spin may have an important role to play in the tournament, although medium pacers such as captain Collingwood and Bopara could also prosper.
Graeme Swann should fill the number one spinner role, while James Treadwell heads the list to provide back-up, although the Yorkshire pair of David Wainwright and Adil Rashid are also in contention.
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