Wednesday 29 October 2014 09:08, UK
The captain of England’s visually impaired cricket team says they head to South Africa next month looking to win the World Cup.
Matt Dean will lead a 17-man squad for the fourth One-day International Blind Cricket World Cup.
Six uncapped players have been selected in the squad, who will be looking to build on their third-place finish at the T20 tournament.
England will begin their campaign against Sri Lanka on November 27, followed by games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, India and Bangladesh.
“It would be a dream to be a world champion. Yes we are looking to improve, you always are, but our goal is to win it,” Dean told the ECB's official website.
“We recently played some players who used to play in our team and the first thing they said was that this lot were talented.
"We’ve got a group of 17-20 year-olds that are far beyond any players that we have had before at that age.
“In three or four years' time if they are still playing, we’ll quite easily be the most experienced and talented side in the world and that’s an exciting prospect.”
Ed Hossell (Somerset VICC), Jason Aughton (Somerset) and Kelvin Duncan (Sussex Sharks) are included in the squad for the first time while there are also places for three uncapped players, Mark Bond (London Metro), Ryan Jones (London Metro) and Jimmy Millard (Sussex Sharks).
Two-time defending champions Pakistan are the favourites while rivals India won the inaugural Blind World Twenty20 on home turf in 2012.
