ENGLAND'S Hong Kong Sixes skipper, Graham Gooch, has called former Test player Gladstone Small into his squad for next week's tournament.
Small, the 31-year-old Barbados-born Warwickshire paceman, and Essex all-rounder John Stephenson have been confirmed as replacements for Chris Lewis and Matthew Maynard, who had to withdraw from the original squad after being selected for England's wintertour of the West Indies.
Originally, Stephenson and Gloucestershire's Mark Alleyne were lined up as replacements but Gooch preferred Small to Alleyne.
All seven England representatives in the Cathay Pacific and Wharf Holdings-sponsored Sixes, which take place at the Kowloon Cricket Club on October 1-2, are now Test players, with Small and Stephenson joining Gooch, Phillip DeFreitas, Neil Fairbrother, John Emburey and Dermot Reeve.
India, last year's runners-up to Pakistan, will fancy their chances of going one better this time now that all-rounder Ravi Shastri has been added to the squad.
Shastri, whose left-arm spin bowling and forceful batting swept India into the final, was missing from the official team list two weeks ago because the Sixes clashed with a domestic fixture in India - which has now been cancelled.
Organisers Cricket World International have also finalised team colours for the event.