After Ashes thrashing, which county players could break into England's Test team?

Three potential candidates are Hampshire's Mason Crane, Nottinghamshire's Joe Clarke and Middlesex's Tom Helm.

The series is over. It will take another four years for England to win in Australia.

We asked a group of players who were still involved in or recently retired from county cricket to pick the players who could break into the England Test team.

Pick your team and vote for the captain.

The batter is Joe Clarke.

I can't think of a better player in county cricket than Joe Clarke, who is yet to wear an England shirt. He already has the hallmarks of being a world-class player, but he hasn't pulled on the Three Lions yet.

He could play for England over the next three or four years if he goes down the franchise route, but he's a good enough T20 player.

His game is well-rounded in all of the formats. He has scored runs in the County Championship and has the tools to be successful in international cricket.

I would like to see him get an opportunity, but he needs to go and score hundreds in the Championship this season. He's a hell of a batter and the selectors need to look at him.

Phil Salt is an opener.

Stuart Law, a former Australia batter and ex-Middlesex coach, said that Saqib Mahmood has sheer pace and Jordan Cox is one to keep an eye on.

Phil Salt is a dark horse for me. He's a super-confident guy and he's at the top of the order.

He will be playing on a pitch that has pace and bounce, and will take some spin later in the Championship matches.

He should only get better from now on.

Hampshire has a leg-spinner named Mason Crane.

Mason Crane played one Test for England in the 2017-18 tour of Australia, but is still young and can play for England again in the future.

I believe he would return to international cricket in the white-ball format. He's improved his bowling style and is now very accurate. He has been helped by working at London Spirit.

He could progress into the red-ball set-up if he does well there. Coming through the limited-overs team is a good stepping stone.

Tom Haines is a batter.

With all the talk about county pitches and how difficult they are for batting, you have to look at who did score runs last season and who did it in the Championship.

I like how he looks to score, but I might be biased because he needs another year in domestic cricket. He's able to put the bad ball away even at the start of the game, and he's also able to weather good spells of bowling.

I would love to see him get an opportunity if he can back up what he did last year.

Tom Helm is a pace bowler.

Steven Finn said that Tom Helm has the pace, bounce, height and swing to trouble the best batters in the world.

He has the ability to bowl reverse-swing in the subcontinent and swing the Dukes ball, but he hasn't played enough cricket in the past couple of years to push his name forward for selection.

He has the skills to be successful in cricket.

Josh Bohannon is a batter.

Paul Farbrace is a former England assistant coach and a director of cricket. I've been watching him practice and he's made a lot of progress.

Josh Bohannon has a very simple technique and is well organised. Liam Norwell got five kills and Bohannon played him very well as he was batting on a decent bounce pitch.

He looks like he has everything to compete at the highest level. He looks like he's willing to get stuck in. He's very impressive.

He could make the step up to international cricket in the next 12 months.

Alex Lees is opening in Durham.

Alex Lees has been one of the best performing openers in the county game since he moved from Yorkshire to Durham.

He loves a challenge, has experience aged 28 and is very mentally strong, which you need to be at the top of the order.

He was on the England Lions tour of Australia in the winter.

Parkinson is a leg-spinner.

Paul Horton, a former captain of both Lancashire and Leicestershire, said that England haven't decided if Jack Leach is their best spin option and the next cab off the rank should be Matt Parkinson.

He and his brother are fierce competitors. The challenge of Test cricket was not something that would overwhelm him. He would relish the big stage if his skills were up to it.

He has done well in white-ball cricket for England and that should hold him in good stead.