[n 1] The players were considered to be on the fringes of selection for the England cricket team.
The team played one match which was rated as first-class against the touring Indians in August 1990.
The team included future Test cricketers Martin Bicknell, Richard Blakey, Richard Illingworth, Tim Munton, and Graham Thorpe.
[2] The remainder of the team consisting of Paul Johnson, Stuart Lampitt, Keith Medlycott and Nadeem Shahid would never play at international level.
[3] The teams only first-class match against the Indians ended in a draw, with Indian batsman Sanjay Manjrekar and Navjot Sidhu both scoring centuries, a feat also achieved by the Under-25s XI captain John Stephenson.