o Samuels and Edwards ready to face England Lionso Essex reduce Kent to 17 for five in county championshipWest Indies may have a couple of their more familiar names available to make their first appearances of the tour in the four-day match against England Lions that starts in Northampton on Thursday. The experienced batsman Marlon Samuels has arrived from the Indian Premier League and the fast bowler Fidel Edwards is said to have shaken off the back problem that ruled him out of the opening tour fixture against Sussex.Assad Fudadin, a 26-year-old batsman from Guyana, has also been cleared to play against the Lions after being granted a visa. But the left-hander Narsingh Deonarine has still to receive his clearance, meaning he would have to go straight into next week`s first Test without a warm-up match, if selected.`I`m quite pleased to see Marlon and Fudadin this morning,` said Darren Sammy, the captain, in Northampton on Wednesday. `The whole family is united and now we are preparing ourselves for the first Test match.`The Lions are picking from a 12-man squad including Ian Bell, who was keen to play another match before the Test after the Durham all-rounder Ben Stokes was forced to withdraw because of back problems.Most of Bell`s likely team-mates at Lord`s next week were frustrated on the first day of the latest round of County Championship fixtures. Matt Prior and Tim Bresnan endured complete washouts at Hove and Bristol respectively, and Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara must have been pleased that Essex won the toss in the Division Two match at Chelmsford, as even though fewer than 10 overs were possible, Kent slumped to 17 for five - Charl Willoughby, the South African left-armer who joined Essex from Somerset in the winter, earning figures of four for eight.Steven Finn and Graham Onions, who are thought to be battling with Bresnan to join James Anderson and Stuart Broad in the England seam attack, each had a bowl, but without spectacular success. Finn took ...
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