SIX Yorkshiremen, including York’s Jonny Bairstow, will try to rebuild England’s flagging reputation on next month’s three-Test match tour of the West Indies.

Wicketkeeper Bairstow, leg-spinning all-rounder Adil Rashid, and opening batsman Adam Lyth have been picked to tour alongside more established county colleagues Gary Ballance, Liam Plunkett and Joe Root.

The England selectors have named a new-look 16-man squad to travel to the Caribbean between April 2 and May 5, including uncapped Durham quick Mark Wood and returning batsman Jonathan Trott.

Trott had suffered from anxiety since playing the last of his 49 Tests in November 2013.

Rashid and Bairstow return after five-and-a-half and a one-and-a-half years away from international cricket respectively, while Plunkett is back after an ankle injury forced him to miss the second half of 2014.

Opening batsman Lyth has been rewarded for his stunning County Championship form last summer, and he or Trott will open with captain Alastair Cook following Sam Robson’s omission.

Rashid and off-spinner James Tredwell will fight it out to be the senior spinner with Moeen Ali injured. Bairstow will provide back-up to Jos Buttler.

The selections provide Yorkshire with an early season availability headache as all players will miss the first three Championship matches.

Bairstow, Lyth, Plunkett and Rashid are, however, available to face the MCC in Sunday’s champion county match in Abu Dhabi, with Cook in opposition.

Despite winning their most recent Test series 3-1 against India at home last summer, England find themselves under enormous pressure following their recent one-day World Cup nightmare.

“Clearly English cricket got itself in a position at the end of last summer by beating India 3-1 - we got a bit of that feel good factor back,” said Cook.

“What’s happened this winter, there’s a bit of doom and gloom about English cricket.

“We’ve got the responsibility as a Test side to go out and try to change that and start turning it around again.

“We built that momentum a little bit after the Ashes 14 or 15 months ago with a slightly younger side, including the likes of Gary Ballance and Joe Root.

“There was a good feel good factor about the English game in the middle of August after the Test matches. Since then, it’s been tough going.”

Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale added: “Great to see our lads get further recognition. Five out of six came through our own Academy. Great testament to the club.

“Yes, it will be tough without them, but it’s an opportunity for the next young lads to show their skills.”

England squad: Cook (c), Anderson, Bairstow, Ballance, Bell, Broad, Buttler, Jordan, Lyth, Plunkett, Root, Rashid, Stokes, Tredwell, Trott, Wood.