Jordan Cox has been rewarded for his Player-of-the-Tournament display in the Men's Hundred with a belated call-up to England's T20I squad to face Ireland later this month.

Cox, 24, topped the Hundred averages with 367 runs at 61.16, and a strike-rate of 173.93, as Oval Invincibles lifted the trophy for the third consecutive season with an emphatic 26-run victory over Trent Rockets in the final at Lord's on Sunday.

Cox himself made 40 from 28 balls in the final, after which he said he would continue to "bang the England door down", after a series of luckless near-misses in recent months, including a broken thumb sustained on the eve of his designated Test debut in New Zealand, and a side strain sustained while making a century for Essex earlier this summer.

He has previously played tw

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