Thirteen-year-old Callum Guest will play for the London & East region in the four-team ECB Regional Tournament at Taunton next week.

The 13-strong London & East squad, formerly known as South of England, will play three matches against the North, West and Midlands.

For the last two years, Callum has been part of the Emerging Players Programme and from this was forwarded with three other Sussex players to attend trials for London & East from April.

He has trained in Middlesex throughout the summer along with other elite boys from counties as far north as Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, and had his place confirmed last weekend.

Callum also captained the Sussex team to a third consecutive victory in an under-13s English Schools Cricket Association-run event in Taunton last week.

The former Little Common Primary School pupil, who now attends St Bede's School, topped the batting and bowling averages for Sussex last year.