T20 World Cup blow for James Vince as he is dropped from England squad to tour South Africa

James Vince in action for England during last month's T20 series win in New Zealand

The Hampshire batsman has been left out of the 16-man England squad chosen to tour South Africa next February.

That was despite playing in four of the five matches in England’s 3-2 series win in New Zealand last month.

Tom Banton, Sam Billings, Lewis Gregory and Saqib Mahmood also played in New Zealand but have been left out of the South African squad as Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali and Jason Roy all return.

Vince might consider himself harshly done by; he was man of the match in the first T20 against New Zealand, top scoring with 59, his maiden T20 international half-century, and he was second top scorer with 49 in the third game.

In his other two innings, though, he only managed a single run in each.

Vince is the eighth highest-scoring Englishman in history in terms of T20 cricket with 5,262 runs from 191 innings. For comparison purposes, that is 262 more runs than Roy has scored, and from three fewer innings.

The seven Englishmen who have scored more are Luke Wright (7,588), Ravi Bopara (6,733), Alex Hales (6,334), Eoin Morgan (6,185), Jos Buttler (5,7-8), Kevin Pietersen (5,695) and Owais Shah (5,509).

The 2020 T20 World Cup takes place in Australia next October and November and England will be aiming for their second win – 10 years after the first.

Neither Vince or Hampshire colleague Liam Dawson have made the 16-man squad for the ODIs in South Africa either.

Both men were members of last summer’s 15-man World Cup winning squad.

Vince played three group games when Roy was injured, but failed to take his chance - making 26 against Afghanistan, 16 against Sri Lanka and a second-ball duck against Australia.

Dawson won the last of his three ODI caps against Pakistan in October of last year.

Worcestershire seamer Pat Brown, Somerset batsman Banton and the Lancashire duo of Matthew Parkinson and Mahmood are included in the ODI squad for the first time.

England ODI squad: Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Tom Banton (Somerset), Pat Brown (Worcestershire), Sam Curran (Surrey), Tom Curran (Surrey), Joe Denly (Kent), Chris Jordan (Sussex), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Dawid Malan (Yorkshire), Matthew Parkinson (Lancashire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire).

England T20 squad: Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Jofra Archer (Sussex), Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Pat Brown (Worcestershire), Sam Curran (Surrey), Tom Curran (Surrey), Joe Denly (Kent), Chris Jordan (Sussex), Dawid Malan (Yorkshire), Matt Parkinson (Lancashire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Ben Stokes (Durham), Mark Wood (Durham).