THE Overton twins Craig and Jamie will meet up with their new England colleagues for the first time at Trent Bridge, hoping to join them next in the middle against New Zealand.

It has been a whirlwind sequence of events already for the 21-year-old brothers from Devon, since Saturday lunchtime.

First, the three-minute-older Craig was called into England's Royal London Series squad as a replacement for Chris Jordan before the third one-day international at the Ageas Bowl.

Then, within 48 hours, Jamie too took a call from national selector James Whitaker informing him he was needed as well in place of Liam Plunkett.

So the Somerset pair will reconvene not for the LV= County Championship Division One match against Nottinghamshire at Taunton but instead at the home of the midlands county - where England will begin their bid to overturn a 2-1 deficit, with two matches to play.

Should the identical Overtons make it out of the nets and into the thick of the action - and it is still a long shot perhaps, because they will need to displace incumbents Steven Finn, Mark Wood or David Willey - they will become the first twins to play together for England.

The quicker bowler and harder-hitting batsman of the pair, Jamie's assessment of the past two days tends towards understatement.

"It's been an interesting week for all of us," he said, having had to break off during two 2nd XI matches away to Middlesex and set off pronto up the M1. "I gave Craig a ring and said I'd see him in Nottingham. Then I spoke to our parents, and obviously they are very happy as well."

The Overtons have been edging closer to England's plans for the past three seasons, Jamie part of the squad for a one-day international series at home to Australia in 2013 and Craig forced to leave the Lions tour of South Africa last winter with an ankle injury.

They hit the headlines this summer too in a spectacular last-wicket stand against county champions Yorkshire at Taunton last month.

Even so, their dual promotion could not easily have been predicted.

Jamie added: "It was a bit different when Craig got the call on Saturday [on the team bus to Glamorgan], because he didn't have the right kit with him - so he had to ring up dad and arrange to get picked up and taken down to Southampton.

"Craig's been bowling fantastically, and his call-up was rightly deserved. I saw a stat the other day that he's the only player in the country who's taken 20 wickets at less than 20 as well as scoring 200 runs - which shows he's one of the best all-rounders [in England]."

Craig too has spotted his brother coming up on the rails again, after struggling last season.

"Jamie has been bowling quick," he said. "None of the boys have been looking forward to facing him in the nets, put it that way - especially me, because he always gives me a bit of extra brotherly love."

They have been playing cricket together from the age of five, on the boundary and then the square at their father's club North Devon, yet have teamed up so far in only nine first-class matches.

Craig said: "Mum and dad came down to Southampton [on Sunday] - and, although mum can't make it to Nottingham on Wednesday, I think dad will be coming up again, just in case."