ANDREW Gale says England should seriously consider picking Tim Bresnan for their forthcoming one-day World Cup campaign.

Bresnan's short-term deal to play in the Australian Twenty20 Big Bash League with Hobart Hurricanes in January will leave him in ideal shape for the tournament Down Under a little under a month later insists the Yorkshire captain.

And Gale also believes the all-rounder would provide coach Peter Moores with some much-needed experience in the bowling department.

Bresnan has signed for the second half of the Big Bash as a replacement for West Indian Darren Sammy, and he is expected to play four group matches and any potential finals series fixtures.

He leaves on Boxing Day before an expected debut on January 7 against Aaron Finch's Melbourne Renegades, who also showed some tentative interest in Bresnan's services.

Bresnan missed Yorkshire’s final LV= County Championship match of the season against Somerset in September with a torn pectoral muscle.

Although the 29-year-old’s last appearance for England came at the World T20 in Bangladesh in late March, he has been named by Moores in his provisional 30 for the World Cup, which starts on February 14.

The 30 will be cut to a final 15 upon England’s return from Sri Lanka later this month.

“I’ve been saying it for the last few weeks, I think now that he’s back to full fitness, I’d take him to the World Cup,” said Gale.

“If he goes out there and plays four or five Big Bash games, he’ll be fit and raring to go. He’ll do well out there in that competition. He won’t let anyone down, Hobart or England.

“The way England have been performing at the minute, with particular inexperience in the bowling attack, I think he’d fit in really well.”

The spell with the Hurricanes will be Bresnan’s first taste of domestic cricket abroad, although he has toured Australia numerous times in the past, most recently with England for last winter’s disastrous Ashes tour.

“I think Finchy was sniffing around him when he was with us here in the summer, but Hobart were the first to come in, and I think it’s a great move for him and for them,” added Gale.

“With Brez, you know exactly what you’re getting. I’m sure he will do well with bat and ball. He’s an experienced campaigner, and it’s no coincidence that every team he goes into seems to win things.”