 At the end of the season he was voted Players' Player of the Year at the Professional Cricketers' Association awards, beating team mate Matt Henry and Surrey batsman Rory Burns and was called into the England squad for the first time since 2010.Denly played for England age group sides from under-17 to under-19 levels, scoring three half-centuries in consecutive matches for the under-19s in India in 2005.He captained the ECB Development of Excellence team and first played for England Lions in 2007.