[Matt_Horton]

Super Duper Cricket: ENG v WI : Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:17 am  

Well, England have named their squad.

No Vaughan and no Bell.

Call ups for Tim Bresnan and Graham Onions.

Swann preferred to Monty.

Squad in full: Andrew Strauss (capt), James Anderson, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Graham Onions, Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Graeme Swann.


Do this make you confident for the bigger task ahead at the end of the year?

Re: Super Duper Cricket: ENG v WI : Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:35 am  

Oldham Rhino wrote:

Swann preferred to Monty.

Squad in full: Andrew Strauss (capt), James Anderson, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Graham Onions, Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Graeme Swann.

Bit surprised as I thought the ECB would take the first chance they got to bring Vaughan back.

[Matt_Horton]

: Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:37 am  

Pffft.

It'll teach me for using the BBC website as a reliable source.

Re: Super Duper Cricket: ENG v WI : Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:01 am  

The Penguin wrote:

:?

Bit surprised as I thought the ECB would take the first chance they got to bring Vaughan back.

If he had scored any runs they may well have done

: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:18 am  

Overdue for Bresnan - had a good all-round season last year and has taken wickets at the start of this season.

If the intention is to bat Prior at 6 and Broad at 7 then having Bresnan at 8 would back the middle order up a bit too.

: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:09 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Overdue for Bresnan - had a good all-round season last year and has taken wickets at the start of this season.

If the intention is to bat Prior at 6 and Broad at 7 then having Bresnan at 8 would back the middle order up a bit too.

I think Prior's a racing cert to bat at 6, so Bresnan does help bolster the batting, I could even see him batting at 7.

As for the rest - a big test for Ravi having to bat at 3, especially this early in the season when the balls liable to do a bit more, but he deserves his chance. Also pleased that they've gone for Onions over Harmison, which is an easy decision on form, but we all know how that's not been the case over the past few years.

Re: Super Duper Cricket: ENG v WI : Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:45 pm  

Oldham Rhino wrote:

Squad in full: Andrew Strauss (capt), James Anderson, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Graham Onions, Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Graeme Swann.

Do this make you confident for the bigger task ahead at the end of the year?

That makes for a worryingly long tail. Only five specialist batsmen, including one (Bopara) who remains unestablished at Test level. I'm pleased to see Onions called up. He's the best current English fast bowler yet to win a Test cap IMO - Seems to have been rather injury prone in recent years though.

Seeing that selection I'm not especially confident for the bigger series later in the summer, though having said that we picked a relatively young side with a long-ish tail for the victorious 2005 series.

Re: Super Duper Cricket: ENG v WI : Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:04 pm  

airliebird9 wrote:

If he had scored any runs they may well have done

...and he's out for 5 today too!!

: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:20 pm  

Lord_Percy wrote:

I think Prior's a racing cert to bat at 6, so Bresnan does help bolster the batting, I could even see him batting at 7.

As for the rest - a big test for Ravi having to bat at 3, especially this early in the season when the balls liable to do a bit more, but he deserves his chance. Also pleased that they've gone for Onions over Harmison, which is an easy decision on form, but we all know how that's not been the case over the past few years.

The batting order looks very weak for me. Bopara I don't think will ever be a no.3 and with Prior at 6 it puts way too much pressure on the others. Bresnan and Broad would help to pad out the tail but it still looks weak to me.

I'm surprised at Onions, he was injured a lot last season and he has only played 1/2 games so far this season.

: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:25 pm  

Prior's greatly improved it seems and deserves a decent run at 6. Bopara doesn't strike me as a natural number three but lets give him a chance and see what happens. Owais Shah had his and blew it, the fidgety sod.