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    One last look

    By Emma 2 years ago, mid-September Leave a comment on this post

    For the first time this one-day series, or any in recent memory, we can expect an unchanged line-up from England. Something to be celebrated!

    As well as providing Collingwood with his 100th ODI cap, tomorrow will also be the last England game before their Ashes squad, and Ashes captain, are announced next week. Strauss will certainly want a win to push his credentials. Test and one-day captaincy are certainly very different, but if Strauss responds with another captain’s innings tomorrow, it will help prove his ability to lead in a form where he had not until recently been a certain selection. But, of course, I wouldn’t like to tempt fate.

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    3 Responses to “One last look”

  • James wrote:
    September 9th, 2006 at 6.28 pm

    You don’t think they’ll want to try someone else in place of Mahmood?

  • Jeremy Freeman wrote:
    September 9th, 2006 at 7.03 pm

    Agree with James.

    You’ve got to drop Mahmood - he is a liability in the one day format.

  • Emma wrote:
    September 9th, 2006 at 8.26 pm

    Mahmood bowled well at the beginning of the game, and who else is there to try? Onions, who has never played a game for England and has not got a great one-day record himself, or Clarke. Better to have Mahmood, and bowl Lewis and Broad at the death, than trust the unproven and the proven worse.

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