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    England name squad for Sri Lanka tour

    By Jonathan Liew last year, mid-October Leave a comment on this post

    England have named their squad for the tour of Sri Lanka, and it’s pretty much as predicted:

    Vaughan, Cook, Bell, Pietersen, Collingwood, Shah, Bopara, Mustard, Prior, Broad, Hoggard, Anderson, Sidebottom, Swann, Panesar.

    Some initial thoughts:

    1) It’s pretty harsh on Chris Tremlett, who hasn’t really put a foot wrong yet for England. Unless – gasp! – they’re punishing him unfairly for his indifferent one-day form.

    2) If the selectors were going to drop Strauss they should have replaced him with another opener, rather than naming three number sixes and promoting Vaughan, who doesn’t even want to open.

    3) If both of Harmison’s practice games get rained off, where does that leave him?

    4) Either Broad or Swann has to bat at number eight. Which means that, cruelly, one of Anderson or Sidebottom has to sit out. Or both, if Harmison waltzes back into the team. In other words, all three pacemen from the India series could be left out in favour of someone who wasn’t even good enough to make the side at the time. Hmmm.

    5) The fact that Mustard has been named in the full squad, rather than placed on standby in Chennai, is hardly a resounding vote of confidence in Prior. Is Mustard, in fact, the reserve opening batsman?

    What are everyone else’s thoughts?

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    One Response to “England name squad for Sri Lanka tour”

  • pseudoKu wrote:
    October 19th, 2007 at 5.17 pm

    Although I’m not an England supporter I have an opinion :D

    I think Tremlett missed out because England picked two spinners, which is the right way to go considering its Sri Lanka! Pick Monty and Swann for every test I say.

    The team in batting order: Bell, Cook, Vaughan, Pietersen, Collingwood, Bopara, Prior, Swann, Anderson, Harmison, Monty.

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