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England Under-19s’ crossbar challenge
By Will 2 months ago, 1 Comment »
You’ll have to be really bored to watch this, but as I’m wide awake when I should be asleep in prep for tonight’s Test, it’s been the perfect tonic. Hilarious nicknames that they’ve all got, and it’s good to see the complete lack of political correctness among the squad. It was uploaded by James “The sheep” Harris who, unless you’re completely ignorant, hails from Glamorgan…
Click here or here if you can’t see it above.
1 Comment »England’s reserves
By Will last year, at the start of December, 1 Comment »
The news came through today that Billy Godleman, the Middlesex batsman and James Harris, Glamorgan’s 17-year-old fast bowler have both been called up to England’s academy squad in India. Or, to give them their new and irritatingly forgettable title, the England Performance Programme (EPP) squad. What a stupid, stupid name for a team that is. What was wrong with National Academy? Anyway.
Here’s how the ECB describe the EPP. “The purpose of the EPP is to provide world class support for the England team, currently in Sri Lanka for the Test series and to provide an ideal environment for players to progress with their individual development.”
That’s quite some statement when you consider just who England have to call upon, and how inexperienced they are.
Moeen Ali – Worcestershire
Tim Ambrose – Warwickshire
Tim Bresnan – Yorkshire
Michael Carberry – Hampshire
Steven Davies – Worcestershire
Joe Denly – Kent
James Hildreth – Somerset
Graham Onions – Durham
Adil Rashid - Yorkshire
Chris Schofield – Surrey
James Tredwell – Kent
Chris Tremlett – Hampshire
Jonathan Trott – Warwickshire
Luke Wright - Sussex
James Harris - Glamorgan
Steve Finn - Middlesex
Billy Godleman - Middlesex
Of course they don’t have to call upon just this lot, and they’re in India for their own development as much as cover for the senior side. But it’s always interesting to see who the selectors consider to be future England batsman and bowlers. Matt Prior needs a good tour in Sri Lanka…Tim Ambrose is a little bit good.
1 Comment »Thanks, Fred, and goodnight
By Jonathan Liew last year, mid-September, 5 Comments »
So that’s probably it for Freddie, then. Whatever drivel the ECB can try and spin about his ankle needing time “to settle and recover before the process of further strengthening and assessment is intensified†– medico-speak for “he’s done it in again†– it’s probably safe to assume that a man on the wrong side of 30 who has played just one of his team’s last four Test series isn’t really one for the future. It’s time to look beyond.
Probably most likely to step into the breach in the short-term is Ravi Bopara. But he’s untried at Test level and despite knocking Mike Hussey over on his ODI debut, it’s hard to imagine him knocking over Test sides with his gentle trundlers off a short run. Similarly Paul Collingwood, who encouragingly hasn’t let snaffling Sourav Ganguly on a lucky LBW shout go to his head.
So let’s look to the current crop of youngsters. There’s Adil Rashid, who scored his first Championship century this season, and team-mate Tim Bresnan, who has fought back well from being Jayasuriya’s bitch last summer. Younger still, there’s Alex Wakely at Northants and James Harris at Glamorgan. For some of these it looks like the next Ashes in 2009 will come a bit soon (Harris was born in 1990, for heaven’s sake), while none of them really looks like a potential Test number six. But then again, nor does Freddie at the moment.
Who does everyone think will end up filling Fred’s specially-modified boots? A batsman? A bowler? Or is it time David Graveney got Mark Ealham back on the phone?
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