England's ODI lineup after World Cup

[TT Boy]

In an ideal world:

Trescothick
Benning
Trott
KP
Flintoff
Collingwood
Read/Pothas
Blackwell
T.Smith
Mascheranas
Anderson

Tom Smith has been axed and sent to Lancashire’s seconds, correct?

 

[Richard]

Dav assures us he's injured, which is a relief as if he were being left-out in favour of Steven Croft, Steven Mullaney and Oliver Newby I might just give-up following this game.

DB? Wanna do the Rafter to my Agassi again?

 

[TT Boy]

Dav assures us he's injured, which is a relief as if he were being left-out in favour of Steven Croft, Steven Mullaney and Oliver Newby I might just give-up following this game.

DB? Wanna do the Rafter to my Agassi again?

Cricinfo seemed to believe Smith was dropped after showing a lack of 'rhythm'. Which is surprising for supposedly he was a stand out bowler in the winter.

Although, considering Mahmood was selected whilst playing for Lancashire's seconds, Smith probably has a great chance.

 

[Richard]

Congrats on the 4 grand, BTW.

I'd really, really not want to see Smith picked for England while in the Seconds but if he seriously has been demoted below all 3 said bowlers, well...

Let's just hope he "regains rhythm" sometime soon.

 

[TT Boy]

batty, ball, middlebrook, udal ,dalrymple and yardy were about as good as it got in limited overs domestic cricket last year for spinners. sadly we are hardly spoilt for choice.

Let Vaughan bowl, bat him at ten.

In regard to Yardy (Richard's point), his novelty factor of bowling 65mph flat soon wore off . Play him as a (very slow) medium pacer and his effectively finished, Pakistan made the grave mistake of playing for turn.

 

[TT Boy]

Congrats on the 4 grand, BTW.
I'd really, really not want to see Smith picked for England while in the Seconds but if he seriously has been demoted below all 3 said bowlers, well...

Let's just hope he "regains rhythm" sometime soon.

Cheers.

 

[Richard]

In regard to Yardy (Richard's point), his novelty factor of bowling 65mph flat soon wore off . Play him as a (very slow) medium pacer and his effectively finished, Pakistan made the grave mistake of playing for turn.

Not sure. Yardy actually did turn it in those 2 Pakistan games - more than he's ever done in his life.

I too don't believe he'll make anything as a ODI bowler, but the fact remains that we don't have the quality to go discarding players with his record - it was only 1 bad game he had after all. You never know, miracles do happen every now and then.

 

[superkingdave]

Tom Smith was left out of the first championship game (he played seconds that week - Newby by accounts had been impressive on preseason tour) but since then he's been out with a stomach injury.

If he wasn't injured he would surely have been given a game in either the UCCE game last week or the Second XI game which was played at the same time.