***Official** West Indies in England***

[Burgey]

How far away is Simon Jones from a return?

 

[Nishant]

Twenty20 is quite damn right (not that I'm terribly bothered what happens to the team there), but I cringe at the thought of Nixon playing ODIs from now on, even while I appreciate very much the job he did last winter and have always anticipated that he might be retained beyond the realms of wise.

yep.....i would have thought that he would play test cricket and a youger player would take over in ODIs and 20/20 cricket.

 

[Poker Boy]

How far away is Simon Jones from a return?

Well as he hasn't played a CC match yet, I'd say a while yet (he did play in a FP match on Friday at Hove but bowled just 2.4 overs before rain came).

 

[four_or_six]

Here we go again...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6654107.stm

 

[Richard]

Good spot, f_o_s, thanks...

 

[four_or_six]

Good spot, f_o_s, thanks...

 

[Richard]

I often need people to prod me...

 

[four_or_six]

I often need people to prod me...

Oooo, that's cool

 

[GIMH]

Kevin Pietersen's fitness is not yet guranteed.


Might wanna fix your typo there Rich

 

[Richard]

A common one, that is...

 

[Richard]

Haha. I hope no-one saw the rather large faux-pas that somehow happened in the course of correcting guaranteed...

 

[FBU]

How far away is Simon Jones from a return?

He bowled in a second XI game

17-6-49-1
8-0-48-0

FPT figures
3 games 22.4-2-130-3 Average 43.33 econ 5.73 s/r 45.3

 

[Richard]

Nothing out of the ordinary, really.

The domestic scene has never been one where Jones has profited - for some very strange reason. Only once he gets back into Test cricket will we see whether or not he is still the same bowler.

 

[FBU]

With Flintoff and his dodgy ankle they think he might play as a batsman only which I don't think is a good idea.

We should go with the following which is almost identical to the team that won the series against Pakistan last year except Read/Jones have been replaced with Prior.

1 Strauss
2 Cook
3 Shah
4 Pietersen
5 Collingwood
6 Bell
7 Prior
8 Plunkett
9 Harmison
10 Hoggard
11 Panesar

 

[FBU]

Nothing out of the ordinary, really.

The domestic scene has never been one where Jones has profited - for some very strange reason. Only once he gets back into Test cricket will we see whether or not he is still the same bowler.

I think he should be ready for India later in the summer.

 

[Richard]

With Flintoff and his dodgy ankle they think he might play as a batsman only which I don't think is a good idea.

We should go with the following which is almost identical to the team that won the series against Pakistan last year except Read/Jones have been replaced with Prior.

1 Strauss
2 Cook
3 Shah
4 Pietersen
5 Collingwood
6 Bell
7 Prior
8 Plunkett
9 Harmison
10 Hoggard
11 Panesar

If you're going to pick Flintoff as a specialist bat, well... you might as well pick Paul Nixon as one.

In such a team, though, I'd personally prefer to see Bell at three than Shah. Not that either are especially more suited to the role, just that Bell is a more established player.

Personally, of course, I'd be happy enough to see that team with Flintoff instead of Plunkett.

 

[Anna]

BBC Sports Player: West Indies hampered by bad weather

I was standing only a short distance behind the camera in Sarwan's line of vision when this was filmed

Haha, Dwayne Bravo cracks me up.

 

[FBU]

Bell has got three hundreds at number six. Shah is a natural number three and that is where he played in India.

What good is Flintoff if he can't bowl and is out of form with the bat whereas Plunkett is in good form with both.

 

[Richard]

Even out of form, Flintoff's still inestimatably better than Plunkett with the bat though.

 

[Prince EWS]

Personally, of course, I'd be happy enough to see that team with Flintoff instead of Plunkett.

Only if Flintoff is able to bowl, I hope...