Englands 30 Man Provisional Squad:
Anderson (Lancs),
Bell (Warwicks),
Bopara (Essex),
Bresnan (Yorks),
Broad (Leics)
Chapple (Lancs)
Collingwood (Durham, capt),
Cook (Essex),
Flintoff (Lancs),
Kirtley (Sussex),
Lewis (Glos),
Loye (Lancs),
Maddy (Warwicks),
Mascarenhas (Hants),
Nixon (Leics),
Panesar (Northants),
Pettini (Essex),
Pietersen (Hants),
Plunkett (Durham),
Prior (Sussex),
Schofield (Surrey),
Shah (Middx),
Sidebottom (Notts),
Snape (Leics),
Solanki (Worcs),
Tremlett (Hants),
Trescothick (Somerset),
Trott (Warwicks),
Wright (Sussex),
Yardy (Sussex)
Not a majorly surprising list , when your going to pick 30 players , you sometimes can't avoid some of the players that we desperatly need to see in the 20Twenty squad. But the unfortunate thing is that the selectors could still go with the same dross that played , and surprisingly ran close , the West Indies a couple of weeks ago.
The first thing I want to know is how on earth did the selectors gloss over Nayan Doshi. The first bowler to fifty 20/20 wickets , and he can't even get into the provisional side. And Chris Schofield got in ahead of him? Are these selectors of their heads...
Anyway , on the positive side. Marcus Trescothick is back , which is a good thing , whether he will make himself avaliable for the actaul tournement is yet another matter, Mal Loye and Darren Maddy , at last , those three should be the top 3. With Trescothick probably at number 3?.
Jeremy Snape aswell. It kind of makes up for the lack of Doshi.
But all of this is sort of Irrelavent. When the squad is slimmed down , will the likes of Loye , Maddy and Snape get selected for the main squad? Will the selectors finally realise how bad Matt Prior really is and go for Nixon?
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