During the Aus Inida ODI Sky Sports UK displayed the England team as:
Vaughan (C)
Cook
Strauss
Pietersen
Bell
Collingwood
Ambrose (W)
Sidebottom
Hoggard
Harmisson
Panesar
So no real suprises then.
Wierd. Need to swap Strauss and Vaughan around and Bell and Collingwood around IMO.
How typical, players from both sides have had big injury doubts already. Flintoff, Tremlett, and Franklin are unavailable for the rest of the tour, Sidebottom and Collingwood have had a minor injury each and Mason, O'Brien and Fulton are out for now and Gillespie is just back from injury. Mustard has copped a broken nose today, whos next? (Please Hoggard, please Hoggard
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Two spinner would be interesting, Patel has fallen away a bit, N. McCullum isn't much of a FC spinner, B. Martin isn't the spinner he was a few years ago, Lythe is a good player but not up to it and Houghton, Hira and Schaw are too young. Spose Patel is the best bet.
WRT wicketkeepers, personally think Hopkins would do OK in tests, its ODIs where he has batting troubles. His time is moving away fast though.
Reckon Oram might get the nod at five and Elliot at six? Oram is probably capable of batting at five and I think I heard/read something that Elliot might be debuting tommorrow. Spose Seddon Park from memory is your typical NZ pitch with plenty of help for medium pacers.
So gutted I'm going to miss most of this game TBH due to school commitments and going away for the weekend.