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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 19:06:49 GMT
To be announced tomorrow.
Compiling the usual ECB leaks, it seems Tich Taylor will captain, and that Alex Hales and Jason Roy will open the batting; Sam Billings will keep and that Finn, Matt Dunn and Mark Foottitt will be among the seam bowlers. If they were smart, they'd select KP and bribe the umpires to saw him off for nowt. But they're not that clever.
My outside tips to make the squad: Ajmal Shahzad and, assuming they intend to select a spinner, Adam Riley.
England selector Gus Fraser watched Shahzad at Hove last week and was reportedly highly impressed.
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 28, 2015 12:38:17 GMT
Just announced on Twitter:
England squad to play Ireland:
Taylor Ansari Bairstow Billings Bresnan Finn Gregory Hales Roy Vince Willey
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A number of players will be added to the England squad following selection for the third Test against West Indies beginning on Friday May 1
Taylor is confirmed as Captain, and presumably Adil Rashid and Adam Lyth will get the gallant runner-up consolation prize of a box of toffees inclusion in the team that actually plays, so there isn't much that's clear about the new order of post-World Cup one-day team selection here.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 13:17:16 GMT
So England will not release Rashid early from his duties as drinks waiter to play proper four day cricket for Yorks. But they will release him early to play a meaningless one day game v Ireland. Lyth, Tredwell and Wood also likely to be released early and added to the squad, I'd guess.
We don't actually need a 15 man squad for a one dayer in Ireland, of course. But what's that got to do with anything?
Odd that they've already agreed to release Bairstow but not the other Caribbean tourists. But it is rerassuring to know that Jos Buttler is injury-proof!
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Post by fraudster on Apr 28, 2015 19:48:09 GMT
Ansari? Bresnan? I'd leave Finn well alone for now as well. Rankin for Tests? He's better than Broad or Jordan. Honestly think we'll have CJ for the rest of the season after this Windies tour.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 20:13:46 GMT
Ansari? Bresnan? I'd leave Finn well alone for now as well. Rankin for Tests? He's better than Broad or Jordan. Honestly think we'll have CJ for the rest of the season after this Windies tour.Jonathan Agnew - and reluctantly me in my heart of hearts - tends to agree with you on that. Which means Sussex's LVCC side will have the luxury of picking four from Maggofin, Shahzad, Jordan, Mills, Hobden, Robinson, Anyon and Hatchett, without even considering white-ball specialists such as Liddle and Piolet. I'd guess perhaps three of that ten won't be at Sussex in 2016. Not because we don't want them, but because they are all decent performers and deserve regular first-team cricket, if not at Hove then somewhere else. I think it is called un embarras de richesses.
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Post by hhsussex on May 8, 2015 14:07:03 GMT
The rain seems to be general all over Ireland, as James Joyce almost said, which is a pity for the other Joyce, and for James Taylor. His scratch team looked to be working well there and there have been some encouraging comments on his field placings.
A pity too that Sam Billings is getting the "you're in the squad but we really don't want to play you cos we're sticking with the guy we've seen already" syndrome. Bit silly to have two wicketkeeper-batsmen in the squad and not play them in either category, but possibly they've embarrassed themselves so much over Adil Rashid they had to play him - which in turn casts doubt on why Ansari was picked.
If the leaks about Moores' imminent departure are true then we may never know what was planned for this team, but it does look like several compromises patched together. Not so much a new beginning as a continuation of the old muddle and hope for the best, with a bit of cynical stuff about "it's only Ireland" thrown in.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 15:10:43 GMT
You are probably right, hh.
I'd presume Billings wasn't picked because the poor lad can't buy a run at the moment; in a way I'm rather glad he didn't play because over the years we've seen so many young players who England hesitated to introduce while they were in the form of their life, only to go and pick them when they've gone off the boil. Result: they 'fail' and a promising career is set back, if not completely derailed.
Hope they don't announce the appointment of Strauss tonight. I really don't think I can stomach the return of two Tory Head Boys in one day.
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