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England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) managing director of cricket Hugh Morris says that England are to go down the road of using a rotation policy to keep key players fresh.
His words come after Andrew Strauss, Paul Collingwood and James Anderson were allowed time off after playing in England's Ashes Test series and ahead of a busy schedule of cricket for England which includes tours to Bangladesh and South Africa, an ICC World Twenty20 and home series against Bangladesh, Pakistan and Australia in the next 12 months.
Quoted on the ECB's homepage (www.ecb.co.uk), Morris said:
“Given the schedules, we have to prioritise what we are doing. We have to say that global events are obviously a big priority, the Ashes is a big priority, and India and South Africa series.
“We will have to prioritise and we need to get into a position where each player gets the right amount of preparation, the right amount of matches and the right amount of rest.
“In that regard we have to look very closely at the resting of players for series, parts of series, matches, as we have started to do.
“If England are playing cricket and we rest somebody, we would not expect them to play in any other form of cricket,” confirmed Morris, ruling out the possibility of reted players turning out for Indian Premier League teams, for example.
"We will look at each of the players and see where we get to in the next couple of weeks.
“The one thing about the Bangladesh tour is that given there is a World Cup there in 2011, and given that some of the players might not have been there before, we need to be mindful some players might benefit being in that environment.”
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