Moores Announces 'England Performance Squad'
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Topic: Moores Announces 'England Performance Squad'
Posted By: Clobber
Subject: Moores Announces 'England Performance Squad'
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 4:43pm
This gives the first insight to who will be in the new coach's plans for the season, comprising 12 centrally contracted players plus 13 others. Of greatest interest are probably the inclusion of Marcus Trescothick and Simon Jones, and that the wicket keeping position appears to be a straight fight between Paul Nixon and Matt Prior.
England Performance Squad Michael Vaughan*, James Anderson, Ian
Bell*, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood*, Alastair Cook*,
Jamie Dalrymple, Andrew Flintoff*, Steve Harmison*, Matthew Hoggard*,
Simon Jones*, Ed Joyce, Jon Lewis, Sajid Mahmood, Paul Nixon, Graham
Onions, Monty Panesar*, Kevin Pietersen*, Liam Plunkett, Matt Prior,
Owais Shah, Andrew Strauss*, Marcus Trescothick*, Michael Yardy (* =
central contract)
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Posted By: robbie
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 5:06pm
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i think it is a very good squad ad some quite young players in is this ODI and test Performance squad
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Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 5:09pm
No Read, space for Giles to come in later, places for those who performed poorly in the Caribbean.
Rewarding mediocrity comes to mind.
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Posted By: alexwccc
Date Posted: 26 April 2007 at 9:18pm
quite a good squad. nice to see trescothick and jones back and a few younger players to bring in for experience.
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wccc forever
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Posted By: dips_december
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 4:58am
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Good squad. Whats Graham Onions all about? Its nice to see Tres back and so too Cook.
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Posted By: 143no
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 6:57am
Yep great squad, good to see they stuck with all those that got hammered 5 nil in aust.
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Monkey see, Monkey do.
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Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 9:12am
Originally posted by dips_december
Good squad. Whats Graham Onions all about?
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A decent, hostile fast bowler
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Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 9:13am
Originally posted by 143no
Yep great squad, good to see they stuck with all those that got hammered 5 nil in aust. |
who would you suggest the should have picked instead?
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Posted By: 143no
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 9:31am
I don't know the domestic scene well enough, but even if these guy's are the best, they need to be shaken up a little. how many chances to some of these guy's deserve?
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Monkey see, Monkey do.
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Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 27 April 2007 at 9:50am
If you take a look at what was essentially the Ashes side - Strauss, Cook, Bell, Collingwood, Pietersen, Flintoff, Read/Jones, Hoggard, Harmison, Panesar, Mahmood/Anderson - we can see obviously the wicketkeepers haven't been given another chance (very harsh in Read's case).
Of the others who did little in that series;
Mahmood & Anderson wouldn't have played had Jones been fit and both have potential if only the England management will let them bowl enough overs. Hopefully Moores has a little more faith in the county circuit than his predecessor.
Harmison is one discussed at length on the forum and is certainly pushing his luck. But it is only a couple of years since he was knocking over all-comers and rated No 1 in the world (for what that is worth...not much) and any new coach would want the challenge of getting the best out of him.
On the batting side Strauss did little but had no luck at all on the tour and has more than enough credit in the bank to be worth a continued spot. For Cook it was a learning experience and he clearly has a big future. Bell and Collingwood were a bit up and down but again did enough to show they shouldn't be discarded. (Of course 2 of those 4 wouldn't have played anyway had England had a full strength squad to choose from).
England's results over recent years have been strong enough to ensure that one poor series - against a very strong side - doesn't mean that they have to immediately throw the baby out with the bath water.
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Posted By: dips_december
Date Posted: 28 April 2007 at 3:52am
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Thanks for the info Clobs.
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