T/20 World Cup

To hilite the fact that losing players will not affect aust as much as it will the other sides.

There has been very little said about it, I don't think it rates very high on the list of priorities.

The England provisional squad is out - includes a number of T20 specialists and one M Trescothick too....

Squad James Anderson (Lancashire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Ravi Bopara (Essex), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Leicestershire), Glen Chapple (Lancashire), Paul Collingwood (Durham) (captain), Alastair Cook (Essex), Andrew Flintoff (Lancashire), James Kirtley (Sussex), Jon Lewis (Gloucestershire), Mal Loye (Lancashire), Darren Maddy (Warwickshire), Dimitri Mascarenhas (Hampshire), Paul Nixon (Leicestershire), Monty Panesar (Northamptonshire), Mark Pettini (Essex), Kevin Pietersen (Hampshire), Liam Plunkett (Durham), Matt Prior (Sussex), Chris Schofield (Surrey), Owais Shah (Middlesex), Ryan Sidebottom (Nottinghamshire), Jeremy Snape (Leicestershire), Vikram Solanki (Worcestershire), Chris Tremlett (Hampshire), Marcus Trescothick (Somerset), Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire), Luke Wright (Sussex), Michael Yardy (Sussex)

Apart from the fact that Bell is one of the best outfielders in the game at present, not a whole lot. I doubt either of them will make the final squad (or should I say I will be shocked if either if them do).

pffffft, like he'd get into a side that already boasts the spin bowling talents of Michael Yardy and Jamie Dalrymple

Encouraging to see the specialists picked, and Trescothick back in the provisional squad, but seeing the likes of Cook, Sidebottom and even Lewis in there still leaves me to doubt that all the specialists will eventually get picked.

I still think if the likes of Wright, Pettini and co. were going to be given a chance, they should have played against the West Indies.

Interesting that when Dravid, Ganguly and Tendulkar stepped down, they claimed Twenty20 is a young man's game. England's squad selection is largely at odds with that, although as ever, they'll try and find a balance.

 Blimey , just reading the last half dozen posts I realise that I know ziltch about T20 in England!

    Still , I think I'll get by !

I feel sorry for anyone branded a 20/20 specialist, I didn't know there was such a thing.

I don't mind the look of NZ for this cup, playing this sort of format certainly evens the teams up.

Originally posted by -JP- Bangladesh have named their 2020 squad too. 13 uncapped players, as they're going down the youth road too....

  Good grief !!  The average age of their test side is about 20 , this T20 lot must still be in kindergarden!  Hope they don't have to play day/night games - waaaaaaaaaaay past their bedtime!

Originally posted by Sledger Good and bad news for us Cape Townians!!  Good news is that the England/Australia clash is here on September 14th and costs just R40 !!     The bad news is that England play South Africa in the Rugby WC on the same day!!  Play starts at 9pm which is the time the cricket should finish.          The cricket isn't anywhere near as important to me - rugby is a religion here and I just have to see our lads putting SA to the sword.      So I'll catch the cricket on the TV , there's another 8 matches in CT and I'll get along to some of those.  Bloody awful planning by someone - obviously anti-English administrators out there!

 No problem now Chiefy , the cricket start has been brought forward to 2pm to avoid the clash. Good old commonsense saves the day and I'll be at Newlands and my local pub for the rugby - should be quite a day!

 That doesn't bare thinking about mate!

A good cricketer can play all forms of the game. There is nobody in that Aussie line up who can not score quickly in terms of batting. In fact, Lee adds strength to the batting.

Pfft... pathetic. He got a 4-for the other day in a 4 day game... His bowling is rubbish, I don't rate it one iota. His batting is improving though.