England Test squad for India

[CREDYGRECIAN]

Strauss
Cook
Bell
KP
Collingwood
Freddie
Prior
Broad
Harmy
Anderson
Monty

 

[Poundstretcher]

no stuey broad??

I've always been of the idea that bowlers should not average 43 in Test cricket if they want to keep getting picked.

There are quite a few different ways these things could go. Strauss/Cook is guaranteed up top, and I don't see any of Pietersen/Collingwood/Bell being binned (unfortunately in Bell's case: still yet to play a gamebreaking innings). That leaves us asking what we do with balance and keepers.

Options:

6 Shah			Prior		Flintoff
7 Prior			Flintoff	Ambrose
8 Flintoff		Swann		Sidebottom
9 Sidebottom/Anderson	Sbtm/Andsn	Anderson
10 Harmison		Harmison	Harmison
11 Panesar		Panesar		Panesar

I would go for the left hand option because I love batting depth, with Shah at 3 and Bell 6 (I'd also have Patel instead of Bell but that's another argument).

 

[josh4ecfc64]

Another poor series from Strauss and he'l be shwon the door methinks.