1st test v SA squad announcement

At 12.30pm I think?

All the word is of it being unchanged because everything is hunky-dory.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/07/03/scprin103.xml

Pringle, what are you on about?

Two other bowlers able to crank up the pace and discomfort levels are Steve Harmison and Simon Jones. National selector Geoff Miller was at Headingley to see Harmison bowl on Tuesday, while Kevin Shine, the fast-bowling director of the National Performance Centre, was at Leicester watching Jones.

Both are bowling quick and taking wickets, but to oust the trio of Anderson, Ryan Sidebottom and Stuart Broad, who have helped England to four wins in five Tests, they need to be doing something special.

Simon Jones will be distressed to learn that 26 wickets @ 12.53 isn't special enough for Derek Pringle

Derek Pringle is jealous because he was always a fat-bloke-waiting-to-get-out and he was a gashlord. It's of no consequence, JKL>

Along with the Champions Trophy squad!

Aye, he is rather large these days...

holcs wrote:Along with the Champions Trophy squad!

Can't wait!

JKLever wrote:

holcs wrote:Along with the Champions Trophy squad!

Can't wait!

Be interesting to see who the other 15 are actually.

You'll get your usual Hildreths and Gidmans I expect. But thats the interesting bit.

holcs wrote:

JKLever wrote:

holcs wrote:Along with the Champions Trophy squad!

Can't wait!

Be interesting to see who the other 15 are actually.

You'll get your usual Hildreths and Gidmans I expect. But thats the interesting bit.

Won't it just be the same old shoite? or are we sending a shadow squad (yeah like the first team aren't already!)

Aye, they'll send a proper team. A team which would probably beat the current 'Full' squad.

Gary Champion Trophy Squad:

Collingwood*, Pietersen, Shah, Strauss, Bopara, McGrath, Prior, Denly, Patel, Wright, Cook, Ambrose, Read, Foster, Flintoff, Bresnan, Swann, Rashid, Blackwell, Napier, Sidebottom, Broad, Anderson, Panesar, Tremlett, Mascarenhas, Jones, Lewis, Lungley, Tremlett

Lungley FFS.

Lewis FFS

Napier FFS

Blackwell FFS!

Gary 111 wrote:Gary Champion Trophy Squad:

Collingwood*, Pietersen, Shah, Strauss, Bopara, McGrath, Prior, Denly, Patel, Wright, Cook, Ambrose, Read, Foster, Flintoff, Bresnan, Swann, Rashid, Blackwell, Napier, Sidebottom, Broad, Anderson, Panesar, Tremlett, Mascarenhas, Jones, Lewis, Lungley, Tremlett

Fark off Gazza! How you've overlooked Sales in the squad is beyond me!

Gazza, I didn't realise you were a Graveney-sized joke until now!

I take it that they're announcing 30 names then?

bet you anything you like that Cooks name is in there...

Your credibility went as soon as I thought I saw that Samit Patel wasn't in there but was then informed that I'm stupid. It definitely went when you picked four wicket-keepers. What's the point of more than a tenth of the squad being made up of keepers? England will take two; Prior and Ambrose. You'd think that Strauss, Cook, Bell, Pietersen, Bopara, Shah and Wright will make up the main batsman. Sidebottom, Anderson, Broad, Tremlett, Mascarenhas, Swann and Panesar seem like definites. Fourteen further, total random players, probably including Vikram Solanki will then be required. Half of them will be from Sussex, the other half will have had sexual relations either with Michael Vaughan or Peter Moores, or possibly both at the same time.

I'd like to see Samit, Hildreth & Sales all in there tbh.

WTF have we got to lose?