This team includes some giants of the game; the top six of the batting order would surely accumulate runs by the bucketful.
We select the A-Team. Will Kabir Ali make the final XI?
One day last week during a rain break at the ‘Gabba, someone asked which initial letter produces the best cricketers?
With the 2011/12 cycle of fixtures well under way, we take a look at the progress or otherwise of each team thus far.
Firstly in our not-quite-weekly round up of England’s not-quite-stars playing around the world, to South Africa, where Owais Shah helped Cape Cobras to victory over Dolphins in the one-day tournament.
Owais Shah appears to be finding some form for the Cape Cobras in the South African Franchise 1-Day Cup
We don’t like cricket. We love it. Sorry. We’ll never resort to this again. But such has been the thrill and brilliance of Test matches recently, that it needs to be said.
Attention turns to Matt Prior in our ongoing discussion about who should keep wicket in ODIs for England.
Step aside Mr Kieswetter, for Steve Davies is – at least in this correspondent’s opinion – a better keeper and just as good with the bat.
Even before the first match, we were annoyed that the ‘series’ (can only two of something form a series?) was so short; after the fun and farce of that game in Cape Town, it seems downright disheartening.