Despite picking an entire Airbus A380 of players for the two tours of Australia, there were enough omitted players to make a fairly reasonable XI.
The end of Banger’s story was desperately sad. But what did we really miss out on?
After the success of making up stuff about Simon Jones, our brand new series reaches that difficult second album, where we address the awkward question of Graeme Hick and that declaration.
Simon Jones’s retirement has left the 51allout crew in a state of shock. To get over it they drank gin and wondered about what might have been.
With Matthew Hoggard announcing his retirement yesterday, anyone who bet on Simon Jones to be the last bowler standing from the 2005 Ashes must be due a pretty hefty windfall any time soon.
One of the great Test careers, although you may well have missed it if you nipped to the toilet.
Predicting things: a mug’s game.
Tim Ambrose: not the best looking member of his family.