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Subject:Re: First Test Squad
Date:Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:46:22 +0100
From:Geoff Leonard <geoff@imdb.com>
Newsgroups:uk.sport.cricket
In article <bf8se5$tbc$1@newsfeed.th.ifl.net>, David Lewis
<lewis@rmplc.co.uk> writes
>
>Matt Wheeler <spam@007jbond.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:3f17de86$0$18488$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com...
>>
>> Squad is:
>> N Hussain (capt), ME Trescothick, MP Vaughan, MA Butcher, A McGrath,
>> AJ Stewart (wkt), A Flintoff, AF Giles, D Gough, RJ Kirtley, JM
>> Anderson, SJ Harmison.
>>
>> Seems OK to me. Key loses out to McGrath (or does he technically lose
>> out to Flintoff, as he's the "newcomer" to this seasons test team).
>> Kirtley and Gough both selected.... I suspect it'll be one of those
>> two who doesn't make the final 11 either.... I can't see them dropping
>> Anderson or Harmison somehow.
>>
>> Shame they didn't pick Thorpe, though. is 4 specialist batsmen, 1
>> Wicket, 2 all rounders and 4 bowlers the right balance ? I would have
>> preferred 5 batsmen, 1 wicket, 1 all rounder and 4 bowlers.

Two all rounders?  I only see one, Flintoff.

-- 
Geoff Leonard