With England picking their provisional 30-man squad for the summer’s Twenty20 World Cup, and no place for Test and one-day captain Andrew Strauss, it is the perfect opportunity for our panel to stick their oars in. Here, they choose their captain and final 15s.
As a reminder, here’s who they had to pick from:
England preliminary WorldTwenty20 […]

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When Richie Benaud made his oft-quoted point about captaincy (90% luck, 10% skill, you know the one) he may not have been thinking of the kind of situation that has arisen in England this week. To recap: a man who recently hit 79 not out off 61 balls in a one-day game reduced to 20 […]

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The omission that caught everyone’s eye was Andrew Strauss. The omission that went unnoticed – because technically it is not an omission at all, more a sad, aching absence – is Marcus Trescothick, Strauss’s opening partner in the 2005 Ashes and now ‘just’ a damn good county cricketer for Somerset.
We need reminding about Trescothick. I […]

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England have so many ponderables on their plate that the role of Andrew Strauss in this summer’s World Twenty20 may be well down the menu. But in a winter where a new era for English cricket seems to have begun every other week, Sunday’s win in Barbados may have continued the trend. Strauss, apparently resigned […]

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