If England can make this one change,.... they will have a near perfect bowling attack --

Mathew Hoggard & Steve Harmisson
Andrew Flintoff & James Anderson
Monty Panesar

I have a feeling, that the Ashes 4 --- Hoggard, Harmisson, Flintoff and Jones are still the best combination for England.

Unfortunately, Simon Jones and Mathew Hoggard have lost favor with the selectors

In reply to thefacts

KP said in his first interview when getting de wok dat Board is his man.....so he ain't going nowhere fast.

No doubt, England has the best bench (squad) of pacers in world cricket today

Bounce & Pace -- Harmisson, Flintoff, Tremelett, Plunkett
Swing & Seam-- Sidebottom, Anderson, Hoggard, Simon Jones
New Blokes---- Darren Pattison, Stuart Broad, Sajid Mahmood, Tim Bresnan,

Amazing... it's hard time for the selectors for sure.

In reply to thefacts

With all that "bench strength", prasad's dream of "fully fit" Pommie team is never realized.

In reply to Raggs

Yeah, probably... it's sad, I think Hoggard is getting a very raw deal here. He has been a match winner for England for so long, couple of bad tests and they drop him for life.

They did the right thing by dropping him, but now that he has shown form in domestic cricket, he should return...

In reply to Surya



You have rightly pointed out, they have serious fitness and form issues.

But I think the selectors have got it woefully wrong this summer.... by leaving out Harmisson & Hoggard from the scene of the battle.

In reply to thefacts

word around town is his fire power is gone.....his pace drop by far.......and let's face it, de man was not that quick in de first place .

In reply to Raggs

he is a swing bowler man.... never was a quickie...

Well, don't know, whether he will play again or not, but he is certainly in my book, a great player..

Tests......Wickets......Best-I......Best-M......5WI....10WM......Avg....StrikeRate...WicketsPerMatch
67...........248..........7/61......12-205.........7........1.........30.50......56.0............4.00

Seems to be doing well in the FC season, nothing spectacular, but decent form

FC......Wickets......Best-I......Best-M......5WI....10WM......Avg....StrikeRate...WicketsPerMatch
9*.......30.............6-57.......8-97...........1.........0..........23.90......50.3...............3.33

Amazing competitor...

In reply to thefacts

If KP feels it then KP will save or deliver it....simple....stats ain't gat nothing to do with it.

In reply to thefacts

Sajid Mahmood won't even make the windies side. Pattinson didn't impress me at all. For a big chest man, he should be banging that ball in like Morkel.

a better replacement for Broad - 20 wickets from 15 matches.

In reply to doosra

Yeah he should replace Monty.....

In reply to doosra

Doosie, that man is 38 years +..

Ramps should be the one to replace Vaughan.. It was a dead rubber game..

In reply to Larr Pullo

yea, he's not too bad compared to Monty...definitely.