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[Alvaro]

Darren Stevens is getting on a bit...

[cricketbadger]

If you are looking for a batting all rounder then how about Darren Stevens or Pete Trego??  They have been successful at county level for some time...

Trego seems to have gone un-noticed, quite suprised espcially in the shorter forms of the game
I like him as a player and I think he could maybe do a decent job for England as a batting allrounder

[Manormanic]

The new Ronnie Irani? 

[Buzz]

I think I am a little obsessed by wanting a really good slip fielder in my team - having a waugh, botham, taylor at slip makes a huge difference to the way the team bowls, knowing the edges are going to get snaffled.

Swann is a decent, but not spectacular slip - I hold little faith in Trott and not a great deal in Cook at 1st - but he will almost certainly have a go.

[Manormanic]

Its always an advantage to have someone like that - and England have been relatively lucky in recent years to have the likes of Strauss, Collingwood, Flintoff and Swann who were/are all decent.  But even Phil Sharpe wouldn't be woth a place in the side as a specialist fielder - I mean, we barely even accept the need for a specialist with the gauntlets nowadays!