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[Buzz]

Anderson or Hoggard
Broad or Harmison
Woakes or Jones
Stokes or Flintoff
Ali or Giles.
Bairstow or Jones

Kind of shows you where the issues are with our current team...
Clue:

Strauss vs Cook
Trescothic vs Duckett, Hales, Trott, or anyone...
Vaughan vs Root (big call this one...!)
Bell vs Ballance
KP vs (well moeen can't be picked twice)

[rickjames]

God I miss Tres.

That is all.

[smilley792]

Strauss
Tres
Vaughan
Root
Kp
Stokes
Flintoff
Bairstow
Jones
Harmison
Anderson

Plenty of runs there,

And

If we are at home do we need a spinner? Root and kp can share anyway.

[ElPerro]

Cook
Tresco
Trott
Root
KP
Bairstow
Flintoff
Giles
Broad
Jones
Anderson

[FattusCattus]

Trescothick
Cook
Strauss *
KP
Root
Bairstow+
Stokes
Moeen
Broad
Jones
Anderson

[Buzz]

God I miss Tres.

That is all.

Literally the first pick ahead of everyone else.

For what it is worth I go for

Tresco
Strauss
Root
KP
Vaughan
Stokes
Bairstow
Moeen
Flintoff
Broad
Anderson

[Alvaro]

Trescothick
Cook
Root
KP
Bairstow
Stokes
Moeen
Woakes
Flintoff
Jones
Broad

[Tailendfielder]

Kinda cheating but since 2005:

Cook
Tres
Vaughan
Pietersen
Root
Prior
Flintoff
Swann
Broad
Jones
Anderson

But your point, current top 5 are missing at least two reliable players for cook and root to play around. Wheres collingwood when you need him?

[Woodyspin]

hmmmm

Trescothick
Cook
Root
KP
Bairstow
Stokes
Moeen
Swann
Broad
Jones
Anderson

2 spinners... why not

[Johnny]

Oooh. Good thread!

I'd pick Jimmy over Hoggy.

I think Broadvwoukd shade it over Harmy, but only because I don't know what version of Harmy I'm picking.

As a specialist spinner, Gilo over Mo every time.

Fred as my third seamer

YJB gets the gloves

Stokes as the batting all-rounder

Bell & KP at 5 and 4

Root 3

Tres and cooky at the top of the order

[SOULMAN1012]

This would be my dream line up

Tres
Cook
Vaughan
Root
KP
Stokes
Bairstow
Flintoff
Giles
Anderson
Jones

[Big Mac]

(Captain) Cook
Banger
Root
Iron Bell
KP
YJB (wk)
Moeen
Stokes
Woakes
Flintoff
Hoggard

Rest of the squad:

Trott
The King of Spain
Jones


Was torn between Bell and Trott (who would bat 3, Root moves down to 4). Got a team that bats deep in keeping with the fashion of today and Broad/Swann/Anderson/Prior are nowhere to be seen because I want to make sure the dressing room isn't a hostile working environment for the likes of Kevin Pietersen. Hoggard and Woakes take the new ball, Stokes and Flintoff when the ball is reversing. Giles can replace one of Stokes/Woakes when the team travels to Asia so the team has spinners who move the ball away from both right and left handed batsmen.

Got pretty much all the bases covered.

[Calzehbhoy]

Tres
Cook
Vaughan
Root
KP
Stokes
Prior (This time next year imagine it would be YJB instead)
Flintoff
Swann
Broad
Anderson

[Stuey]

In his pomp Jones would have been a handful in these conditions.

[northernboy1987]

Can't believe there's some folk not picking England's highest run scorer and wicket takers! You don't get there by accident.