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petehosk

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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #15 on: September 05, 2018, 12:52:54 PM »

Strauss
Cook
Vaughan/Bell (prefer Bell but would have both in squad)
Roooot
KP
Stokes
Prior
Flintoff
Swann
Broad/Jones (If Jones could stay fit!!)
Anderson
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #16 on: September 05, 2018, 01:03:58 PM »

Strauss
Cook
Vaughan/Bell (prefer Bell but would have both in squad)
Roooot
KP
Stokes
Prior
Flintoff
Swann
Broad/Jones (If Jones could stay fit!!)
Anderson

Yes Pete really like this side...... only thing i might change is YJB in for Prior because Prior is a knob.
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #17 on: September 05, 2018, 01:23:09 PM »

Did Jones and Cook ever play together?
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #18 on: September 05, 2018, 01:34:37 PM »

Did Jones and Cook ever play together?

No, Jones played his last Test in 2005.
He'd have been in my side had they ever played together
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #19 on: September 05, 2018, 08:15:53 PM »

Yes Pete really like this side...... only thing i might change is YJB in for Prior because Prior is a knob.

I know but he has a very decent average and is a better keeper. That's the only reason!
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #20 on: September 05, 2018, 08:16:45 PM »

No, Jones played his last Test in 2005.
He'd have been in my side had they ever played together

Will just have to stick with Broad then. Shame really as I rated Jones very highly!!
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2018, 08:49:45 PM »

I can't believe Moeen Ali hasn't been mentioned yet.
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #22 on: September 05, 2018, 09:12:43 PM »

I think Strauss was a jolly good player, and a tough nut to boot.

I would’ve liked Strauss, Trescothick, Cook, Vaughan, KP to start me off.
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2018, 09:24:27 PM »

I know but he has a very decent average and is a better keeper. That's the only reason!

I don't think he was a better keeper than Jonny is now, and Jonny's average with the bat whilst keeping is much higher (and in more challenging circumstances, given Prior often came in at 300-5)
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2018, 09:25:16 PM »

I can't believe Moeen Ali hasn't been mentioned yet.

Where would you fit him in?  Not knocking the bloke, but I'm struggling to see a role he could fill in a side of that strength.
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2018, 10:12:58 PM »

Blimey there's supporting your County and then there's just stuff no on else will fathom at all.

Challenge excepted

Lyth
Cook(because it’s his team)
Vaughan
Root
Bairstow
ballance
Bresnan
Rashid
Plunkett
Sidebottom
Hoggard

I can't believe Moeen Ali hasn't been mentioned yet.



Cook
Trescothick
Trott
Pietersen
Bell
Moeen
Woakes
Ambrose
Giles
Rankin
Anderson


Got swing and bounce covered, has two spinners so the team can play in England or in Asia. Giles can keep it tight, Moeen can attack with the ball turning either way so doesn't matter if the opposition is full of right or left handers. Everyone all the way down to 9 can hold a bat and there is a perfect blend of style, aggression and solidity in that batting lineup.

As the final added bonus, which makes this England XI the bestest out of every team mentioned so far, Anderson has been separated from his clique of Broad, Swann and Prior. Without the spectre of juvenile and disgraceful dressing room bullying hanging over him, Pietersen will use that freedom to score eleventy gazillion runs as he fulfils his potential as the second coming of Viv Richards.

There you go, scientific proof that England should have more Warwickshire players.
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Re: Best XI from Cook's teammates
« Reply #26 on: September 06, 2018, 05:42:27 AM »

Cook
Trescothick
Trott (can't believe he's been left out of a lot of teams)
KP
Bell
Stokes
Buttler
Flintoff
Swann
Sidebottom
Anderson
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