Even among pcws there may have been a few four letter words in the air after England's disappointing defeat to Bangladesh although I still think we might have won had not Jordan's bat left the ground. Twitter got plenty of steam up with the usual 'make them row home' kind of knee jerk responses. There seems little point in 'sack the lot' however unless the tweeter has some replacements in mind and The Cricket Paper invited their followers to suggest who would be in their XI for future ODIs. Twitter does pose one problem for amateur selectors and that is the restriction to 140 characters including spaces, hyphens etc. Too many Ingleby Mackenzies and Hamilton Browns and you are in trouble so why not restrict your selection to people with no more than four letters in their last names. After all many Yorkshire supporters would not look further than Lyth and Lees for their openers so let's continue in the same vein: here's my XI
Lyth, Lees, Lumb, Root, Gale (capt), Ali, Read (wk), Wood (Durham), Coad, Beer, Finn. The bowling is a bit weak but I was reluctant to recall Swan in the light of his desertion from the last Ashes tour. And of course it would leave Yorkshire a bit short but that is something the Headingley faithful may be need to get used to when the party to tour the West Indies is an announced next week. Under Lower Ure Valley rules there is a bit of room for manoeuvre for the selection of Ali frees up a character which could be used to bring Broad into the attack. Not sure how good an idea that is so let's have Pyrah. Finding a replacement for Peter Moores is proving beyond me at the moment, I'll have to look at the stats.
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ps there is cricket at Taunton on Monday week, there's a thought.
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