England's pace attack for First Test

Poker Boy · 23-04-2007, 08:13 AM

After a winter of awful seam bowling, and with some bowlers making a comeback who should be in the England pace attack for the First Test?

NUFAN · 23-04-2007, 08:14 AM

Flintoff Hoggard Harmison Collingwood.

ramkumar_gr · 23-04-2007, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Poker Boy

After a winter of awful seam bowling, and with some bowlers making a comeback who should be in the England pace attack for the First Test?

Hoggard, Simon Jones(if fit)/Stuart Broad,James Anderson,Flintoff

tooextracool · 23-04-2007, 08:23 AM

Jones isnt going to be ready for the first test, no matter how well he bowled in his first outing in over a year.
Hoggard, Harmison and Flintoff for me.

gettingbetter · 23-04-2007, 08:39 AM

Should be: Hoggard, Flintoff, Anderson, Mahmood

Will be: Hoggard, Flintoff, Harmison, Anderson

Scaly piscine · 23-04-2007, 08:50 AM

At this point I'm optimistically assuming there are no more injuries. I think it would be pretty pointless to not select Simon Jones when there's like 3-4 weeks til the first Test.

So it would be Flintoff, Harmison, Hoggard and Simon Jones.

simmy · 23-04-2007, 08:51 AM

Should be Flintoff, Jones, Hoggard, Anderson/Broad.

Harmison is an embarassment who does not deserve to walk back in.

Pratters · 23-04-2007, 08:59 AM

Don't think we need a separate thread for this.

Prince EWS · 23-04-2007, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Pratyush

Don't think we need a separate thread for this.

Normally I'd agree, but considering he wanted to poll it, it's not like he could have just posted it in the tour thread.

Pratters · 23-04-2007, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Prince EWS

Normally I'd agree, but considering he wanted to poll it, it's not like he could have just posted it in the tour thread.

Yeah I was thinking the same after I posted. It is fair enough.

Scaly piscine · 23-04-2007, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by simmy

Should be Flintoff, Jones, Hoggard, Anderson/Broad.

Harmison is an embarassment who does not deserve to walk back in.

Harmison who contributes as much as Hoggard, but gets a ridiculous amount of stick. Suggesting Anderson in particular to play ahead of him is somewhat moronic.

Prince EWS · 23-04-2007, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Scaly piscine

Harmison who contributes as much as Hoggard, but gets a ridiculous amount of stick. Suggesting Anderson in particular to play ahead of him is somewhat moronic.

Spot the Durhamer.

Scaly piscine · 23-04-2007, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Prince EWS

Spot the Durhamer.

Look at their Test records, despite Harmison being used as a workhorse and Hoggard just bowling when the new ball or conditions suit him.

Prince EWS · 23-04-2007, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Scaly piscine

Look at their Test records, despite Harmison being used as a workhorse and Hoggard just bowling when the new ball or conditions suit him.

No doubt that Harmison is a very good bowler when he's on song, but that only happens spazmodically. He has been completely dire for a while now, although he did have a good first Championship match. If he can keep up that sort of form in county cricket, I'd have no problem with him being picked for the first test, but at this stage I wouldn't have him there ahead of Jones, Hoggard or Panesar. Suggesting that Broad should be selected in front of him is indeed a bit much, but it's far from moronic to suggest that Anderson should be selected in front of him. A lot IMO will depend on early season to county form - lots of bowlers are in with some chance of getting that last place (or places, depending on the balance that ends up being opted for).

GIMH · 23-04-2007, 09:22 AM

Your enthusiasm for all Cricket is refreshing Prince. You must be up there with SS, Perm & Richard as one of the keenest watchers of all Cricket, regardless of the team.

View Poll Results: Who should be in England's pace attack for First Test?
Flintoff	51	96.23%
Harmison	38	71.70%
Hoggard	50	94.34%
S Jones	29	54.72%
Anderson	17	32.08%
Mahmood	2	3.77%
Plunkett	2	3.77%
Lewis	6	11.32%
Others	7	13.21%
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