Barney Rubble
International Coach
The news that England are going to play a twenty20 ODI v Aus next year to open the Ashes series got me thinking - most of the England ODI squad haven't played much of the very short game, so would they pick a radically different squad from players who have? Aus would probably just choose their regular one-day team with maybe a few alterations. My idea of the possible teams:
England
1. M Trescothick
2. A Flintoff
3. K Pietersen
4. A Brown
5. D Maddy
6. P Collingwood
7. M Vaughan
8. G Jones
9. A Wharf
10. S Harmison
11. J Anderson
Australia
1. A Gilchrist
2. M Hayden
3. R Ponting
4. A Symonds
5. B Hodge
6. M Bevan
7. D Martyn
8. B Hogg
9. J Gillespie
10. B Lee
11. G McGrath
and just for good measure, a World twenty20 XI:
1. A Gilchrist
2. A Flintoff
3. S Tendulkar
4. S Afridi
5. L Klusener
6. S Jayasuriya
7. C Gayle
8. S Pollock
9. B Lee
10. M Muralitharan
11. G McGrath
haven't put much thought into these, so everyone's gonna disagree.
England
1. M Trescothick
2. A Flintoff
3. K Pietersen
4. A Brown
5. D Maddy
6. P Collingwood
7. M Vaughan
8. G Jones
9. A Wharf
10. S Harmison
11. J Anderson
Australia
1. A Gilchrist
2. M Hayden
3. R Ponting
4. A Symonds
5. B Hodge
6. M Bevan
7. D Martyn
8. B Hogg
9. J Gillespie
10. B Lee
11. G McGrath
and just for good measure, a World twenty20 XI:
1. A Gilchrist
2. A Flintoff
3. S Tendulkar
4. S Afridi
5. L Klusener
6. S Jayasuriya
7. C Gayle
8. S Pollock
9. B Lee
10. M Muralitharan
11. G McGrath
haven't put much thought into these, so everyone's gonna disagree.