Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Well let's look at the players who have played with success this summer.
All these players have played with success - "yes" indicates good domestic performance, "no" indicates domestic performance that would suggest that this international success is unlikely.
Tests:
Trescothick - no
Strauss - yes
Hussain - yes
Vaughan - yes
Thorpe - yes
Geirant Jones - yes
Flintoff - yes
Key - yes
Harmison - no
Giles - yes
For the previous series you could add Butcher - yes (and I'm confident that if he plays at Old Trafford and The Oval he'll make his summer into a success too).
ODIs:
Strauss - no
Flintoff - yes, just about with batting and beyond question with bowling
Gough - yes
Harmison - no
Apart from showing the appalling state of England's ODI team, this also suggests that the best guide to probability of international success is domestic cricket.
And it should be added that most of the failures could have been avoided if they'd not been picked because of poor domesic records.
All these players have played with success - "yes" indicates good domestic performance, "no" indicates domestic performance that would suggest that this international success is unlikely.
Tests:
Trescothick - no
Strauss - yes
Hussain - yes
Vaughan - yes
Thorpe - yes
Geirant Jones - yes
Flintoff - yes
Key - yes
Harmison - no
Giles - yes
For the previous series you could add Butcher - yes (and I'm confident that if he plays at Old Trafford and The Oval he'll make his summer into a success too).
ODIs:
Strauss - no
Flintoff - yes, just about with batting and beyond question with bowling
Gough - yes
Harmison - no
Apart from showing the appalling state of England's ODI team, this also suggests that the best guide to probability of international success is domestic cricket.
And it should be added that most of the failures could have been avoided if they'd not been picked because of poor domesic records.
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