Third one-day international, Rose Bowl:
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By Ben Dirs
ENGLAND INNINGS
1430: Players are out - Bops and Strauss entering the fray to Men At Work - and we’ll have play in a minute or so. "You have got to love England’s selection policy today: bury your head in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong.
Class." Matt, Kingston, in the TMS inbox “My mum’s from Essex and I hope it wouldn’t survive a nuclear war.”
Peter Hall in the TMS inbox “What does Adil Rashid have to do to get in the side Has he offended the selectors in some way This team selection beggars belief!”
Aneesh, Brussels, in the TMS inbox****1423: Bit of weather around in Southampton, but we’re starting on time, which is good of them. News reaches me that Manchester United ace Patrice Evra wants to do a TV comedy with Park Ji-Sung when he hangs his boots up. Couldn’t be any worse than Two Pints.England: Andrew Strauss (captain), Ravi Bopara, Matthew Prior, Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood, Luke Wright, Eoin Morgan, Graeme Swann, Jimmy Anderson, Ryan Sidebottom, Tim Bresnan. Australia: Shane Watson, Tim Paine, Cameron White, Michael Clarke (captain), Callum Ferguson, Michael Hussey, James Hopes, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Nathan Hauritz, Nathan Bracken
1417: Bit of bounce in the deck in Southampton, apparently, which should encourage the Aussie pacemen no end. “Fabio Capello has vowed not to be another wally with a brolly at Wembley tonight,” says The Sun. Based on the fact he said “the weather will be dry” when asked if he would be carrying a brolly. Extraordinary. 1411: Romford, a remarkable place. I saw a man - a grown man - give a stranger a ‘peanut’ (tie-wise) on the train on the way in. Because he was snoring. I’m convinced that if a meteorite were to hit the planet, and Romford were the only settlement to survive, within 100 years the most technologically-advanced object known to man would be the yellow polystyrene kebab box. 1405: Afternoon. The third one-dayer today, England really need to win this one. Can someone please explain something to me How did the selectors’ meeting go “Nah, Jonathan Trott’s no good at medium length cricket - short cricket, long cricket, but medium cricket, no good, Eoin Morgan’s obviously better.” “Remarkable team news” says Nasser Hussain on learning England are unchanged from the other day - Adil Rashid not picked, same mediocre outfit as England picked the other day. Andrew Strauss has won the toss and England are going to have a bat. Australia unchanged, and why would theyThis article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.