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Well this has the potential to become absolutely massive. I remember us sending thousands of PMs back and forth every time we found a link between some old-time player and a non-mainstream cricketing nation, and I'm delighted that this will finally all see the light of day

That was an absolutely bonkers final

:afg: :bat: Ibrahim Zadran 1656 runs @ 50.17 (SR: 83.09, 6 centuries, best 177) in 36 ODI matches If Ibrahim Zadran really is only 23 then that was one hell of a paper round. Regardless though, he's a fantastic old-school ODI opener and he's the player Afghanistan can build not only an innings...

Legend has it, Selection: Impossible is still going.

:eng: :ar: Jamie Dalrymple 487 runs @ 19.48 (SR: 72.47, best 67) and 14 wickets @ 47.57 (econ 4.75, best 2/5) in 27 ODI matches. He was fine. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7 :eng: :ar: Jamie Dalrymple 8. 9. 10. 11. @Paranoid Kendroid - holding off on a 2nd pick as requested

Oh I am so in Please can I join last minute?

Same guys, same. So the way I did it was to start with the busiest players first and then work my way down, so each player will have a bracketed number showing which pick they were. Test XI 1. :eng: :bat: Zak Crawley (17) - Test opener by default. 2. :eng: :bat: Alex Lees (51) - The only...

:saf: :wkb: Heinrich Klaasen (54-93 ODI band) 2,141 runs @ 43.69 (SR: 117.05, 4 centuries, best 174) and 58 dismissals (51 ct, 7 st) in 60 ODI matches 4,514 runs @ 42.99 (SR: 108.35, 8 centuries, best 174) and 155 dismissals (136 ct, 19 st) in 131 List A matches Klaasen at his best was one of...

As I understand it, he's a middling recreational player. I always got the impression that England's problem with him was that if he looks funny at the wrong item of food at lunch on Day One, he won't leave the toilet again until late on Day Five.

Shoaib Bashir is out of the series. It raises the interesting question of whether they'll shoehorn Jacob Bethell in, or just smash the button marked "Jack Leach"

When a game is that close, every single person on the losing team could find cause to blame themselves, and every single person on the winning team could find cause to claim credit for making the difference. At all levels of cricket it hurts more to lose one you could so nearly have won than it...

Zak Crawley has 3,129 Test runs @ 30.98 and 4,241 domestic first-class runs @ 32.70. Shaun Pollock has 3,781 Test runs @ 32.31 and 3,242 domestic first-class runs @ 38.14.

Time to make my late pick: :aus: :bwl: Ryan Harris (21-32 ODI band) 44 wickets @ 18.90 (econ: 4.84, 3 5WI, best 5/19) in 21 ODIs 123 wickets @ 27.59 (econ: 4.92, 4 5WI, best 5/19) in 85 List A matches Ryan Harris played almost his entire international career while he was at the absolute peak...

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:aus: :bat: David Warner :aus: :ar: Travis Head :eng: :bat: Jonny Bairstow :os: :eng: :bat: Sam Hain* :local: :saf: :ar: Aiden Markram :os: :aus: :wk: Matthew Wade :aus: :ar: Chris Green :afg: :ar: Rashid Khan :os: :aus: :ar: Pat Cummins :nzf: :bwl: Matt Henry :os: :aus: :bwl: Spencer Johnson

England (1) vs (1) New Zealand, 3rd Test at Edgbaston Desperate times mean that David Gower comes back into the side for the first time all year. He's a symbol of the Old England we were trying to move away from, but push has come to shove and we've gone back to the well. Battered...

England (1) vs (0) New Zealand, 2nd Test at Lord's Just one change then - it's a little bit of deckchair shuffling: Derek Pringle comes back into the side after Phil DeFreitas struggled for impact with the ball in the first Test. Okay, so we won't be hitting the button marked "Pringle"...

England vs New Zealand, 1st Test at Trent Bridge A few changes here from the West Indies Tests: Atherton comes back in as an opener and bit-part spinner, while his county teammate Fairbrother makes a comeback at Test level after smashing a triple-hundred. We start the season with a...