da apostebet： England today named a 13-man squad for next week’s 1st npower Test Match vSri Lanka at Lord’s from May 16th-20th
da esport bet： ECB Media Release11-May-2002Official Team Sponsor – VodafoneEngland today named a 13-man squad for next week’s 1st npower Test Match vSri Lanka at Lord’s from May 16th-20th.With Darren Gough and James Foster missing out through injury, Alec Stewartwill keep wicket and there are also recalls for John Crawley, Dominic Corkand Alex Tudor.The full squad is:
Nasser Hussain * (Essex) 28.3.68Mark Butcher (Surrey) 23.8.72Andrew Caddick (Somerset) 21.11.68Dominic Cork (Derbyshire) 7.8.71John Crawley (Hampshire) 21.9.71Andrew Flintoff (Lancashire) 6.12.77Ashley Giles (Warwickshire) 19.3.73Matthew Hoggard (Yorkshire) 31.12.76Alec Stewart (Surrey) 8.4.63Graham Thorpe (Surrey) 1.8.69Marcus Trescothick (Somerset) 25.12.75Alex Tudor (Surrey) 23.10.77Michael Vaughan (Yorkshire) 29.10.74
Commenting on the Test squad announcement, David Graveney, said: “Withregard to the wicket-keeping position, James Foster was the contractedwicket-keeper and would have been selected for the 1st Test but for hisinjury.”Now that Alec is available again, we see him as the leading candidate forthe wicket-keeping job in James’ absence. He is in good form this season, heunderstands the position with James and is determined to prove to theselectors that he has an international future.”We had a lengthy discussion about the choice of extra batsman and lookedat Ian Bell, David Fulton and Robert Key as well as John Crawley. Withregard to Ian, he has matured a lot as a cricketer over the winter, but wefeel that he hasn’t always played on the best possible wickets so far thissummer and therefore has been unable to spend a lot of time in the middle.”John Crawley has been in outstanding form this season, is benefiting frombeing freed from the captaincy role and has also scored a Test hundredagainst Sri Lanka before.”We feel that Dominic Cork’s bowling suits the particular requirements ofLord’s – especially if the wicket performs in the same way it has for thelast two years. Dominic has been in good form for Derbyshire, is very fitand his action is now back to where it was three years ago. He deserves hisplace back in the squad.”Alex Tudor has been troubled by injury in the past but he was a majorbenefactor of the National Academy’s winter in Australia and has also beenin good form this summer. He has been in and out of the Test side before,but we hope that he can now be a consistent performer for England.Tickets are still available for the 1st npower Test via www.lords.org orthrough the ECB Ticket Hotline on 08705338833
