Despite being champions of the main 1-day competition in the past 2 years, Essex have ZERO players in the England team. Could someone please explain this? A vital ingredient in one-day cricket is knowing one's role in a team, so I suggest the following for the World Cup: Pettini Irani Pietersen Flower (qualified I believe?) Bopara Flintoff Foster Middlebrook Gough Lewis Panesar Obviously with overseas players you have to make a couple of changes but surely we can't argue at least the following changes would improve the team: Irani for Strauss Flower for Bell Bopara for Joyce Foster for Nixon Middlebrook for Dalrymple Gough for Tremlett. The 2 who I feel really bad for are Foster (God only knows how he upset Fletcher) and Gough, who bowled well during the Summer and was let down by some shocking catching / communication from Read and Trescothick in the slip cordon. Essex for the World Cup!
