OK folks... the ECB site doen't have a fixture list up yet... but once the World Cup nonsense is over England will be hosting the West Indies and India (in that order) and will presumably be playing an 'A' / Academy side against each touring side.

Let's just assume for a moment that everyone is fit... and that the selectors will be contemplating picking from the following for their Test side: Tresco, Strauss, Vaughan, Pietersen, Bell, Flintoff, Read, Giles, Hoggard, Jones, Harmison, Panesar

That would leave the likes of Cook, Joyce, Collingwood, Geraint Jones, Anderson available as the core of an 'A' side... but who would take the other spots?


1. Cook
2. ?
3. Yardy/ Shah / Bopara
4. Joyce
5. Collingwood
6. Dalrymple / ?
7. Foster / Jones / Davies
8. Rashid / Batty/ Plunkett / Broad / Tom Smith
9. Mahmood / Onions
10. Lewis
11. Anderson

Unconstrained by W-A-T restrictions... who'd be in?