Thread: England’s top-order woes show no sign of abating
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Old 02-04-2007, 12:23 AM in reply to pie_chucker's post starting "Top post as usual feverpitch. What..."
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The ODI side is just for players auditioning for the Test side. I would rather see Solanki opening the batting than Joyce. I was a big fan of Joyce in county cricket but in ODIs his batting is a diluted version. He only opened the batting recently in the A team tour of the West Indies and is not a natural opener. His fielding is not very good either. After the World Cup I think Joyce, Vaughan, Strauss and Bell should be dropped from ODIs. No players should be considered that don't have a strike rate of 80. It would be nice if we had Trescothick and Knight opening.

I wouldn't be surprised if those four aren't picked for the 20/20 World Cup.
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