I disagree, and I think Harmison should play as we don't have any better options, and he is by far our best bowler at the moment. That must make him one of the first names on the sheet.
I believe Vaughan should play as he IS a quality batsman and he will come good at some point. Also he is doing a decent job at captaining the side.
Rachael makes a good point about us not having a quality spinner in the ODI team and I tend to agree, BUT I feel that spinners get targeted in ODI's (exception of Warne & Murali), and therefore if we don't have a real quality spinner, why play one? Blackwell and Vaughan can bowl a few overs of spin if required.
Does anyone else feel that Strauss is starting to fit very nicely into the team? I agree it would be great to have Thorpe back, but that doesn't seem likely. Strauss seems to be doing very well working the ball around at a strike rate of around 70-80, could be the answer to a few problems if we dropped him down to 4 and Flintoff promoted to 3. I beleive the no.3 batsman should be able to take advantage of the fielding restrictions in the first 15. Flintoff is not a no.4.

Rikki Clarke looked out of place when given the chance to build an innings yesterday. He seemed to favour the on-side considerably and from past innings he seems to like the sweep shot a lot. The jury is still out. Did ok with the ball though, and has a decent slower ball. I think we should persevere through the summer with him.