Harmison

[greg]

Steve Harmison has announced his retirement from one day internationals.

No loss really and they cynical side of me thinks he has jumped before he was pushed.Hopefully he can regain his test form next summer.

I guess this gives us the chance to look at Broad.

[Zainub]

His announcment comes after he was dropped from England's 16-man squad to take on Australia and New Zealand in the triangulars coming up after the Ashes, so not sure you can say he jumped before he was pushed.

[greg]

Didn't realise we had already announced the squad,just heard on radio he had retired so jumped to the wrong conclusion.

No Broad.

[Wanderer]

I reckon that "Exodus" Langer talked about a week or so ago is now in full swing...

[Mr Hutt]

Flurry of retirements this week... Warne Mcgrath Harmison who will go next? Vaughn?

[darksideofthemoon]

I think Tremlett should take his place as he has more experience than Plunkett and Mahmood. Broad will be very disappointed.

[England_Fan_Lee]

Lets hope Anderson, Mahmood and panesar can do the job, but bit dissapointed he retired because he can bat a bit as well not just bowl, but still bit annoying.

[Irish Left Armer]

Just another example of England putting tests above one dayers. I suspect Harmison told them he was going to retire and so they left him out, just the announcement were made in opposite order.

England's one day attack looks embarrassingly bad.

[Rachael]

Originally Posted by Irish Left Armer

England's one day attack looks embarrassingly bad.

Not really. Flintoff is an excellent ODI bowler (being top notch in ODIs long before he cracked Test match bowling). Anderson is perhaps not fullfilling all the early promise but he's Gough's natural successor and has a strong record of holding his nerve and bowling intelligently when bowling at the death. Tremlett has the high action and steepling bounce of Caddick, whose ten-overs off the cuff with the new ball were generally everything you could ever want from a new-ball bowler in ODIs. Lewis has shown inventiveness, resourcefulness and guile and (rather like Hoggard in Test cricket) looks capable of outbowling all his more celebrated colleagues.

Add Panesar for wicket-taking slow bowling, Dalrymple as a ODI specialist all-rounder with a great temperament and Blackwell as a specialist bowler for slow and low pitches (where his performances have been noteworthy) and they ODI cupboard looks pretty decent even before you consider the "occasional bowling" of Collingwood (an attractive option in the middle overs of a ODI) and Pietersen (who has potential).

[Ernest]

I wish more Test cricketers would take the same line as Harmison, he can now concetrateon Test cricket.

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