England Lions

[first change]

I see England Lions' matches in the Duleep Trophy will be shown live and in full on Sky Sports. Fantastic news, and fair play to Sky. A great chance to see how the likes of Denly, Carberry, Hildreth et al do against quality opposition in unfamiliar conditions.

[darksideofthemoon]

Cricinfo - Mumbai Cricket Association XI v England Lions at Mumbai (BS), Jan 29-31, 2008

[dezz]

Carberry is having an excellent tour. scored half the runs in the last game with a 60 odd. He's got to get a proper england call up soon.

[adamberry]

Yardy and Rashid have also had excellent tours, Ed Joyce did pretty well also.

Denly and Foster, it must be said, seemed to have it tough; Denly made just 50 runs in four innings, whilst Foster only managed 21, yet kept tidily, conceding just 7 byes in 2 matches. Foster's chances for the England keeper's spot in the near future appear to have diminished further in lieu of his batting.

[feverpitch]

Joyce scored a century today as England finished off their tour.

A tour with some encouragement: principally Carberry (a candidate to replace Cook in the ODI team) and Rashid, but Joyce, Onions and Yardy (who I do not think will ever make the grade internationally) too.

Why didn't Rob Key or Ed Smith skipper the side?