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Now that the countries are selecting their preliminary 30 men squad for the forthcoming World Cup, which players would you select for your country?


Here's my England 30 man preliminary squad


Batsmen
Alex Hales, Moeen Ali, James Taylor, Joe Root, Ian Bell, Eoin Morgan, Gary Ballance, James Vince, Chris Nash

All-Rounders
Ravi Bopara, Ben Stokes, Rich Pyrah, David Willey, Peter Trego, Paul Collingwood

Wicketkeepers
Jos Buttler, Sam Billings, Craig Keiswetter

Pace Bowlers
Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes, Liam Plunkett, Chris Rushworth, Chris Wood, Chris Jordan, Steve Finn, Toby Roland-Jones

Spinners
James Tredwell, Adil Rashid, Danny Briggs

Bhajji for Mishra and KL Rahul for Vijay. Rest, exactly the same as we have picked.

Moeen, Hales, Vince, Bell, Taylor, Ballance, Root, Morgan, Roy, Pietersen, Lumb

Kieswetter, Bairstow, Billings, Buttler

Bopara, Patel, Stokes, Woakes, Willey

Jordan, Broad, Anderson, Finn, Rankin, Gurney, Pyrah

Tredwell, Briggs, Parry.

I think naming 30 and raising the hopes of a bunch of players who have no chance of making the last 15 is a bad idea.

Batsmen.
Bell, Kieswetter, Hales, Taylor, Ballance, Morgan, Buttler, Vince.

All Rounders
Woakes, Stokes, Moeen.

Bowlers.
Anderson, Broad, Plunkett, Will Gidmam, Footitt, Finn, Rankin, Tredwell.

I don't think I could even name 15 players worthy of a place.

MY 30

Batsmen

Alex Hales, Moeen Ali,Gary Ballance,James Taylor,Eoin Morgan,Joe Root,Ravi Bopara,Jason Roy,James Vince, Chris Nash

All-rounders

Ben Stokes, Paul Collingwood,David Willey, Tim Bresnan, Darren Stevens

Wicket Keepers

Jos Buttler, Adam Wheater, Sam Billings,

Spinners

Adil Rashid, James Tredwell, Dean Cosker,

Seamers

Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes, Steve Finn, Chris Jordan, Harry Gurney, Liam Plunkett, Chris Wood, Graham Napier,

Batsmen:

Ballance, Bell, Hales, Lees, Lumb, Morgan, Root, Roy, Taylor, Trott, Vince.

Wicketkeepers:

Buttler, Kieswetter, Billings

All rounders

Ali, Stokes, Bopara, Rashid, Patel, Woakes

Spinners

Parry, Tredwell

Seamers

Anderson, Bresnan, Broad, Finn, Gurney, Jordan, Payne,

30 is frankly a bit of a nonsense

my 15 (assuming I can have anyone)

Hales, Bell, Trott, Pietersen, Vince, Buttler

Ali, Bopara, Collingwood

Anderson, Broad, Plunkett, Finn, Jordan, Tredwell

no taylor...?!??!?!?!

cricketfan90 wrote:no taylor...?!??!?!?!

I think the lack of a keeper is the more worrying bit about his team!

m@tt wrote:

cricketfan90 wrote:no taylor...?!??!?!?!

I think the lack of a keeper is the more worrying bit about his team!

Buttler's there...

I re-read the post twice trying to check if I was being stupid or not, couldn't see a keeper and then posted. Obviously blind. Ignore me...

My 3o for Oz;

Batsmen; Aaron Finch, Dave Warner, George Bailey, Cameron White, Steve Smith, Chris Lynn, Shaun Marsh, Usman Khawaja, Callum Ferguson, Adam Voges

All-rounders; Shane Watson, Mitchell Marsh, James Faulkner, Glenn Maxwell, Moises Henriqes

Wicket-keepers; Brad Haddin, Matthew Wade, Ben Dunk

Spinners; Xavier Doherty, Nathan Lyon

Seamers; Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jackson Bird, Kane Richardson, Ben Cutting, Josh Hazlewood, Gurinder Sandhu, Sean Abbott

That'll do. A pretty handy pool of players there. The selectors will have quite a job getting that down to 15. I've left Michael Clarke out because I reckon he's finished.

Aidan11 wrote:I don't think I could even name 15 players worthy of a place.

moeen
buttler

ermmmm

im struggling now

cricketfan90 wrote:no taylor...?!??!?!?!

First reserve

I'm being consistent with England policy