Your Country's Test and ODI teams........

....all get killed in a tragic areoplane crash.

Which teams do you quickly pick?

I got this dream once.

I don't want any small talk.
Just answer the question.

Difficult one this - let me sleep on it.

Bit early for sleep, isn't it?

Not really - after spending two days putting down a wooden floor (with the help of the kitchen animal of course), I am completely knackered.

Have to attend a memorial service on his behalf tomorrow (he has to see a specialist because he stops breathing while sleeping and he is getting tired of me poking him in the ribs) and then go and pick up my credit card which I left at a shop after church this morning, then fill up my car (petrol is going up AGAIN and the get some groceries to last us for a couple of days. Buys groceries is the job of the kitchen animal.

I'm glad this isn't turning into one of those threads that veers away from the actual topic in question.

*Buckaroo* wrote:I got this dream once.

Pleasant or nightmare?

mynah wrote:

*Buckaroo* wrote:I got this dream once.

Pleasant or nightmare?

latter.

*Buckaroo* wrote:

mynah wrote:

*Buckaroo* wrote:I got this dream once.

Pleasant or nightmare?

latter.

Write to them and tell them. Should freak the aerophobes out... :laule:

Demelza wrote:I don't want any small talk.
Just answer the question.

this is deeply disturbing.

I think you need some rest.

Trescothick
Strauss
Key
Ramprakash
Gidman
Clarke
Ambrose
Croft
Tremlett
Plunkett
Mahmood

I know Croft has officially retired from international cricket, but I doubt if he would refuse the call under these circumstances.

No Flintoff as he won't be fit until April.

I don't understand the question. Am I picking a replacement XI, or changing my allegiance to a different country who have yet to perish in a ball of flames?

Dello wrote:I don't understand the question. Am I picking a replacement XI, or changing my allegiance to a different country who have yet to perish in a ball of flames?

Picking an emergency replacement for YOUR country.
Basil had no problem understanding the question!

BTW, you have to assume that Flintoff also popped his clogs.

Trescothick
Keysie
Ramprakash
Sales
Strauss *
Hildreth
Ambrose +
Rashid
Caddick
Tremlett
Mahmood

That'll do.

Oooh, I like your choice of Caddick.

Tick and a star for you.

Well, it was either him or Plunkett, and my conservative desire for someone to land the ball on the cut strip swayed me in Caddy's direction.

He's still as good as he ever was.

Just noticed you also have Hildreth there, and of course Trescothic

I wondered about James Foster for keeper.

Well, Timmy Ambrose is out in India with the Academy squad (or whatever they're called now - developmental lion cubs, or something) and is captaining them, so he's probably edging selection ahead of Foster, I'd suggest.

Okay, sorted.

Langer
Rogers
Katich (Birt)
Hussey D
Voges (Marsh/Hodge)
Marsh
Haddin
Hogg
Noffke
Tait
Hilfenhaus (Bracken)

Langer?
You'd nick the Somerset captain?

Demelza wrote:Langer?
You'd nick the Somerset captain?

He's come back for a year to add some experience . . .

But I just read this......."On 19 September 2007 it was announced that Langer would stay with Somerset (as captain) for the 2008 season."

Sorry, you can't have him.

Trescothick
Strauss*
Carberry
Ramprakash
Hildreth
Rashid
Hamilton-Brown
Flintoff
G Jones+
Harris
Tremlett