England T20 squad - how many FFS's will there be?

Announced tomorrow apparently - just how many FFS's can we fit into the squad? It's a 30 man pick so there's plenty of opportunity to get some real donkeys in that squad.

My prediction - the king of all FFS's Mr Lewis himself will be in the squad.

Sajid Mahmood FFS will also be selected.

On positive selections - I'll be extremely pissed orf if Graham Napier can't make a 30 man squad, and I hope they've forgiven FatSam for eating all the pies.

Any random out of the blue selections you can think of?

God's gift to nothing - Joe Denly

Darren Pattinson

I was just about to post the same!

Chris Schofield

Basil wrote:God's gift to nothing - Joe Denly

Joe has definitely insulted the Bas family somewhere along the line

I think Jamie Dalrymple will get in.

spangler wrote:I think Jamie Dalrymple will get in.

That would definitey be a double FFS, and worth 20 forum points.

Perhaps not completely random and out of the blue, but I think Dawid Malan could make the 30.

JKLever wrote:

Basil wrote:God's gift to nothing - Joe Denly

Joe has definitely insulted the Bas family somewhere along the line

Just think he's over-rated. How many ducks was it last season?

As for FFS selections, I wouldn't be surprised to see Tim Murtagh make the list.

Henry wrote:As for FFS selections, I wouldn't be surprised to see Tim Murtagh make the list.

Oh well, if we're going to be silly - David Wigley

I'd like to see James Benning in there. Not a great batsman but at least he gives it a whack. I'd give Mustard another go as wicket-keeper seeing as he had a decent few matches in Twenty20. Somebody like Luke Wright is an obvious choice in this format. I'd happily retain Andrew Strauss who has shown signs of aggression in shortened games recently. I can't agree about Joe Denly - he was top run scorer in Twenty20s last year so has to be worth a place in a 30-man squad, ffs. There are obviously a few definites; Pietersen, Flintoff, Shah. I'd happily see Ian Bell in the squad on the proviso that only one of Bell and Strauss can ever appear in the same side. How about;

Robert Key
James Benning
Joe Denly
Kevin Pietersen
Owais Shah
Andrew Strauss*
Ravi Bopara
Paul Collingwood
David Sales
Dawid Malan
Samit Patel
Ian Bell
Luke Wright
Phil Mustard
Steven Davies
Matt Prior
Graeme Swann
Adil Rashid
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Andrew Flintoff
Stuart Broad
Graham Napier
James Anderson
Kabir Ali
Sajid Mahmood
Chris Tremlett

The rest's a bit of a lottery - the like of Nayan Doshi have very good Twenty20 statistics so expect something mad like that. Everyone else is pretty shit so maybe just pick

Is Ryan McLaren English or South African at the moment?

Ok, i'm a little bored, so here's my attempt at the 30-

Batsmen-

Strauss(c)
Bopara
Pietersen
Shah
Collingwood
Bell FFS
Cook FFS
Patel
Trott
Denly
Malan

Keepers/All rounders-

Prior
Davies
Ambrose
Mascarenhas
Flintoff
Wright
Napier
Rashid
Bresnan

Bowlers-

Anderson
Broad
Sidebottom
Harmison FFS
Amjad FFS
Swann
Batty FFS
Tremlett
Mahmood
Murtagh FFS


Any names i've missed that are in contention?

Yardy

Shaun Udal and Paul Nixon.

Michael Vaughan

Stuart Law

Ramps

embee wrote:Michael Vaughan FFS

Astute observation.

Napier?

Mark Butcher

Merlin wrote:

embee wrote:Michael Vaughan FFS

Astute observation.

Napier?

Hardly a FFS.

Just out of interest, England players with;

1000+ Twenty20 runs:

Darren Maddy
Ali Brown
Mark Ramprakash
Mal Loye
Jonathan Trott
David Sales
Owais Shah

At least one Twenty20 hundred:

Darren Maddy
Marcus Trescothick
Luke Wright
Dawid Malan
Mal Loye
Ian Thomas

An average of 35+:

Dawid Malan
Marcus Trescothick
Jonathan Trott

10+ scores of fifty or over:

Darren Maddy
David Sales

50+ wickets:

Simon Cook
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Graham Napier
Nayan Doshi
Tim Murtagh

A bowling average of under 20:

Graham Napier
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Chris Tremlett
James Anyon
Andrew Flintoff
Ryan Sidebottom
Jim Allenby
Nayan Doshi
Simon Marshall

An unusually low (under 7 an over) economy:

Gary Keedy
Andrew Flintoff
Simon Marshall
Shaun Udal
Graeme Swann
Nayan Doshi
Stuart Broad
Ryan Sidebottom

I excluded a few players who have already 'played' for England at a certain Twenty20 tournament to both their and our great shame, including but not limited to Chris "GOD" Schofield.

Jon Lewis FFS.



I don't know why he wasn't selected.

*Serious Post Alert*

JKLever wrote:

Merlin wrote:

embee wrote:Michael Vaughan FFS

Astute observation.

Napier?

Hardly a FFS.

Who Vorn or Napier?
Wasn't meant to be (for Napier)

Based on last season alone, Napier should have been in the WIndies ahead of Dimmers... but, again, I guess it's a case of the face not fitting the ECB profile.