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Current Cricket Series : South Africa vs Australia, West Indies vs New Zealand. Coming Up : India in NZ 2009.

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To win anything, only requirement is to know preciously what's that "anything". 'summarize your goal in two sentences, otherwise you don't have a goal' someone said, and I believe him. Is English cricket ready to make a priority list? here's a start..

Q : what England fans really want? an Ashes wining team or a cricket team that will win cricket matches, tours & tournaments like on going cricket world cup. Obviously second expectation is much tougher but that summarizes our goal in two sentences, doesn't it.

A : Marcus Trescothik is not a fall back option. He betrayed England team when pressure was highest (Ashes 2006 downunder) and now when he knows next Ashes series will be played in England itself (May 2009)- he is making a comeback. Even ECB selectors have given him a nod in 25 men squad for upcoming West Indies and India tours. Now if England are serious to win over Windies & Proteas and few other teams playing at home ~ fine. But its highly likely that Trescothik will have his Stress problems reoccur on a month long overseas tour. why not find another equally good Trecothick with those fluent drives & mighty hits now, rather than fall back to probably the only reason why England couldn't defend Ashes last time. I'm sure English county has several talents floating around. National selectors are always illusionised by famous players, but it's upto English cricket fans to make up mind.

An even worse possibility will come when Trescothick will score heavily against struggling Windies in May-June & then crack back to back centuries against popular Indian team in July this year. I've watched him play and know this man can bat on home pitches at least if not everywhere. So - he'll become a England captain contender. Denying him a shot at biggest job in English cricket for 6-10 months will become huge, specially when ECB is struggling in that department too.

25 men selected by ECB Michael Vaughan, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Jamie Dalrymple, Andrew Flintoff, Ed Joyce, Kevin Pietersen, Owais Shah, Andrew Strauss, Marcus Trescothik, Michael Yardy, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Steve Harmisson, Mathew Hoggard, Simon Jones, Jon Lewis, Sajid Mehmood, Paul Nixon, Graham Onions, Monty Panesar, Liam Plunkett, Matt Prior.

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