da premier bet： England today named a 13-man squad for next week’s Third npower Test Matchagainst Australia at Trent Bridge (August 2-6)
da imperador bet： ECB Media Release29-Jul-2001England today named a 13-man squad for next week’s Third npower Test Matchagainst Australia at Trent Bridge (August 2-6).Surrey quick bowler Alex Tudor and Glamorgan off-spinner Robert Croft areincluded in the squad along with Usman Afzaal who made his Test debutearlier this summer in the First npower Test against Australia at Edgbaston.Michael Atherton will again captain the side in the absence of the injuredNasser Hussain. Hussain is now aiming to be fit for the Headingley TestMatch along with England’s other injured batsmen, Graham Thorpe and MichaelVaughan.
Squad:Born CapsMichael Atherton (Lancashire) (captain) 23.3.68 112Usman Afzaal (Nottinghamshire) 9.6.77 1Mark Butcher (Surrey) 23.8.72 29Andrew Caddick (Somerset) 21.11.68 47Robert Croft (Glamorgan) 25.5.70 20Darren Gough (Yorkshire) 18.9.70 52Mark Ramprakash (Surrey) 5.9.69 43Chris Silverwood (Yorkshire) 5.3.75 5Alec Stewart (Surrey) 8.4.63 112Marcus Trescothick (Somerset) 25.12.75 13Alex Tudor (Surrey) 23.10.77 3Ian Ward (Surrey) 30.9.73 4Craig White (Yorkshire) 16.12.69 20
Alex Tudor
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Announcing the squad, Chairman of Selectors, David Graveney, said: “We didnot want to make wholesale changes to the squad for this Test Match. But wefeel we will need more variety in our attack at Trent Bridge and theinclusion of Alex Tudor and Robert Croft will give us more bowling options.”Dominic Cork misses out this time as we have decided to go for the greaterpace of Alex Tudor who has performed well for Surrey this season sincecoming back from injury. We wanted to show continuity of selection byincluding Robert Croft as he was included in the squad earlier in the seasonand also performed very well on the winter tour of Sri Lanka.”
