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…really is starting to bear all the hallmarks of a slow motion train crash. Yesterday, on top of everything else, it was announced that Trescothick is going home. So. We’re without Trescothick, Collingwood and Giles, and Vaughan, Pietersen, (Simon) Jones and Udal are nursing injuries or sickness and may well not play.

On top of that it looks like we’re going to ask Freddie to captain the side. I really hope not. He’s averaged 8 with the bat since his arrival in India. Asking him to bowl the hard overs, improve with the bat and captain? No chance. Making him captain on top of everything else will ruin his chances of having any kind of tour.

Suddenly we’re looking very weak again. 50% of the side are new faces, and a good few of whom are only there, sad to say, because of a of lack of depth in selection possibilities, not because they would honestly be vying for a place in the side if the first choice eleven were fit. Let us hope upon hope that a good English summer brings some fitness to the players and some depth to our choices before the Ashes.