Time to blood a few new boys for the Bristol game then

and then get serious for the Pakistan games

England win the toss and bowl. Woakes in for Wood.

SL 42/3

63-5...

Again why bowl first? So many England batsman undercooked.

A third wicket for Tom Curran, fine catch by Bairstow. SL 116-7.

Not great advert for cricket, have been completed one sided. I believe Srilankans need serious rebuilding

I am less than 20 miles south of Bristol and the weather here is atrocious it looks lovely at Bristol

Match abandoned.

Yep.... The weather has cleared here now...hey ho

Lets hope we (Pakistan) provide better opposition next.

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posted 1 hour ago
Lets hope we (Pakistan) provide better opposition next.
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Pakistan will beat them in T-20's. difficult to predict on ODI's.

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comment by (K̇ash) I'm the Mané - Free Pales... (U1108)
posted 1 hour ago
Lets hope we (Pakistan) provide better opposition next.
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Pakistan will beat them in T-20's. difficult to predict on ODI's.
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No Buttler, Stokes and Archer.

We normally deposit the Curran brothers to the stands

7 members of the ODI bubble have tested positive with the entire squad to go into quarantine due to being close contacts.

Pakistan series will still go ahead with a brand new squad to be picked and captained by Stokes.

Brank new squad? Who are they going to call Darren Stevens?

Probably looking at:

1 - Banton
2 - Hales
3 - Vince
4 - Malan
5 - Stokes
6 - Buttler
7 - Bess
8 - Foakes
9 - Jordan
10 - Mahmood
11 - Stone

Still a good side

ECB statement:

https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/2184616

comment by (K̇ash) I'm the Mané - Free Palestine 🇵🇸 (U1108)
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Probably looking at:

1 - Banton
2 - Hales
3 - Vince
4 - Malan
5 - Stokes
6 - Buttler
7 - Bess
8 - Foakes
9 - Jordan
10 - Mahmood
11 - Stone

Still a good side
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Banton was in the original squad so he'll be no. Hales is a maybe, depends whether England are happy for him to return as he should be making squads anyway if they are. Malan dropped out for family reasons so unless anything has changed there then he's a no. Buttler is still injured.

Think it could be something like...

Salt
Jacks
Vince
Hain
Stokes (c)
Lawrence
Foakes (wk)
Jordan
C Overton
Mahmood
Virdi/Bess (can't think of of other spinners outside of Mo, Rash and Parkinson)

Hales (if not still in exile), Crawley, Brook, Duckett, Cox, J Overton, Gregory, Stone Sam Cook are potential players that could get a look in. Probably missed a few but just racking some names off my head.

Parkinson wasn't in the squad actually so he might get a look in.

New squad:

Ben Stokes (Durham, captain)
Jake Ball (Nottinghamshire)
Danny Briggs (Warwickshire)
Brydon Carse (Durham)
Zak Crawley (Kent)
Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)
Lewis Gregory (Somerset)
Tom Helm (Middlesex)
Will Jacks (Surrey)
Dan Lawrence (Essex)
Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire)
Dawid Malan (Yorkshire)
Craig Overton (Somerset)
Matt Parkinson (Lancashire)
David Payne (Gloucestershire)
Phil Salt (Sussex)
John Simpson (Middlesex)
James Vince (Hampshire).

Poor Hales. A starter for any other team in the world but can't even get in the B team.

Did he sleep with Morgan's wife or something?

Good chance for those to impress. Some seriously talented players there.

Pakistan favourites

He got a drugs ban on the eve of the world cup and despite winning the thing, it seems Hales hasn't been forgiven although I'm sure Giles said a few months ago that the door can't be closed on him forever. However if he can't get back in now then it must be.

I'm absolutely amazed Hain hasn't made this squad, I mean he should have made the main squad, the guy averages like 60 in List A cricket.

I know this is a B squad when the A squad was already missing a few and they'll probably have reasons like not picking too many players from one county, with most having 1 representative and few having 2. A few surprising call ups though but a few interesting ones too.

England win the toss and will bowl.

England team:

Phil Salt, Dawid Malan, Zak Crawley, James Vince, Ben Stokes, John Simpson, Lewis Gregory, Craig Overton, Brydon Carse, Saqib Mahmood, Matt Parkinson.