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Andrew Miller at The Oval
September 21, 2011
The end of a long and successful season comes to England, with cricketers from India having finally made it home, hot pursued by Leicestershire and Somerset County Cricket representatives in the Champions League. In just two weeks, the British team in India also, to prepare their return series of five ODIs, but right now, they went to the oval, dodging the showers fall and prepare a couple of Twenty20 fixtures which only serves as a reminder of previous administrative madness.
Allen Stanford Memorial Series (as these games are not officially known) is caused by the collapse of the Stanford Super Series after a single incarnation, ill-conceived in November 2008. The ECB had sold the rights to four years the value of these events, a tournament at home and a square "to 20 20/20" Bonanza cash in Antigua, then immediately spent all kinds of radio and television they had received Sky. The result was the faked attempt to fulfill their contractual obligations, an unsatisfactory compromise that involves two skeletal international teams will be led by an England captain of the sixth calendar year, Graeme Swann.
However, there are in England point of view, the clear value of the exercise is going on. Exactly 12 months, the team will be in Sri Lanka to launch a defense of the crown of the World Twenty20, India, once again lined up an opponent in the primary stages. Because of how rare form at international level has been no likelihood of competitive training between now and then is happy with the defending champion.
England has another furniture against India to threaten Calcutta, Oct. 29, then probably no more than four games bilateral scheduled home and away in front of selecting players for the tournament in 2012. Therefore, this double head-to or claims of more than just a handful of candidates, both those who play and those who lack.
Although regular Twenty20 captain Stuart Broad, who is absent through injury, the balance of the squad of England is still targeting a not too distant future. He said a decision not to extradite captaincy update manager, Alastair Cook, confirms the impression that Britain intends to make the most of a bad situation and to use these lamps to measure their development Twenty20.
Alex Hales and Craig Kieswetter you can expect the opening in both the furniture with a license to remove the strings in order to follow closely in the Middle is likely to include three players - Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes and SE Butler - who have not still celebrating the twenty-second birthday. Once again, a new look, however, live in Surrey decision to bring in the first team, bowler Stuart Meaker network provides a reminder that the pressure points is of paramount importance.
"Every opportunity I get to make a shirt in England, I will grab with both hands, regardless of what time of year is it," said Jade Dernbach, one of the players who now seems certain to attend the defense of his title. "With the Twenty20 world come next year, all games that we can be of crucial importance. There are only five or six games before, so these two games represent a very integral to the plans and processes for this tournament. "
Dernbach first season of international cricket has been eventful, to say the least. It was named for the World Cup squad in Sri Lanka in March, has impressed the voters of the Lions tour in England in the Caribbean. Although he does not play in what turned out to be the last match of England in this competition, the elimination of ten wickets in the quarter-finals, he has since featured 10 of their 11 ODIs this summer, and two Twenty20 against Sri Lanka at Bristol and India at Old Trafford, where he was named Man of the Match after a match winning spell of 4-22
"I set myself some goals at the beginning of the year, but I do not know, this is going to happen? Probably not," Dernbach said. "You want us, it comes and I'm happy to have been so much cricket in England this summer."
A similar story applies to the Caribbean, but in his case, the new look of the character of their team is more by necessity than choice. Many of their key players are absent, either through contractual disputes in the case of Chris Gayle, and or by the requirements of the Champions League, where Kieron Pollard played for the Indians in Mumbai, where Trinidad and DIBS Tobago first several players who would otherwise offer here - including Darren Bravo, Ravi Rampaul and Adrian Barath.
Regardless, Ottis Gibson, the coach of West Indies, "tried to put matches in a positive light. "We have not many games that led to the World Cup, so these two meet at a great time for us," he said. "We have a newish looking team, but it gives our guys a good chance to see where they are in the form of international cricket. England are still world champions do not forget, so we take these games very seriously in our build-up. "
England start the series as favorites, partly because of familiarity with the circumstances, but also the deep trust of the players chosen to have recovered during the summer. As explained in Dernbach, information about what the team has achieved all its forms this summer, could not help but rub newcomers to the team - not least the Bairstow, who produced 41 off 21 balls matchwinning is his debut in Cardiff last week.
"I believe in one day cricket, you want to be able to go out and express yourself and what made you successful is that you still want to do," Dernbach said. "People are going to return you 100% of your decisions, and that's what happened to Jonny. For him to come in and look so at home was a remarkable achievement. It is a tribute to the feeling we have in the cloakroom. We taught him to feel welcome, he felt at home, and he was able to produce their best cricket, that is what we want.
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