Test Cricket: Tim Bresnan or Sajid Mahmood or Liam Plunkett

[fineleg]

may replace Sidebottom if he cannot recover. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/7744439.stm Bresnan seems to have impressed folks so far.

[Cricketics]

they should forget all those names and should call Hoggard instead. i bet he can get atleast sehwag or Gambhir early. he has a decent record in India too and is aware of the conditions

[Mr. Wicket]

rofl... Bresnan is a completely crap medium pace trundler. Mahmood has potential but no consistency - but can produce the odd good ball. Plunkett's batting is more threatening than his bowling.

[Sachinism]

they should forget all those names and should call Hoggard instead. i bet he can get atleast sehwag or Gambhir early. he has a decent record in India too and is aware of the conditions

True, Hoggard is a better bowler than all of those proposed

[bharat297]

Hoggard or Simon Jones.

[cochise]

Yeah...where the hell is Simon Jones? What happened to him?

[msb1991]

England are absolute mugs for not going with Kabir Ali who struck every 30 balls in FC cricket last year.

[fineleg]

England are absolute mugs for not going with Kabir Ali who struck every 30 balls in FC cricket last year.

if he is that good, i wonder why Eng aren't even discussing him? Strange indeed.

[msb1991]

Indeed. The Wisden Cricketer did a fascinating piece on the inexplicable ignoring of Kabir Ali. One can only assume that they have not watched him bowl since his last international stint, where he was about 80mph (130kph). These days, he bowls into the late 80s (140kph) and therefore is a much more potent wicketaker - wicket taking being Kabir's 'thing' so to speak.