England today named a 13-man squad for next week’s Third npower Test Match
against Australia at Trent Bridge (August 2-6)
ECB Media Release29-Jul-2001England today named a 13-man squad for next week’s Third npower Test Match
against Australia at Trent Bridge (August 2-6).Surrey quick bowler Alex Tudor and Glamorgan off-spinner Robert Croft are
included in the squad along with Usman Afzaal who made his Test debut
earlier this summer in the First npower Test against Australia at Edgbaston.Michael Atherton will again captain the side in the absence of the injured
Nasser Hussain. Hussain is now aiming to be fit for the Headingley Test
Match along with England’s other injured batsmen, Graham Thorpe and Michael
Vaughan.
Squad: Born Caps Michael Atherton (Lancashire) (captain) 23.3.68 112 Usman Afzaal (Nottinghamshire) 9.6.77 1 Mark Butcher (Surrey) 23.8.72 29 Andrew Caddick (Somerset) 21.11.68 47 Robert Croft (Glamorgan) 25.5.70 20 Darren Gough (Yorkshire) 18.9.70 52 Mark Ramprakash (Surrey) 5.9.69 43 Chris Silverwood (Yorkshire) 5.3.75 5 Alec Stewart (Surrey) 8.4.63 112 Marcus Trescothick (Somerset) 25.12.75 13 Alex Tudor (Surrey) 23.10.77 3 Ian Ward (Surrey) 30.9.73 4 Craig White (Yorkshire) 16.12.69 20
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Alex Tudor Photo © CricInfo |
Announcing the squad, Chairman of Selectors, David Graveney, said: “We did
not want to make wholesale changes to the squad for this Test Match. But we
feel we will need more variety in our attack at Trent Bridge and the
inclusion 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 greater
pace of Alex Tudor who has performed well for Surrey this season since
coming back from injury. We wanted to show continuity of selection by
including Robert Croft as he was included in the squad earlier in the season
and also performed very well on the winter tour of Sri Lanka.”
