England A-Team tri series vs N Zealand & Sri Lanka

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Tue Aug 5 (50 ovs)
09:30 GMT | 10:30 local
04:30 EST1st Match - New Zealand A v Sri Lanka A
County Ground, Taunton


Wed Aug 6 (50 ovs)
09:30 GMT | 10:30 local
04:30 EST2nd Match - England Lions v Sri Lanka A
County Ground, Taunton
Fri Aug 8 (50 ovs)
09:30 GMT | 10:30 local
04:30 EST3rd Match - England Lions v New Zealand A
County Ground, Bristol
Sat Aug 9 (50 ovs)
09:30 GMT | 10:30 local
04:30 EST4th Match - New Zealand A v Sri Lanka A
County Ground, Bristol
Mon Aug 11 (50 ovs)
09:30 GMT | 10:30 local
04:30 EST5th Match - England Lions v Sri Lanka A
County Ground, New Road, Worcester
Tue Aug 12 (50 ovs)
09:30 GMT | 10:30 local
04:30 EST6th Match - England Lions v New Zealand A
County Ground, New Road, Worcester





Interesting tri-series going on here also, along with the ongoing AUS/S Africa/India A series. Good to see cricket boards playing these sort of series.

With not every country having strong first-class structures to prepare its players for international cricket. More A-team tours could help level the playing field and give selection a better guide as to whether their fringe players could be ready for the highest level.

A team tours by major nations could also be used to judge to readiness of associate nations for potential test status. The team that becomes the 11th test nation can't just be given it on baseless reasons like how Bangladesh got it in 2000.


From an English perspective, some interesting players on the international fringes on display here. Keeping an eye of Willey & Ravi Patel..

 

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EngLn 285/3 (46.3 ov, JJ Roy 12*, JWA Taylor 103*, RLB Rambukwella 0/36) - Match over | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Like the look of this ENG A line-up 2day, everybody except Parry you could see having a long future in the ENG senior team in some format.

 

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England Lions v New Zealand A, Tri-series, New Road Report : Rutherford takes NZ A to tri-series success | Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo

Good series for NZ back-up players in the end

@Chewie @ferg512

 

[Howsie]

Indeed. Glad to see Henry and to an extent Sodhi bowl well in patches.

Matt Henry is the big gun in this team for mine, I rate him up their with Southee and Boult. Special talent that's for sure, would love to see him in the test team before long. Wagner has been decent I suppose, but he's fairly limited. Henry is the kind of bowler who could rip through a test XI by himself. Southee and Boult are world class but NZ's bowling attack overall is still a little bit off. Henry will push it over the edge IMO.

 

[War]

Indeed. Glad to see Henry and to an extent Sodhi bowl well in patches.

Matt Henry is the big gun in this team for mine, I rate him up their with Southee and Boult. Special talent that's for sure, would love to see him in the test team before long. Wagner has been decent I suppose, but he's fairly limited. Henry is the kind of bowler who could rip through a test XI by himself. Southee and Boult are world class but NZ's bowling attack overall is still a little bit off. Henry will push it over the edge IMO.

Yes agreed 100%. Until Milne is ready for tests, Henry looks the perfect 3rd seamer behind Bolt/Southee to push it over the edge & closer to S Africa Steyn/Morkel/Philader or AUS Harris/Johnson/Siddle or Pattinson.

 

[Chewie]

Personally I don't see Milne pushing any of those three out of the test team in the future

 

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Personally I don't see Milne pushing any of those three out of the test team in the future

Ye unless he combines his raw pace with Mitchell Johnson like recent control. Of course if conditions suite like that recent test vs IND 2nd Test: New Zealand v India at Wellington, Feb 14-18, 2014 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo - you play him in an all pace attack.

 

[amir7500]

These were interesting matches.