England Test squad for pre-Ashes camp 1. Andrew Strauss (capt), 2. James Anderson, 3. Ian Bell, 4. Ravi Bopara, 5. Tim Bresnan, 6. Stuart Broad, 7. Paul Collingwood, 8. Alastair Cook, 9. Andrew Flintoff, 10. Graham Onions, 11. Monty Panesar, 12. Kevin Pietersen, 13. Matt Prior, 14. Adil Rashid, 15. Ryan Sidebottom, 16. Graeme Swann
England XI to face Warwickshire Andrew Strauss (capt), James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Ravi Bopara, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Andrew Flintoff, Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior (wk), Graeme Swann
England Lions squad to face Australia Ian Bell (capt), Tim Bresnan, Joe Denly, Steven Davies (wk), Steve Harmison, Sajid Mahmood, Stephen Moore, Eoin Morgan, Graham Onions, Adil Rashid, Vikram Solanki
The above squads have just been announced which I find rather interesting.
Much as I would like a fully fit Flintoff in the side I am hoping that he's not an automatic choice and will need to prove himself just like any other cricketer would.
I assume that the England XI playing the warm up match against Warks is almost the complete England team although I'm not sure why Panesar is playing as he's hopelessly out of form.
It doesn't look as if Harmy will be playing as he's not in the training squad but is down to play for the England Lions. Edgbaston is such a flat track that all County Championship games played there have ended in draws since September 2007 until Durham beat Warks there last week thanks to a superb spell of hostile bowling by Harmison and Onions.
I'm not sure that it's a clever idea to let the Aussies have a look at Onions in a warm up game if they are going to play him in the real thing and if they are not going to play someone who is currently top of the bowling averages and in prime form then I wonder quite what the bloke has to do to get picked.
I notice that Justin Langer is busy promoting Adil Raschid saying that he must be in the side. I'm sure that they would love that as they would belt him all over the park