World Cricket II

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What if Trott didn't make the SA team. Amala, duPlessis-ku dhaan chance tharAingannA. Then blocking would be a dog-in-the-manger situation, no?
Of course same could be said of second Aussies whom India can hire. But there is a difference, no? (thangachchiya naai kadchichchu pA)

P_R enna kelvi edhu? Trott made it to under 15/19 and I have every reason to believe he would have made it to SA senior side if it wasn't Eng/County dangling the carrot...the chances of him getting a place in Saffer side is as good as Jac Rudolph

What I meant is, it is not like every test ONLY Trott or KP are seeing them home ('would be brought to their knees'). Is there a way to filter out matches where neither of them scored more than 20 in either innings? Strauss, maNi, Prior - someone or the other fires and does pitch in.

Eng lost 8 tests in the last 3 years..other than the Galle test in which Trott scored a 100 still Eng managed to lose it..even then KP didn't fire in that test ..in all other matches Eng have lost over the last 3 years KP/Trott haven't made any significant contribution.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/eng...m;view=results

so there is some correlation between KP/Trott scoring and Eng winning..suffice to say if it wasn't for these two mercenaries Eng test side would be brought it to its knees the first scorecard in the query should serve as a sneak peek into a Eng side with only home grown talents on the batting front.