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Anyone notice the lack of English playing for England?
Look how many foreigners have played for them. This is only going back 30 years. There's way more than this.
South Africans
Tony Greig
Allan Lamb
Ian Greig
Chris Smith
Robin Smith
Kevin Pietersen
Andrew Strauss
West Indians
Roland Butcher
Monte Lynch
Gladstone Small
"Daffy" DeFreitas
Norman Cowans
Wilfred Slack
Devon Malcolm
Neil Williams
Chris Lewis
Joey Benjamin
Australia
Jason Gallian
Ben Holioake
Adam Holioake
Tim Ambrose
Zimbabwe
Paul Parker
Graeme Hick
Phil Edmonds
New Zealanders (I'm really disgusted now)
Andy Caddick (Really disgusted because we trained him to be good).
India
Bob Woolmer
Robin Jackman
Vikram Solanki
Minal Patel
Nasser Hussain
Pakistan
Usman Afzaal
Owais Shah
Wales
Tony Lewis
Pat Pocock
Greg Thomas
Steve Watkin
Hugh Morris
Robert Croft
Simon Jones
Ireland
Ed Joyce
Northern Ireland
Martin McCague
Scotland
Mike Denness (You had a Scotsman captain your team. You English must be embarassed about that).
Gavin Hamilton
Peter Such
Dougie Brown
Hong Kong
Dermot Reeve
Germany
Paul Terry
Kenya
Derek Pringle
Jamie Dalrymple
Zambia
Neal Radford
Papua New Guinea
Geraint Jones
I'd go back further, but I don't think i'd live long enough.
If you've bothered to read this far, what do you think of all this?
51 foreigners in 30 years is a disgrace.
krishnamoorthynagaraja, the players you mentioned are born in England. I'm only listing people who are foreigners.
krishnamoorthynagaraja, the players you mentioned are born in England. I'm only listing people who are foreigners.
Once again, I'll say that I only listed "FOREIGN BORN PLAYERS". Mascarenhas is from Chiswick. I went through the names of every English player of the last 30 years, I think I would know.
Ireland isn't part of the UK, making Ed Joyce a foreigner. That still leaves 39 foreigners. Besides, it's not the UK cricket team, it's the English cricket team.
Data : 2008-12-09 03:49:56Good pointing out, I would like to see a England team filled with England born players.
Date : 2008-12-09 03:53:37
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