Champions Trophy 2017 Squads

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So the first Champions Trophy squad has been announced with others soon to come.

South Africa
Hashim Amla
Quinton de Kock
Faf du Plessis
AB de Villiers (c)
JP Duminy
David Miller
Farhaan Behardien
Chris Morris
Wayne Parnell
Andile Phehlukwayo
Dwaine Pretorius
Kagiso Rabada
Morne Morkel
Imran Tahir
Keshav Maharaj

Mostly as expected. Only real talking points are Morkel and Maharaj ahead of Ngidi and Shamsi

More squads:

Bangladesh
Tamim Iqbal
Soumya Sarkar
Imrul Kayes
Sabbir Rahman
Mushfiqur Rahim
Shakib Al Hasan
Mahmudullah
Mosaddek Hossain
Mashrafe Mortaza (c)
Mustafizur Rahman
Rubel Hossain
Taskin Ahmed
Shafiul Islam
Sunzamul Islam
Mehedi Hasan

As expected. Still no Nasir Hossain (wonder if there's some kind of story behind that).

Australia
Steve Smith (c)
David Warner
Aaron Finch
Travis Head
Chris Lynn
Glenn Maxwell
Moises Henriques
Marcus Stoinis
Matthew Wade
Pat Cummins
John Hastings
Josh Hazlewood
James Pattinson
Mitchell Starc
Adam Zampa

More surprises here, the biggest being no Faulkner or Khawaja, and the inclusion of Henriques.

Sri Lanka
Upul Tharanga
Niroshan Dickwella
Kusal Perera
Kusal Mendis
Chamara Kapugedera
Dinesh Chandimal
Asela Gunaratne
Angelo Mathews (c)
Thisara Perera
Lasith Malinga
Suranga Lakmal
Nuwan Pradeep
Nuwan Kulasekara
Lakshan Sandakan
Seekkuge Prasanna

New Zealand
Kane Williamson (c)
Martin Guptill
Ross Taylor
Tom Latham
Neil Broom
Luke Ronchi
Corey Anderson
Jimmy Neesham
Colin de Grandhomme
Trent Boult
Mitchell McClenaghan
Adam Milne
Tim Southee
Mitchell Santner
Jeetan Patel

England
Eoin Morgan (c)
Jonny Bairstow
Sam Billings
Jos Buttler
Alex Hales
Joe Root
Jason Roy
Ben Stokes
Moeen Ali
Chris Woakes
Liam Plunkett
David Willey
Jake Ball
Mark Wood
Adil Rashid

Pakistan
Azhar Ali
Ahmed Shahzad
Babar Azam
Umar Akmal
Fakhar Zaman
Sarfraz Ahmed (c)
Mohammad Hafeez
Shoaib Malik
Fahim Ashraf
Mohammad Amir
Wahab Riaz
Junaid Khan
Hasan Ali
Imad Wasim
Shadab Khan

India
Rohit Sharma
Shikhar Dhawan
Ajinkya Rahane
Virat Kohli (c)
Manish Pandey
Yuvraj Singh
Kedar Jadhav
MS Dhoni
Hardik Pandya
Umesh Yadav
Jasprit Bumrah
Bhuvuneshwar Kumar
Mohammed Shami
Ravindra Jadeja
Ravichandran Ashwin

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NZ have made rather short work of chasing Sri Lanka's 356/8, with Guptill retiring on 116 & Williamson on 88 before Broome & Anderson knocked off the remainder.

Most of the 9 bowlers NZ used shipped runs (SL used 8 recognised batsmen) & all 7 SL bowlers were fairly expensive. Note it was a squad vs squad field 11 & bat 11 match.

Sri Lanka have had a really poor build up to this tournament - would expect them to be the worst side on show.

Not sure it got a mention on here but they were soundly defeated by Scotland

No doubt Stokes will, not for the first time, be unfit for the PROPER cricket when it begins with Tests against SA in July.

Yeah it's pretty rare anyone chases down a score that high ...especially if they are rubbish and the opposition has a decent bowling attack. It's not even like it's a batsman paradise pitch.
In terms of the India innings they did get a bit bigger down but it's the chaps who should have been accelerating that scratched around and got out ...notably yuvraj.
That aside they had to be confident and bacjntheir bowlers to defend a total well over 300. Recent years may have seen a notable shift up on par scores but even so that must be seen as the sort of total that would win most games.
Pointing the finger at guys who scored in excess of 200 runs at almost one a ball isn't fair. Or the batting unit as a whole. It's the bowlers that let them down, and the Sri Lankan last all weighing in with brave runs. Maybe they rode their luck a bit too ...but when you're chasing a big total that's what you need to do.

Really blown the group way open, and England would be happy knowing there's a good chance one if India or S.A. will be out. If Aus fail to qualify too it leaves them with only one strong challenger....although we have seen that anyone in this tournament can beat any of the others on their day.

No weak teams. No wasted games. Good stuff.