Still No Sign Of One-Day Recovery

At the turn of the century the English Test team was in the doldrums and the desperate selectors argued that it was all cyclical and soon the England team would be revolved back up to the top. The argument had an element of truth, the results were so bad they simply had to get better.

The One-Day team are now in a familiar position. One-Day cricket should be a great leveller, as a match can turn on a single incident. This makes England's disasterous form all the more baffling. How can a team of talented cricketers only win 2 out of their last 10 One-Day matches? Especially when nine of them were at home. The margins of the defeats also make a mockery of the laws of probability, which suggest that the majority of One-Day games should be close.

Trying anything different would be better than simply blundering along as we are. Perhaps we should simply select the same team for One-Day and Test cricket and see how we go from there.