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England coach Andy Flower fears lack of cricket in the coming weeks could adversely affect http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964’ form going into the crucial Test series against South Africa, starting at The Oval next month.
“Between now and the Test series the amount of four-day cricket available to Strauss is non-existent,” said the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 coach Flower during a media encounter.
“He has got one game before the Test series so it is a bit of a problem. How we deal with that is not that easy,” he added further.
England are scheduled to play http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 in three One Day Internationals and a T20 International, before hosting Proteas in the first Test of the three-match series at the Oval in London, on July 19. But Andrew Strauss does not play limited-overs
international cricket, so he will be resting during that period.
The 35-year-old Transvaal-born left-handed batsman is also unlikely to get a chance in County cricket as the Friends Life T20 competition dominates the domestic schedule over the coming weeks. Strauss’ county side, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817 will play the only first
class match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GC-Smith-c1473 and men.
Strauss was facing the same problem when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Somerset-c843 CCC on loan. But this time around, even Somerset do not have much first-class cricket in
the next four weeks. The only first-class game Somerset will play before England start the home series against South Africa is a two-day warm up match against the tourists at Taunton, commencing on July 9, which means the home skipper would have to rush between
the games with Somerset and Middlesex.
Flower however, hinted at a secret plan, which according to him is quite tricky and needs further consideration before implementation.
“Andrew, batting coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Alan-Gooch-c60530 and I have an idea about how we can do that but it’s not ideal. It’s tricky but no decisions have been made,” said the England coach, who led the side to back-to-back ashes victories before guiding them to the top
of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Test rankings in August last year.
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