will be tougher than Pakistan, even with home advantage in our favour. The reason we did well in Pakistan was because our batsmen put runs on the board, allowing the bowlers some margin. But our batting is still quite fragile and we will have to work hard to make sure that we score a lot of runs, because England surely will. I just don't see the England line-up folding up like Pakistan did a couple of times in the last series. England will score heavilly, and we will have to match them with a ton of runs, atleast in the first innings.
The England lineup will look something like this :
Trescothick
Vaughan
Butcher
Hussain
Thorpe
Flintoff
Read
Giles
Batty
Harmison
Hoggard
Two specialist seamers backed up by Flintoff, two different types of spinners and a very strong batting order; we surely have our work cut out for us. For more on each player, you guys can read my piece on the front page!
