Collingwood for captain

The English World T20 squad has been announced, and Colly's heading it. If you thought Rob Key, you thought wrong. He's in the squad of course, and so is James Foster as wicketkeeper, but he's just not captain.

England are finally giving their poached Irishman Eoin Morgan a game.

Napier's on the list.

And apparently Samit Patel is still too fat for cricket. Good days.

The squad: Paul Collingwood (capt), James Anderson, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Andrew Flintoff, James Foster, Robert Key, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Eoin Morgan, Graham Napier, Kevin Pietersen, Owais Shah, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, Luke Wright

Strauss misses out on T20 world cup

He's not exactly the best T20 player around, averaging 18.5 from 28 matches, and that's far below some of the scores of the most valuable contributors to the T20 game. If England were going to keep him for this, it would be for the captaincy. But now that he's out, there's an important question at hand?

Who's in? Colly? You'd expect it to be him, but he doesn't even want the captaincy. Can't say I would either if I were on the team. However, in my current armchair position, I'd happily accept the England captaincy if it ever came my way. I'm sure I could benefit the team. Here's what Collingwood had to say:

"Whoever takes it I'm sure will do a very good job. But there's a lot of things to happen between now and then, a coach to come in and things like that. We will have to wait and see, but I would have to take some persuading to do that job."

KP's also ruled himself out of the captaincy, not that anyone wants him to do it, I'm sure.
That leaves Rob Key? Or a more experienced member of the side? Time will tell. In any case, England's not going to win the World Cup so I'm sure they don't have to worry too much.

Just kidding. Of course they'll win the World Cup.
Of course.