How England can break their losing streak

Ask any gambler about a run of bad luck and their will provide you with a whole host of reasons for it. Ask them what they do to change their luck and not many have a sensible answer.

Now, I am not saying that England are having a run of bad luck. They're not. Quite simply they are under-performing. However, the reason why I start with a gambling analogy is this:

From the very beginning of this tour the Selectors have gambled. They gambled on Freddie and lost (in respect of winning matches - the gamble on his fitness has paid off to some degree); they gambled on Trescothick and lost; they gambled on Giles and lost. In fact, when you look at wickets taken and run scored over the whole tour they placed very few safe bets.

So, how do they turn it round? Well, in OZ they can't. They have players that are good but the squad lacks depth. What they can do is use this as an opportunity to expose some of the under-used players to tough cricket in an attempt to ready themselves for the World Cup. They is now no point in trying to compete with Australia. Use the remaining games as practice matches.

Then go home and regroup. The 15 men that they take to the West Indies MUST be fit and up to the task. There is no point in taking them if they do not fulfil both criteria. Here's the 30 men picked so far:

England 30-man ICC Cricket World Cup squad:

1. James Anderson (Lancashire)2. Ian Bell (Warwickshire)3. Ravi Bopara (Essex)4. Stuart Broad (Leicestershire)5. Glen Chapple (Lancashire)6. Rikki Clarke (Surrey)7. Paul Collingwood (Durham)8. Alastair Cook (Essex)9. Jamie Dalrymple (Middlesex)10. Andrew Flintoff (Lancashire)11. Ashley Giles (Warwickshire)12. Matthew Hoggard (Yorkshire)13. Ed Joyce (Middlesex)14. Amjad Khan (Kent)15. Jon Lewis (Gloucestershire)16. Mal Loye (Lancashire)17. Sajid Mahmood (Lancashire)18. Paul Nixon (Leicestershire)19. Graham Onions (Durham)20. Monty Panesar (Northamtonshire)21. Kevin Pietersen (Hampshire)22. Liam Plunkett (Durham)23. Matt Prior (Sussex)24. Chris Read (Nottinghamshire)25. Owais Shah (Middlesex)26. Vikram Solanki (Worcestershire)27. Andrew Strauss (Middlesex)28. Chris Tremlett (Hampshire)29. Michael Vaughan (Yorkshire)30. Michael Yardy (Sussex)

Half will fall soon. Here's my selection:

Anderson
Bell
Broad
Collingwood
Cook
Darylmple
Flintoff
Hoggard
Loye
Panesar
Pietersen
Read
Solanki
Strauss
Vaughan