England World Cup squad awash with surprises

Mark Ealham earns a recall, as does Robert Croft. Alan Mullally's in from the cold and so's Ronnie Irani.

Not really, the closest thing to a surprise is Ravi Bopara's inclusion and just about everybody had tipped him to appear. Except us. But that's only because we couldn't be bothered and also didn't think you'd be interested.

Michael Vaughan (capt)
Ed Joyce
Ian Bell
Kevin Pietersen
Andrew Strauss
Paul Collingwood
Andrew Flintoff
Ravi Bopara
Paul Nixon
Jamie Dalrymple
Liam Plunkett
James Anderson
Sajid Mahmood
Jon Lewis
Monty Panesar

We're still coming to terms with our omission. We'll give it half an hour. If we're not over it by then, we'll give it another half hour.