cricket with balls

Yesterday I wrote all about how afraid of MPV all Australians are.

But there is one man from the 2005 Ashes that will actually send chills down the spines of some.

Simon Jones, the old gabba knee reverse swinging male model himself.

He is fit again, sort of, and ready to push out Amjad Khan or Ryan Sidebottom.

Surely a fit Simon Jones playing is a much more dangerous weapon than the non-captaining Vaughan.

At his age, without a stroppy resignation from the top job on his record and with the ability to be a handful with an old ball, Australia would much rather MPV in at 3 and Simon Jones playing county cricket.

Yet Simon Jones couldn’t crack it for the top 25 Ashes hopefuls.

The England Performance Squad:
Tim Ambrose, James Anderson, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Andrew Flintoff, James Foster, Stephen Harmison, Robert Key, Amjad Khan, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Sajid Mahmood, Monty Panesar, Samit Patel, Kevin Pietersen, Matthew Prior, Adil Rashid, Owais Shah, Andrew Strauss, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann, Michael Vaughan, Luke Wright.

Vaughan did, ofcourse.

Jones is oviously less of a Ashes threat than Dimi Mascarenhas or Luke Wright.