Updated On: 12 August, 2012 08:05 AM IST | | PA Sport
The squad England's selectors will announce today for the last-ditch defence of their World No 1 status at Lord's ought to be entirely predictable and uncontroversial.
The only complication to be resolved should be which seamer — it will not be a batsman, unless England rip up their long-trusted template — makes way for the return of off-spinner Graeme Swann.
Kevin Pietersen, however, has ensured that such finer details will be relegated to mere footnotes.