England go for a brace of gingers....

Yes, England have gone for the ginger twosome of Ian Bell and Ryan Sidebottom to bolster their squad for the next test at seam-friendly Chester-le-Street. Not sure if they are really ginger? It's a fact. Or at least it's been researched on Cricket Burble before and we found that the majority thought Bell was a ginge.

It seems that Paul Collingwood doesn't quite have enough ginge in there for the team quota. It occurs to me that England could do worse than bring in Glenn Chapple at some point too....or even Steve Kirby, and if one of the openers goes down then Joe Gatting has emerged down at Sussex and not only has a hint of ginge (I think - you decide), but also has a famous relative and averages 152 in first-class cricket. Now we need Flintoff to get fit and for Gareth Batty to be chosen as England's number 2 spinner rather than Panesar....

On our day we could have 4 ginger's minimum. Somehow I don't think it will win us The Ashes but if a ginger bias is what it takes to stop Harmison and Mahmood from getting recalls, then all's well that ends well.