Just the 職業 for Strauss as England captain 攻撃するs an Indian summer

By PAUL NEWMAN FOR THE DAILY MAIL Updated: 21:32 BST, 15 July 2011

They will be 需要・要求するing a stand to be 指名するd after him at Taunton to join those celebrating Sir Ian Botham, Marcus Trescothick and Andy Caddick after this.

Andrew Strauss will always be an 名誉として与えられる Somerset man now.

This was 使節団 遂行するd for the England captain, as the 6,000 （人が）群がる who gave him a standing ovation will 証言する. A fluent knock on a belter of a Taunton wicket against an Indian attack 行方不明の Ishant Sharma and Harbhajan Singh was just the 職業 for Strauss.

India drubber man: Strauss on his way to a 急速な／放蕩な 78

He will give thanks not just to Somerset for 許すing him to guest for them in India's 単独の warm-up match before the first 実験（する） but also to stand-in captain Alfonso Thomas for winning the 投げ上げる／ボディチェックする.

It enabled the England captain to make hay while the sun shone on Taunton before the clouds rolled in over the Quantock Hills after lunch.

With more rain 予測（する） today and tomorrow, Strauss was relieved to be able to 得る，とらえる his last chance to approach Lord's in a 肯定的な 明言する／公表する of mind.

He batted as if those problems against the left-arm pace of Chanaka Welegedara during the 実験（する） series against Sri Lanka were just a distant memory, not least against Zaheer 旅宿泊所, who 解任するd Strauss four times when India were last here four years ago.

Strauss 緩和するd off the 示す with a clip for two from his first ball from Zaheer, looking far from 十分な-pace on his return from 傷害.

When a 厚い inside 辛勝する／優位 off Sreesanth raced through midwicket for four, Strauss seemed to realise this would be his day and he sped to 78 from 98 balls, 16 of them 存在 despatched to the 境界, in an 開始 stand of 101 with Arul Suppiah.

使節団 遂行するd: Strauss looked in good nick before he was snared by India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Sahaduring

It could easily have gone wrong. When Strauss was on 20 he looked 猛烈に の近くに to 存在 lbw to Zaheer but umpire Graham Lloyd, former Lancashire batsman and son of Bumble, shook his 長，率いる. Then Strauss got a thin 辛勝する／優位 to the 脚-spinner Amit Mishra, preferred to Harbhajan Singh here, on 64 but the 副 wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, who was untidy while standing in for MS Dhoni, dropped a sitter. The same pair 結局 snared Strauss, off an inside 辛勝する／優位 の上に pad that lobbed up gently for the keeper.

No matt er. Duncan Fletcher, the ex-England coach now with India, had talked of Strauss 存在 the man with the problems but they will have 緩和するd かなり after this. Suppiah moved through the gears as the day continued against a lacklustre Indian attack.

Tendulkar 流出／こぼすd a comfortable 適切な時期 申し込む／申し出d by Nick Compton on 24, while Mishra 削減（する） his 手渡す in dropping dropped a sharp caught-and-bowled chance when Suppiah was on 71.

India 含むd the four bigname players who 行方不明になるd the 小旅行する of West Indies - Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar Zaheer and Sreesanth - but were 失望させるd in their 試みる／企てるs to make this a 13-aside practice match. Sensibly, to the 失望／欲求不満 of Fletcher, the ECB 法令d that this must be a proper match.

England selectors 選ぶ the squad for Lord's today but look sure to 保持する the six specialist batsmen 政策 that served them so wel l in Australia and against Sri Lanka. The only 問題／発行する is whether Stuart 幅の広い 保持するs his place in a four-man attack.

幅の広い bowled better as the match went on when playing for Nottinghamshire against Somerset at Trent 橋（渡しをする） this week, 解任するing Trescothick with a beauty, and seems to have 緩和するd 恐れるs about the 明言する／公表する of his left heel and 権利 ankle.

He remains the hot favourite to play ahead of Tim Bresnan and Steven Finn, who are probably 争う for the last place in the 12-man squad which is 発表するd tomorrow.