The club's Premiership campaign thus takes precedence over a very winnable home cup tie against a side well out of form.
Rooney has been out of form this season after a poor World Cup and has faced allegations about his private life.
Then in the next over Mendis had Xavier Marshall caught at long-off and the out of form Shivnarine Chanderpaul chopped on to his stumps.
Strauss and Trott are playing pretty well, but they have not got too many match-winners, with Kevin Pietersen out injured and James Anderson out of form.
The procession continued as the talented but woefully out of form Mohammad Ashraful prodded to first slip, giving Anderson had figures of 3-10 in his seventh over.
Players like Phil Price, Paul McGinley, Thomas Bjorn, and Monty are struggling to get anything going, and Jesper Parnevik and Lee Westwood are shockingly out of form.
Wales head coach Gareth Jenkins had sympathy for Henson, but said he could not afford to select unfit or out of form players in his final 30-man squad.
It did not take long for Gallian, who has been out of form with the bat recently, to get his 50, striking David Lucas to the boundary for four.
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It was Morkel who struck next, in the 14th over, as Hussey, who has been woefully out of form and looked uncomfortable, lazily edged a full delivery to Kallis at second slip.
England believe that the fast bowlers will also benefit from the ball 'going through the top', but surely three seamers and two spinners - albeit one out of form - gives you every option?
The Russian had won all major titles since the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, but she has been out of form so far this season and failed to clear her final height of 4.80 meters.
Federer, who will defend his French Open title at Roland Garros next month, looked woefully out of form and made under 50 per cent of his first serves as he slumped to defeat in just over two hours.
With the run-rate plummeting as wickets fell, the arrival of a desperately out of form Paul Collingwood was perhaps not the tonic the England fans would have wanted, but the Durham man is nothing if not a fighter.
And Grant sprung to the defence of out-of-form goalkeeper Rob Green, whose failure to hold on to a Didier Drogba free-kick that led to Chelsea's goal.
Next to go should be the idea that "nation-building" (whether in Haiti, Somalia, Rwanda, Sudan or Bosnia) can be conducted by the U.N. on any basis other than the long-term commitment of substantial quantities of well-armed forces capable of imposing and carrying out a form of multilateral colonialism.
The pair met in the semifinals in Monte Carlo recently, where an out-of-form Djokovic crashed out 6-2 6-2.
The England post is unlikely to be vacant for some time, however, as Brian Ashton's unexpected achievement of leading an out-of-form team to the World Cup final means that he can expect to be offered a new contract.
The popular theory is that the national team's form is mirroring that of Munster's at club level, whose reliance on aging and out-of-form stars has seen them endure a poor season.
As a result, the out-of-form Michael Hussey (49 not out off 55 balls) - had only Australia's number nine, Nathan Hauritz, for company when the batting powerplay came.
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At 10:15 GMT on Friday, a traditional order of service will be gradually sent out in the form of prepared tweets, each no longer than 140 characters.
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Their famed passing game was largely absent, while the out-of-form Fernando Torres was withdrawn after 56 minutes.
There is, meanwhile, no surprise that out-of-form batsman Kevin Pietersen, omitted from England's limited-overs series returns to duty.
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His negative tactics were criticised after the defeats to Portugal and France, and his loyalty to the out-of-form David Beckham was also questioned.
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Worcestershire lost out-of-form Australian opener Phil Jaques for a duck, but Daryl Mitchell and Moeen Ali extended the lead to 189 by the close.
Watson, dropped by Jonathan Trott at mid-on off Chris Tremlett at 48, continued to play the aggressor when out-of-form captain Michael Clarke came to the crease.
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