No cricketer likes to be labelled a homer, but the stats suggest that England's batsmen are exactly that. Only Nasser Hussain and Andrew Flintoff of their probable top seven average more overseas than at home, and the top six give away 81 runs per innings when they step on a plane. But the grass of home is not so green for England's bowlers: they all average less overseas.

batting	home	away	difference
Trescothick	51.95	35.17	-16.78
Vaughan	65.00	27.94	-37.06
Butcher	39.77	25.43	-14.34
Hussain	36.97	37.16	0.19
Crawley	37.82	28.95	-8.87
Stewart	42.06	37.71	-4.35
Flintoff	13.69	24.94	11.25
bowling	home	away	difference
Flintoff	66.46	32.03	34.43
Giles	58.31	34.30	24.01
Caddick	30.08	28.65	1.43
Gough	28.15	26.90	1.25
Hoggard	35.41	26.19	9.22

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