is it just me….
or have the England Cricket Selectors ducked another important decision by leaving Kevin Pietersen in the starting 11 for today’s crucial test match against South Africa?
The Guy is so low on confidence he could walk under a closed door, and you do not need to be a cricketing genius to see he needs to gain some batting experience amongst lower quality players to build back up to the truly great batsmen he is capable of being.
The selectors had 2 options, 1 could of been to drop him down the batting order, maybe giving Ian Bell the number 3 slot and given KP some time to adjust with a worn ball and tired bowlers, or as I would feel fit, save him from the embarrassment of another low score and poor exhibition of batting.
Why do the selectors do this, time and time again they “keep faith” with an out of form player, waiting for the day it returns and they can then say presumably, “we did the right thing”!
Well, surely we have batsmen capable of achieving an higher score than KP has managed in this series, we cannot be so low on batsmen that we have to play out of form players regardless? if that was the case, where is the drive and ambition to play at the top of your game?
The KP I saw this morning in Joburg is not the swaggering “cocky” one that stood up to Australia in the Ashes series and ran down the crease to smash the God of Spin Shane Warne?
Do I blame KP? not as much as I do the pathetic and incompetent selectors, of which any half a dozen cricketing supporters would do a better job!
Or is it just me?
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