is it me…
Or are we completely losing touch with reality when it comes to the game of cricket? I mean, Andrew Strauss has not had a great run of form recently, but likewise it has not been rubbish either. So, when AS decided he needed a rest before getting ready for the battle of the Ashes, the media start to have a go!
Sorry, the Captain of the team is thinking ahead for the big matches we demand we win, and we want to have a pop! Come on, if you want to have a go at English cricket, turn you bazooka’s on the Selectors for sheer incompetence or the woeful batting display yet again of Kevin Pietersen or Alistair Cook.
The Selectors have nominated Cook to be the likely stand-in for Strauss has they say he needs the experience. Whatever happened to gaining experience in the County league’s? If we need an experienced captain, who has shown bottle and fight, we need to be selecting Collingwood and not Cook.
Bleeding selectors I am sure they must all be secret Aussie’s!
or is it just me?
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?
is it just me…or have the England Crickety team selectors got no bottle?
how many times do the current “so called batsmen” have to fail before they get dropped? It would not be so bad if it was just one of them in an innings which slipped up, but to see 4,5 or 6 of them failing to make a reasonable “knock” is not acceptable.
When a young BOWLER such as Broad becomes a consistent better batsmen than those who should do better, the selectors need to shake it up. No action is not an option, otherwise the selectors are culpable of “bottling” the tough decision needed.
Or is it just me?
Is it just me… or have the England Selectors got it in for poor “old” Mark Ramprakash?
I accept that at the age of 38 he is no spring chicken and he will not be around for the next world cup, (or will he?) anyway, someone who has been playing so well, so consistently, how can he NOT be chosen to play for England.
why can we not have the fresh approach shown by Fabio Cappello in picking players who are in form Now, and not those players who may have in the past had a good spell, but continue to under perform. (Andrew Strauss for example)
Or is it just me?