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Looks like England might actually put up a fight today......163 - 2 at the mo with 2 dropped catches
Bat on............DT_Xtremez_09:
Nice one now 164 - 3 less than a Min after you postedDT_Xtremez_03:
Looks like England might actually put up a fight today......163 - 2 at the mo with 2 dropped catches
Bat on............DT_Xtremez_09:
Trust Tashy Man to jinx the England team.
In future keep yer trap shut!!! DT_Xtremez_15:
Maybe we can take the time for a re-think of our match tactics, core players and management now...
How about attacking the powerplays, not allowing an out of form skipper to announce himself fit and selfishly keep more in form batsmen out of the team (Loy et al), Drop Flintoff down the order and treat him as a pure bowler for a bit, never let Mahmood wear an England shirt again and maybe most controversially of all try life without Peterson for a bit...He may be a great batsmen at times but is he a team player and is he any good for the squad?
Right.....
A new coach (but I don't know who, before this tournament I would have said Bob Woolmer).
New captains - Paul Collingwood for ODIs, Andrew Strauss for Tests. This may release Vaughan to regain the form that saw him become the world's leading Test run scorer in the year before he took over from Nasser Hussain.
Drop Michael Vaughan from ODIs - he's a Test batsman, limited overs does not suit him.
Drop Kevin Pietersen. The tendencies he displayed in his penultimate season with Nottinghamshire are now all too evident with England. He is world class, of that there is no doubt, the No 1 player in the world. But he's not a team player, and the words of Glenn McGrath are large in my mind, something along the lines of he'd rather be playing in the No 1 team than be the No 1 player. When he's realised that actually he is not bigger than the three lions on his chest and he's smashing bowlers to all parts of Hampshire then bring him back.
Drop Andrew Flintoff. Woefully out of form - go back to Lancashire buddy and sort yourself out. You'll be back before the end of the summer, I'll wager.
Paul Nixon, despite a great second half of the winter, is not the future. The appallingly treated Chris Read is.
Drop Sajid Mahmood - from ODI's. I still believe he is a Test bowler.
Drop James Anderson, bring in Stuart Broad.
The mention of the name Steve Harmison should be punishable by a public flogging in the middle of the square.
Bring back Banger.
Rob Key never, at any point, suddenly became a bad player.
Mark Ealham can still do a job for us in this summer's ODI's. If Paul Nixon can get a game, why not Ealham?
There surely can be no way back for the King of Spain, in the light of Monty Panesar's performances.
Just a few thoughts. I'm far from done, but my cup doth not runneth over - I need some tea.
Anyone going to be at Trent Bridge on Sunday to see the Outlaws hammer the Tykes all over the county DT_Xtremez_28: ?