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Post by Shireblogger on Feb 4, 2014 21:19:38 GMT 1
Pietersen's time has come and gone. He's clearly more trouble than he's worth, and now is the time to start building a new squad.
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Post by raliverpool on Feb 4, 2014 22:07:55 GMT 1
Pietersen's time has come and gone. He's clearly more trouble than he's worth, and now is the time to start building a new squad. He was England's top scorer on our last tour. So if he should be ditched then what does that say about Ian "I refuse to move up the batting line up from 5 to 3" Bell; Joe "yet another overhyped, overrated Yorkshireman" Root; or worst of the lot Alastair "spineless batting, atrocious, uninspired one dimensional captaining" Cook; etc. He's only 33. Sachin Tendulkar has just retired from Test cricket aged 40. England's leading runner scorer Graham Gooch carried on playing Test Cricket until he was 41. Those titans of the game - Ashley Giles (54 Tests, 20.89 Bat, 40.69 Bowl), Paul Downton (30 Tests, 19.62 Bat, 70/5 Catches/Stumpings) and some no-mark called James Whitaker (1 Test, 11 Bat) - agree "unanimously" that following the recent Ashes debacle, the only sensible thing to do is finish the international career of our best player and our highest run-scorer on the tour. It's like having an English Football team with a selection committee consisting of David Batty, Carlton Palmer & Stan Collymore deciding to end the international career of Steven Gerrard FFS. It is the ECB (Giles Clarke downwards), in its entirety, that should be retired. Poor tour planning, poor selection, poor team management, great potential players go from their counties to the England set up only to have their potential greatness coached out of them by the ECB coaching staff (led by Gooch - Bat & David Saker - Bowl) to become shellshocked mediocrities - and not content with that, they end the career of their best batsman on the specious grounds that he doesn't always give unqualified support to the dismal party line. It is little more than an outdated Downton (Sh)Abbey smug, tedious little back slapping old Etonian conservative England club which makes the inept (English) Football Association look as progressive a business and man management project wise as John Lewis stores. Roll on (again) to the IPL 7 on ITV4 in April, at least I can watch some proper entertainment; unlike the dour pathetic excuse put out in the name of England over the winter.
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Post by rewardman on Feb 4, 2014 23:01:09 GMT 1
"limited-overs coach Ashley Giles described him as a "million-pound asset".
then
"ECB said the England management, which includes limited-overs coach Ashley Giles, Downton and national selector James Whitaker, agreed "unanimously" that Pietersen would not be part of their plans"
Hmmm! Sure sounds like it was 'unanimous'
An atrocious decision. I can't wait to read what Boycott has to say.
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