Cricket: 2014 India tour of England, 9th July-7th September
Discussion
Well done India.
I'm not a lover of knee jerk changes, but it is now time for change. Bring in some fresh blood, possibly Carberry to open. No idea who to make captain, I don't think Morgan is good enough at test level.
and I know not what happened at lunch, possibly change the caterers for the next test, it seemed to fall apart after the sandwiches.
I'm not a lover of knee jerk changes, but it is now time for change. Bring in some fresh blood, possibly Carberry to open. No idea who to make captain, I don't think Morgan is good enough at test level.
and I know not what happened at lunch, possibly change the caterers for the next test, it seemed to fall apart after the sandwiches.
Time to put a plan in place for the future. To do this successfully, England needs to look to the past for at least a couple of years.
They need a skilled, experienced captain. They need to stop making do with whoever is the least worst candidate from the current squad.
They also need a keeper who can actually catch the ball.
So appoint Chris Read as captain and keeper. Accept that he will only have 18-24months in the post. Make Root Vice-Captain and task Read to involve him deeply in every part of leading the team.
Send Cook back to the counties and find him a batting coach.
Prep Buttler to replace Read in 18-24 months.
Find the replacement for Anderson
Find two, maybe three spinners.
They need a skilled, experienced captain. They need to stop making do with whoever is the least worst candidate from the current squad.
They also need a keeper who can actually catch the ball.
So appoint Chris Read as captain and keeper. Accept that he will only have 18-24months in the post. Make Root Vice-Captain and task Read to involve him deeply in every part of leading the team.
Send Cook back to the counties and find him a batting coach.
Prep Buttler to replace Read in 18-24 months.
Find the replacement for Anderson
Find two, maybe three spinners.
Cook is currently too ineffective as a captain.
Look at 1st day, his bowlers were not delivering yet he couldn't motivate them too or they were delivering to the worst plan ever.
Today, we needed to bat through day and possibly gets the runs. Soon as wickets fall, he should be in the dressing room telling them calm and steady, ignore the wide bouncers as it's not a desperate run chase.
For me, Prior is done for this series - too many mistakes with gloves and bat. Stokes and Plunkett have done okay as have Broad and Anderson but i can see the former pairing being switched out
Bell needs to get some runs, he may survive into the next test but without a couple of big scores in that then he's done.
Cook will probably survive simply because there's no-one else to lead the team but some radical change needs to happen ASAP.
Suspect KP is quiet enjoying this in a perverse way.
Look at 1st day, his bowlers were not delivering yet he couldn't motivate them too or they were delivering to the worst plan ever.
Today, we needed to bat through day and possibly gets the runs. Soon as wickets fall, he should be in the dressing room telling them calm and steady, ignore the wide bouncers as it's not a desperate run chase.
For me, Prior is done for this series - too many mistakes with gloves and bat. Stokes and Plunkett have done okay as have Broad and Anderson but i can see the former pairing being switched out
Bell needs to get some runs, he may survive into the next test but without a couple of big scores in that then he's done.
Cook will probably survive simply because there's no-one else to lead the team but some radical change needs to happen ASAP.
Suspect KP is quiet enjoying this in a perverse way.
To be honest, I think the biggest problem England have is losing Swann. Fair enough I know we still got dicked in Australia in the games we played but before that he was number one spinner in the world.
Losing Trott (who averaged 50 odd?) doesn't help either.
As said, it may have only been papering over cracks but I don't think it's all Cook's fault.
Give him to the end of the series & if it's still this bad he'll resign. If there was a good Captain candidate to replace him now then maybe, but there isn't
Losing Trott (who averaged 50 odd?) doesn't help either.
As said, it may have only been papering over cracks but I don't think it's all Cook's fault.
Give him to the end of the series & if it's still this bad he'll resign. If there was a good Captain candidate to replace him now then maybe, but there isn't
Downton choking on his sherry ?
He should be the first to go for blatantly backing the wrong horse - followed by Moores and Cook.
Moores is proving every bit as effective as his last stint when KP got the sack for saying he wasn't up to the job
whereas Downton says 'he is the outstanding coach of his generation'. What an omni-shambles !!
He should be the first to go for blatantly backing the wrong horse - followed by Moores and Cook.
Moores is proving every bit as effective as his last stint when KP got the sack for saying he wasn't up to the job
whereas Downton says 'he is the outstanding coach of his generation'. What an omni-shambles !!
Leithen said:
Fishtigua said:
This time last year we were thrashing the Aussies, what's gone wrong in just one year?
You can only paper over cracks for so long.Oh and Australia got their s
t together.Ian bell is out of form badlu too. This is the same Ian Bell who scored three centuries in the home ashes series.
27 innings without a half century for Alastair Cook, never mind a century. Since the start of the 2013 ashes, he's averaged 23, and this year his average is 14.
Liam Pl
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