http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvwi/content/current/story/296429.html Interesting...although I think KP might be too wrapped up in his own batting (like Boycott and Lara) to be a good captain but we are running out of options...Strauss off form, Freddie doubtful (and still in the doghouse?). Personally I would pick PC before KP as captain but I think the selectors will keep Vaughan after his Test hunderd (and they'll use his form in the last dead WC match as defence) although that would be a BIG mistake as I agree with thorpe we need change...but what do other people think?
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Thorpe backs Pietersen as ODI captain
- Thread starter Poker Boy
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pasag
RTDAS
Certainly a rather romantic notion and it would definitely be quite interesting but my opinion is similar to what I said when discussing the Pakistan captain, you just don't do anything that will jepordise the form of your best player (by a mile as well). He could always turn out like Ponting though, you never know.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
For starters I think Lara being wrapped-up in his own batting making him a poor captain became a load of nonsense. In his third stint, at the very least, he did a good job.
Boycott, meanwhile, doesn't seem to be held in too low a regard at Yorks, suggesting (along with his First-Class batting average of almost 58) that he didn't do too bad a job of combining the two.
As regards Pietersen... who knows. Right now it's unlikely to matter much, as Vaughan will almost certainly be retained in the immediate future... ODI average of 25 or whatever it is and all...
Boycott, meanwhile, doesn't seem to be held in too low a regard at Yorks, suggesting (along with his First-Class batting average of almost 58) that he didn't do too bad a job of combining the two.
As regards Pietersen... who knows. Right now it's unlikely to matter much, as Vaughan will almost certainly be retained in the immediate future... ODI average of 25 or whatever it is and all...
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
England do - all the time. And often the captaincy gets blamed (sometimes incorrectly) for jeopardising it.
pasag
RTDAS
Yeah, just to clarify my point though, when you have such a good player, you should go to any lengths to protect him and to ensure everything around him is perfect so he can go out there and continue to score and do what he does well. I think this applies in England more than anywhere else as well with the, at times, brutal media there.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Just a shame Superman can't be with us when he can, though.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Kidding, right?
pasag
RTDAS
You think it's equally important or more?
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
There's every bit as much tactics involved in the shorter game as the longer, and it all moves one hell of a lot faster, too.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Once again, CW exposed for a gross mix-up in scallies/chavs
Someone all in adidas would be a scally but not if they are wearing it for sports. As a sportsman, KP can wear whatever he wants and get away with it, unless he starts hanging round by the shops across the street from me, asking me for a light and to go and get him a bottle of white lightning, and lambrini for his pregnant missus.
Someone all in adidas would be a scally but not if they are wearing it for sports. As a sportsman, KP can wear whatever he wants and get away with it, unless he starts hanging round by the shops across the street from me, asking me for a light and to go and get him a bottle of white lightning, and lambrini for his pregnant missus.
pasag
RTDAS
Haha, all I know about Chavs is from CW. Never heard of it anywhere else and I have quite a few pom mates as well.
pasag
RTDAS
Would be an interesting idea for a thread, tbh.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
These days all you have to do to be labelled a chav is swear and have an ASBO. In my day, chavs were football hooligans who were to be feared.
Dasa
International Vice-Captain
Haha, originally read that as "porn mates".
