Thorpe backs Pietersen as ODI captain

[Richard]

Add one more - something in the way the text is displayed, I guess.

 

[aussie]

I think it could work once he doesn't put too much pressure on himself. As Ponting was asked during the Ashes if he feels the pressure of being captain when he goes out to bat, he said no he just goes out thinking he is #3 batsman that has to score runs, but he did also have a superb team to lead. Blokes like Lara & Tendulkar had very inconsistent sides & given how fanatical their nations are about cricket the results really did affect their batting.

England ODI team has been poor but they do have the players that can make a good ODI team & maybe KP could be the perfect leader, he does have that aggressive nature about him & thats the kind of leader the ODI side needs IMO, since a conservative leader like Collingwood won't help the psyche of the ODI side since a conservative approach is what has got the ODI side struggling for so long.

 

[Richard]

England ODI team has been poor but they do have the players that can make a good ODI team

Like?

 

[Ash_A55]

Collingwood for skipper IMO

 

[_GB_]

a conservative leader like Collingwood

I'm interested, why do you think Collingwood is a conservative leader?

 

[marc71178]

Haha, originally read that as "porn mates".

At least I'm not the only one who misread it - quite unfortunate really...

 

[I Lust Cricket]

you just don't do anything that will jepordise the form of your best player (by a mile as well).

Which he isn't.

 

[aussie]

Like?

Do i really have to list them..

I'm interested, why do you think Collingwood is a conservative leader?

England's ODI team need a skipper similar to Ponting IMO, a man who can lead from the bat with his aggressive batting approach thus ispiring the rest of the team to follow a similarly. Collingwood is an established ODI player but i don't think he would be the right man to lead the side, its would be KP or a rejuvenated Trescothick.

 

[Richard]

Do i really have to list them..

Well I'll list what I reckon, of those who've played ODIs recently and are likely to again in the near future...

Pietersen

That's it.

 

[Perm]

As long as they get rid of Michael Vaughan I'll be happy.

 

[_Ed_]

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.

According to a friend of mine who's from the UK but lives here, chavs are what we describe as bogans.

From the descriptions on CW that doesn't seem to be the case to me though.

 

[Langeveldt]

Chavs are unique to the UK and possibly Western Europe.. Pietersen does not fit the criteria of chav, although he is trying very hard.. Its interesting to see how he's changed since moving there..

I'd love to see England implode further as an ODI side under Pietersen's ego.. Great player, dire person.. To be honest haven't their been reports about him being disliked by people other than me? In the England camp?

 

[GIMH]

I don't see how he is trying hard to fit the criteria of chav tbh...though as I said earlier my definition seems to differ to yours

 

[Langeveldt]

I don't see how he is trying hard to fit the criteria of chav tbh...though as I said earlier my definition seems to differ to yours

The shaved head, the bling, the british accent.. Okay he's not yer ****in street corner chav, but its a spectrum, and one that he's moved along towards the Chav end for quite a while now.. We have fewer football hooligans in the UK now, but more chavs.. I guess it depends on your definition though..

 

[Perm]

According to a friend of mine who's from the UK but lives here, chavs are what we describe as bogans.

From the descriptions on CW that doesn't seem to be the case to me though.

Similar in some respects, vastly different in others.

 

[Langeveldt]

www.chavscum.co.uk

 

[Richard]

To be honest haven't their been reports about him being disliked by people other than me? In the England camp?

Yep. Journos like making-up stuff to talk about, especially when England are being thrashed hollow. Makes it easier to get around the truth of "beaten by the better team".

 

[aussie]

Does this make KP a chav? And if so, would he be England's first chav captain if chosen?

Not quite, pretty good for a white chav. He would have to throw on a blue yankee fitted, G-Unit/Jordan sneaks, throwbacks and he'll be good to go.