open365
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This.
It makes me think a whole lot less of him, both for his reaction, and the astonishing lack of sense to post his reaction on twitter.
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KP dropped ; vents anger on twitter
- Thread starter Sir Alex
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It makes me think a whole lot less of him, both for his reaction, and the astonishing lack of sense to post his reaction on twitter.
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What a sack of tripe.
Also, I'm assuming Piers would be willing to cover the £10m black hole that cancelling the ODI and T20 series would create in our budget? Otherwise it's going to end up coming from one place, and that's the grass roots.
PhoenixFire
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Everyone knows Piers Morgan is a stupid piece of ****, I'm not sure why it would come to a surprise to anyone if he wrote a ******** piece in the worst newspaper going.
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Hey, I buy the Guardian 
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Add Ponting, Hayden, McGrath and Warne to that list, tbh. Every top Aussie player has been dropped at some stage, FFS.
Sir Alex
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McGrath was dropped? Interested to know (should be very earliy in his career, like Tendulkar)
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1994/95 Ashes series no less. Was a bit up-and-down against SA and Pakistan the season prior, was told he needed to develop an outswinger to be a Test bowler. Got bashed around the 'Gabba by an England side which lost heavily, was dropped until the 5th Test in Perth, took a small bag but looked a far better bowler when he just concentrated on hitting the deck, 1995 WI series followed and, well, the rest is history.
McG's biggest strength was probably that he learnt awfully fast. He picked up fairly quickly that the advice of others isn't necessarily the best, sometimes you've just got to stick to what you know you can do well. 'Rules of thumb' are, most of the time, just a guide. As it happened, he just developed a good outswinger in his own time.
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Sir Alex
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Thanks, just like I guessed.
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But were any of these besides Warne dropped once they were considered amongst the best players of the team?
I remember Warne being dropped in favour of Mcgill and Haydos during the 90's when he was crap and Ponting when he was trying to establish himself.
Cheers for refreshing my memory !
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Yeah it's a good point you make and perhaps that doesn't apply to all of the ones mentioned. But I reckon it definitely does to blokes like Mick Slater as well as Martyn and going back further, Taylor and Dean Jones.
Still, as far as treatment goes, KP's last ODI 50 was almost two years ago. Unless a bloke is a top team man contributing in other ways, no team could afford to carry a player like that. Just looks like he needs a spell, some of his decision-making of late has been.....bizarre.
EDIT: Inb4 someone mentions Healy (don't kid yourselves, his batting had gone).
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Ben Goldacre writes for the Guardian!Hey, I buy the Guardian
PhoenixFire
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****ing love that man.