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***Official*** Sri Lanka in England and Ireland 2014

wpdavid

wpdavid

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Flem274* said:
Send that old random guy who went into the comm box out to skipper
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Henry Blofeld? It's a thought, I suppose.

Obviously Bell doesn't look like captaincy material, but you just don't know. People said the same about Gooch years ago, and we got a couple of decent years out of him. Ditto Vaughan, actually. We really have no idea about the alternatives, whereas we do know a lot about Cook.

That being said, it was hardly Cook's fault that Anderson and Broad, two vastly experienced bowlers, bowled such utter garbage on Days 3 & 4. And they weren't great at the start of Day 1, actually, a fact which is obscured by the 3rd session. Similar story on Day 5 at Lord's, come to think of it.
Nor is it Cook's fault that the fielding's been so rotten.

What goes around comes around, I suppose. If they really did think it was a good idea to piss over the Oval pitch last summer, maybe it's karma that the cricketing gods have been pissing all over them ever since.
 
Spark

Spark

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Not playing shots is great when the pitch is completely flat and there's no assistance from spinners. Not quite so true here, don't think you can just deadbat against Herath.
 
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