Steve Harmison pulls out of Zimbabwe tour

[Langeveldt]

Pulls out


What a commendable decision from the young man, and good of England not to penalize anyone who doesnt go on what is in my opinion a tour as deplorable as the reble tours to South Africa

 

[steds]

Good for Harmy!
Nice to see someone with a conscience

 

[pskov]

Hopefully this wil cause others to pull out or the tour to be cancelled. Well done Harmy !

 

[Langeveldt]

Hopefully this wil cause others to pull out or the tour to be cancelled. Well done Harmy !

I am hoping a lot (and i mean lot) of others follow, to give this piece of rubbish even less credibility than it deserves, and our esteemed global administrators with even more egg on their faces

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Doesn't look like it from the article, but we're allowed to hope...

 

[age_master]

good on him

 

[a massive zebra]

Are you sure he's not just using this as an excuse for laziness?

 

[Langeveldt]

Are you sure he's not just using this as an excuse for lazyness?

If it is, its a commendable and courageous excuse for laziness

 

[a massive zebra]

If it is, its a commendable and courageous excuse for laziness

True

 

[Scaly piscine]

It's not laziness when he announces it over 2 months before the tour actually takes place. The fact that he has announced it this early and is the first to do so at least gives other players plenty of opportunity and time to join him, I hope Flintoff follows suit.

 

[_Ed_]

Well done Mr Harmison.

 

[Rich2001]

Are you sure he's not just using this as an excuse for laziness?

To be fair the guy has earnt a rest he has played in basically every single Test and ODI in the last year or so... why risk getting a injury on a worthless tour before a hard hard year of cricket with SA, Bangladesh and those lovely Australians!

Well Done to Harmy and like others have said I hope a few more of the big names drop out...Except M.Vaughan! the guy will go to Zimbabwe and get into form if he likes it or not

 

[Langeveldt]

I hope Englands entire front line of cricketers pull out, and we go along for a farcical tour where the likes of James Tredwell, Kadeer Ali, Keith Parsons and Chris Schofield pummel the Zims senseless... It would be cruelly fascinating viewing..

 

[Rich2001]

I hope Englands entire front line of cricketers pull out, and we go along for a farcical tour where the likes of James Tredwell, Kadeer Ali, Keith Parsons and Chris Schofield pummel the Zims senseless... It would be cruelly fascinating viewing..

Go Treadwell!, told you that you would play for England

It will actually be quite intresting, as during the World Cup a fair number of the players didn't want to go did they (although they never mentioned names etc).

So surely with the team still holding many of those players still (Tresco, Vaughan, Flintoff, Harmy, Gough, Collingwood etc) a fair more should be pulling out you would think unless they have all had a change of heart.

 

[marc71178]

Wonder if Richard will come on here and say it's a futile gesture?

 

[marc71178]

It will actually be quite intresting, as during the World Cup a fair number of the players didn't want to go did they (although they never mentioned names etc).

According to Alec Stewart's book they had a secret ballot on it.

14-0 was the result of that I believe.

 

[biased indian]

i hope he dont get dropped like MCgill was for not touring Zim

 

[sledger]

in fact if several more players pull out england might actually get a world class one day side consisting of ......

ben hutton
antony mcgrath
rikki clarke
ian blackwell
james foster (wk)
ronny irani
richard jonsohn
chris silverwood
paul sapmpson
jamesormond

world beaters i thinl u will agree.

 

[steds]

in fact if several more players pull out england might actually get a world class one day side consisting of ......

ben hutton
antony mcgrath
rikki clarke
ian blackwell
james foster (wk)
ronny irani
richard jonsohn
chris silverwood
paul sampson
jamesormond

world beaters i thinl u will agree.

where'd Sampson come from?

 

[steds]

don't you mean Phillip Sampson anyway?