OK. This blogger has something to say.
- I did not agree with the sacking of Kevin Pietersen
- I think Paul Downton is an abject disaster in his role at the ECB
- I think the press did not do their job properly in the wake of the KP sacking, preferring personal prejudice over professional ethics
- The big three stitch-up is a disaster for the game
- Alastair Cook’s return to form is not guaranteed. There are slumps, and then there are slumps that last the best part of two years. Don’t be fooled by any runs in the West Indies
- KP’s book, in hindsight, did him no favours. That isn’t to say that it didn’t have important things to say.
- The current coach of England is a typical England appointment. Nice man, company man, safe man.
That’s the first principles of this blog. I won’t be able to recapture past glories rapidly, but I’ll be here, writing away, to my hearts content, even if none of you listen.
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Yeh I can go with all of that. ECB need to be sent packing. Downton needs to go back to his former career and bugger that up rather than continuing to bugger up England Cricket. Oh and he can take those dipsticks who call themselves “selectors!” As for Moores’ well he is made in the image of Flower. We need a world class man. Should have taken on Kirsten when they had a sniff of a chance. But Downton and Clarke had already made the proverbial pig’s ear and got rid of KP. It was, if the Daily Mirror report is correct, a deal breaker for Kirsten; Kirsten never denied it! KP made his life even more difficult due to the book. Bridges burned and all that. Unbelievable stuff. I won’t hold my breath that the ECB will be altered dramatically because it is a “boys” club of the upper classes. Just wonder what the deal was between the new geezer and Clarke? Must confess the new bloke is hardly cut from the Downton cloth but who knows, he might surprise us all.
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That book was a disaster though, wasn’t it? It just confirmed Them in all their prejudices about the guy, and how they were better shot of him. Did David Walsh tone it up? Take the money and leave the shitstorm behind? Or was it the lifestyle equivalent of “that’s how I bat”? Either way it gave succour to the forces of cricketing conservatism, and strength to their vitriol (and maybe even contributed to our host here needing to “regenerate”).
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