Does anyone else feel like it’s the Nineties?
English Attorney asked:
Totally unpredictable team selection, a batting line-up that’s five-out all-out and a bowling attack that seems to spend its time waiting for the clouds to roll in and which is utterly ineffective otherwise.
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Totally unpredictable team selection, a batting line-up that’s five-out all-out and a bowling attack that seems to spend its time waiting for the clouds to roll in and which is utterly ineffective otherwise.
But it can’t be the Nineties, because the worry lines caused by English cricket of that era are already etched deep into our leathery visage.
Xavier
February 18th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
Matthew
They have to try something, don’t they? Predictable though, is the selection of Vaughan as incompetent captain.
February 21st, 2011 at 7:44 am
Madison
Oh yes I do!!!
Batting collapses, talented players failing consistently, with the odd flash of brilliance, bowlers racking up centuries in runs conceded, an unsettled wicketkeeping position ( the current debate is nothing new), fighting talk from captain and coach who are clearly at loggerheads with each other and the selectors, but trying to maintain a united front in public, huge first innings leads for the opposition after abject first innings performances with bat and ball first time round by England, muddled selection policies….
We really have gone back to the nineties.
February 24th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Isaiah
Yes everyone does. Its has been this way sinc ages.
February 27th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Julian
You may find it hard to believe, but we went through this in Australia a while back! It must have been between the Chappell & the Border days, lol, but i almost gave up on our team back then. Good players will come along eventually(I mean good RELIABLE players) & you will be back in the winners list. Don’t give up!
February 28th, 2011 at 8:37 am
Xavier
Just another typical England sporting embarrassment; bring on the Ashes for more British comedy
March 2nd, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Alexis
Australia went through a similar period a couple of times for a few years (as noted by Binga). If my memory serves me right then one of them was when Bil Lawry and then Kim Hughes were captain.
What is needed IMO is strong management at the very top. Confidence in the current players needs to shown to shown so that are not always looking over their shoulders in fear. Changes to the team should be done is a considered way and not wholesale slaughter. The captain should be assured of some tenure within the team. The coach should be taking a very active role in the team tactics and selection.
All very easy to say but if the press and the public are at your neck, hard to achieve. Unfortunately.
March 4th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Robert
well, honestly, yes, except for a brief period in 2004-05, the english team has appeared to be that way for as long as i can remember
while yes its true that australia had a simliar situation for a few (6-8) years, australia came out of that slump, whereas england seem to be treading water and going nowhere, whats worrying is that they have been doing that for well over 15 years now, what are they able to do to change that situation? personally i dont know, but for their sake someone had better work it out soon!!
March 5th, 2011 at 7:26 am
Carter
Well it certainly didn’t take long for the euphoria over the ashes to dissipate, it would appear that we are back to square one with the bowling, Harmison, Hoggard and Jones it would seem are spent forces, and we are back to relying on Flintoff (dodgy ankle notwithstanding) to bear the brunt. Apart from Anderson , Broad and Sidebottom, when fit, we have resumed selecting pie throwers. As for the batsmen, the talent is there in spades, the application unfortuneatly isn’t.