Cricket
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 11:38 am
Couldn't find another general cricket thread so...
Thought other people might like to contribute in finding the right words to describe just how unbelievably incompetent England's selectors are. They treat Onions like complete crap despite being the best seam bowler (dropped twice already whilst 35 average bowlers continue bowling tripe), then they pick what has to be the most boneheaded squads for Bangladesh you have ever seen. Bar none. Borrowing from my own post on another forum:
They spend all these series grooming Rashid, giving him experience, they pick him in a shortened format so he learns to bowl flat rubbish and potentially ruining him as a Test player, then the golden opportunity arises to play him in Test cricket AND THEY PICK A 28YO PLODDER WITH A **** RECORD.
They have the perfect opportunity to have a look at some short to medium term seam options with his arch ordinariness (Anderson) being rested - the seam bowling was clearly not a strong area in England's side but there are other options knocking around who might improve the situation. So the one guy who has completely dominated FC cricket and on England A type tours (Mark Davies) is magically left out in favour of some random Yorkshire player (Shahzad) who's shown nothing exceptional whatsoever.
Plunkett a completely horrible limited overs bowler with a completely horrible record last season in particular is again in the ODI squad.
Prior a proven completely atrocious ODI player, who does nothing for England's balance, is in the ODI squad with no other keeper in there. There a wealth of other options who would do a lot for England's balance.
Denly a player who is obviously more suited to longer format cricket is in the ODI squad and not in the Test squad.
Sidebottom someone who has not looked the same bowler since 18 months ago, is 32, needs to show he has that edge back before he's worth considering again. He is in *both* squads in a very low priority tour.
Thought other people might like to contribute in finding the right words to describe just how unbelievably incompetent England's selectors are. They treat Onions like complete crap despite being the best seam bowler (dropped twice already whilst 35 average bowlers continue bowling tripe), then they pick what has to be the most boneheaded squads for Bangladesh you have ever seen. Bar none. Borrowing from my own post on another forum:
They spend all these series grooming Rashid, giving him experience, they pick him in a shortened format so he learns to bowl flat rubbish and potentially ruining him as a Test player, then the golden opportunity arises to play him in Test cricket AND THEY PICK A 28YO PLODDER WITH A **** RECORD.
They have the perfect opportunity to have a look at some short to medium term seam options with his arch ordinariness (Anderson) being rested - the seam bowling was clearly not a strong area in England's side but there are other options knocking around who might improve the situation. So the one guy who has completely dominated FC cricket and on England A type tours (Mark Davies) is magically left out in favour of some random Yorkshire player (Shahzad) who's shown nothing exceptional whatsoever.
Plunkett a completely horrible limited overs bowler with a completely horrible record last season in particular is again in the ODI squad.
Prior a proven completely atrocious ODI player, who does nothing for England's balance, is in the ODI squad with no other keeper in there. There a wealth of other options who would do a lot for England's balance.
Denly a player who is obviously more suited to longer format cricket is in the ODI squad and not in the Test squad.
Sidebottom someone who has not looked the same bowler since 18 months ago, is 32, needs to show he has that edge back before he's worth considering again. He is in *both* squads in a very low priority tour.