English Cricket-KP for Captain!

English Cricket What can you say! We played below par and won in the summer and even worse in Australia and were slaughtered. Trott has been a key player for several years now but why did they not deal with his problem sooner. Fans wondered why his form suddenly went and now we know, so it was bad management selecting him for the winter series. Compton was not given a good run compared with others and none of his replacements have done as well. Cook’s individual performance as Captain has suffered when he is under pressure and if the openers are regularly failing to do their job there is little chance of the run scorers at 4, 5 and 6 being able to perform to par. Even Swann quit on tour so he must have gone to Australia knowing that he was at or close to the end. In a few words a lot of ‘bad management here’! In any other sport both the Captain and Manager would have resigned and the fact that they haven’t indicates to many fans that English cricket is still run by the ‘old buggers from a distant era. IPL is another example. Here the top players in the world compete and our players are excluded from being eligible for the full tournament. How can we compete effectively in the one day formats if our old and young players are not getting this competitive experience. Is it because it is run by Indians and not Englishmen and our ‘old buggers’ miss read the appeal of T/20!-T/20 is not cricket!!! Like it or not there is only one player with the cricket brain to be Captain. Yes, KP and from all reports the young guns at Surrey and in the England camp get on well with him. But he would have to be Captain of all three formats and English Cricket would have to allow all of our players the time to play IPL.