28-12-2021, 05:04
Well this has gone from bad to worse to embarrassing and humiliating.
Changes need to be made, heads need to roll, certain test careers need to be put on indefinite hold, with some players being told just to focus on white ball careers, pointless playing red ball international cricket if you've hardly seen a domestic red ball game for 5 years. I think you know whom I'm referring to.
We can't make wholesale changes at this moment, can possibly call up players that are in the blast which isn't ideal, but I'd say James Vince is more of a test batter than buttler and Lawrence combined and one good innings in test cricket would lead to a purple patch, much like Ian bell needed. Only thing is Ian bell had the likes of cook, Strauss, trott, pietersen and Collingwood. We've got Joe root and pretty much the flower pot men. It's the batting that is letting us down, the bowling in general is fine. Team selection is also failing us but that's a different story.
Going on that story who would replace silverwood? Giles was adamant he wanted an English coach, it's gone as well as Peter Moore's two stints, I mean Giles might not be safe tbh. Would dizzy Gillespie do it? I do doubt it, Tom moody is a white ball coach, Mickey Arthur has just got the Derbyshire gig, probably with the eye on the England job, just not this soon. Mike hesson who did the new Zealand job, he played a big part in their rebuild, much like Andy flower did for us, but I don't see us going back to flower.
As for the captain, everything root has tried has gone wrong, but are there really any options as replacements? Burns is a championship winning captain, but is unselectable for the test side, buttler will be a casualty of this tour, theres already murmurs of foakes taking the gloves in windies onwards. Stokes would be like giving Flintoff off the gig, alright for a one off, but would ruin his game if any longer. So who else is there? Bairstow is in and out more than the hokey cokey, and will probably find himself on the way out once again after this unless he redefines his test batting. Can't see England wanting broad or Anderson even as stop gaps, they tried broad in white ball and it didn't last long. That leaves essentially inexperienced players who are too young or too early into their careers, (Pope may captain England one day) or woakes or malan, I think woakes would or could be a main stay in the side of he stuck to bowling a consistent, boring length ala McGrath and Pollock, 4/5th stump, too full to cut, too short to drive, make them make a mistake. Malan is getting on a bit and seems to be a stop gap for the selectors most the time. That leaves the the options at a county player or one time international player who is out of the reckoning but maybe with some sort of captaincy experience or a complete wild card. The one time international players would be the likes of vince who captains Hampshire, Sam Robson who had a half decent season, but first in God knows how long, not sure if he was or has ever captained or someone like Eoin Morgan who was found badly wanting last time in test cricket
Changes need to be made, heads need to roll, certain test careers need to be put on indefinite hold, with some players being told just to focus on white ball careers, pointless playing red ball international cricket if you've hardly seen a domestic red ball game for 5 years. I think you know whom I'm referring to.
We can't make wholesale changes at this moment, can possibly call up players that are in the blast which isn't ideal, but I'd say James Vince is more of a test batter than buttler and Lawrence combined and one good innings in test cricket would lead to a purple patch, much like Ian bell needed. Only thing is Ian bell had the likes of cook, Strauss, trott, pietersen and Collingwood. We've got Joe root and pretty much the flower pot men. It's the batting that is letting us down, the bowling in general is fine. Team selection is also failing us but that's a different story.
Going on that story who would replace silverwood? Giles was adamant he wanted an English coach, it's gone as well as Peter Moore's two stints, I mean Giles might not be safe tbh. Would dizzy Gillespie do it? I do doubt it, Tom moody is a white ball coach, Mickey Arthur has just got the Derbyshire gig, probably with the eye on the England job, just not this soon. Mike hesson who did the new Zealand job, he played a big part in their rebuild, much like Andy flower did for us, but I don't see us going back to flower.
As for the captain, everything root has tried has gone wrong, but are there really any options as replacements? Burns is a championship winning captain, but is unselectable for the test side, buttler will be a casualty of this tour, theres already murmurs of foakes taking the gloves in windies onwards. Stokes would be like giving Flintoff off the gig, alright for a one off, but would ruin his game if any longer. So who else is there? Bairstow is in and out more than the hokey cokey, and will probably find himself on the way out once again after this unless he redefines his test batting. Can't see England wanting broad or Anderson even as stop gaps, they tried broad in white ball and it didn't last long. That leaves essentially inexperienced players who are too young or too early into their careers, (Pope may captain England one day) or woakes or malan, I think woakes would or could be a main stay in the side of he stuck to bowling a consistent, boring length ala McGrath and Pollock, 4/5th stump, too full to cut, too short to drive, make them make a mistake. Malan is getting on a bit and seems to be a stop gap for the selectors most the time. That leaves the the options at a county player or one time international player who is out of the reckoning but maybe with some sort of captaincy experience or a complete wild card. The one time international players would be the likes of vince who captains Hampshire, Sam Robson who had a half decent season, but first in God knows how long, not sure if he was or has ever captained or someone like Eoin Morgan who was found badly wanting last time in test cricket
Another day, another door, another high, another low