Comments on: Why English cricket continues to fail

By: Colin N

Colin N — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:15:21 +0000

“Last 2 Ashes”

In ENGLAND, which is what he said.

By: Roger Rational

Roger Rational — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:28:55 +0000

I’m sure that’s what Ricky Ponting tells himself every night (right after he’s finished headbutting the wall) …

By: davido

davido — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:08:19 +0000

Last 2 Ashes…. Australia 6 England 2

By: Colin N

Colin N — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:23:57 +0000

“The England team is now harder to get out of than it is to get into. The English selectors have, amazingly enough, actually learnt something from the truncated careers of the likes of Hick and Ramprakash.”

Yes, correct.and that has been a problem at times. It’s about finding a balance, which England seemed to get in the summer and hopefully they can continue that.

By: M1tch

M1tch — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:41:16 +0000

Hmm..they have won last 2 ashes series in England…

By: Roger Rational

Roger Rational — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:41:19 +0000

Freud, you’re writing like it’s 1999. Everything you say was true of England in the 80s and 90s, but it is no longer true. The England team is now harder to get out of than it is to get into. The English selectors have, amazingly enough, actually learnt something from the truncated careers of the likes of Hick and Ramprakash, and now give fellows (well, batsmen anyway) a fair crack of the whip. Hence Cook and Collingwood and even Ian Bell have each received about nine lives when their predcessors would have been lucky to receive three (and those three would have been spaced at two-yearly intervals!)

The real panic merchants nowadays are the Australian selectors.

By: davido

davido — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:32:16 +0000

It is more what you do with the talent you have rather than the talent you have.