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As the unravelling of English cricket continues on a global level, the new state of affairs has started to somewhat feel inevitable. The country that invented the game is spiralling downward.
The ECB’s obduracy has hurt the national team the most. The ECB have been reluctant to bring about changes in certain essential areas, the result of which has been annihilation for both the board and the team.
A change is what is required; a change that is going to do a world of good.
The sacking of managing director Paul Downton is a good start to what would possibly be a period of transition. Who could (and should) be the next director of England cricket?
Michael Vaughan, the former England captain and now a TMS commentator, has emerged as one of the favourites for the position. He expressed his interest in as shrill a voice as you would would want, and seems the perfect man for the job, not just for the player he was, but for the mentality that he possesses which would assure England cricket’s dominance in years to come.
One of the reasons for England’s continuous failures in limited overs cricket is the elimination of any room for innovation or dynamism. They have stayed as they were, and the measures to correct the side haven’t worked at all. They never will, given the way the modern game is shaping up.
Vaughan used to be one of the most aggressive captains in the game, and someone who was always forward thinking. That’s what made him the cricketer he was. What the Yorkshireman brings is an encouraging environment, whereby everything is planned to take the team forward.
Innovation will be given pre-eminence, something that Paul Downton never allowed to happen. Vaughan will certainly get the team to be consistent with his ideology – something that will be helped by the wider say he would have in the team’s affairs, especially after Colin Graves’ appointment.
Michael Vaughan always has been an honest evaluator of performances. You may find it on his Twitter feed, or the interviews he gives.
Paul Downton, though, is a contrasting personality. Never in his tenure could Downton make a brave decision based on current performances and we are well aware of the resulting events.
Vaughan is someone who can be gallant and brave, the best example of which is his calls to drop Alastair Cook in the recent summer.
“If you perform, you play; If you don’t, then you’re out” – that’s the ideology that the Tyke has and it isn’t a bad one by any means.
If a team has to succeed, then a few individuals have to be left behind and that can only be done by someone as Vaughan who analyses and reads the game well.
Also, he is one of the rare few in the country who believe in handing over the reins of the national team to the younger players, a trait that makes him all the more special.
Some poor decision making, lack of man management and pathetic handling of the talented players has beleaguered English cricket’s growth in the past two years.
They have kept going down, without any signs of improvement. Now that the time when changes are being made has come, the occasion seems perfect to make Vaughan the captain of the ship.
He is the man who can take English cricket to the top again.
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