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    Andrew Strauss in line for captaincy

    By Will 2 years ago, mid-June Leave a comment on this post

    As soon as he hit a hundred on his debut in 2004, Andrew Strauss was talked of as a future England captain. Since then, despite a recent minor-blip in form, many have spoken that he should have taken over from Michael Vaughan when he missed England’s tour of India and not Andrew Flintoff.

    Following England’s defeat in the final Test against Sri Lanka, Flintoff’s “follow me, lads” style of captaincy has received criticism from Mike Atherton, among others, and it’s noteworthy that Strauss has been chosen. This surely represents the first signal that it is he, rather than Flintoff, that Duncan Fletcher and co. want to lead England in the post-Vaughan era (which could come sooner than we think).

    England face Ireland tomorrow for the first time, at Stormont, before a Twenty20 against Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl on Thursday ahead of the first one-dayer at Lord’s on Saturday.

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    One Response to “Andrew Strauss in line for captaincy”

  • Kathy wrote:
    June 13th, 2006 at 6.56 am

    “the post-Vaughan era (which could come sooner than we think)”

    I hate the thought of this, but was made even more anxious about it after reading Mark Nicholas’s piece in the Telegraph today, rather plaintively headined “We just want our captain back.” Amen.

    He claims Vaughan is something of a drama queen, when I thought it was more Mark Nicholas that fitted that description! But he was there to watch Vaughan play the other day and says rather worrying things about seeing the knee in action.

    Sounds like Vaughan is as desperate to be back in the hot seat as we are to have him there, but I have awful visions of him breaking down again in the Pakistan series and the Ashes being a screaming mess. Nicholas suspects Vaughan secretly wishes he had done as Boycott said he should have — gone to the top knifeman in the US back in December, and he’d be all fixed by now.

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