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    Flintoff’s looking mean

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

    Utterly exhausted, and am unable to offer anything remotely intelligible at this hour of useless o’clock. However, I can tell you one thing: Andrew Flintoff is looking in mean health. David Graveney said Australia fear him and, seeing him at The Oval today, it’s hard to disagree.

    I’m going to stop writing now as I’m reaching previously unknown heights of banality. Thoughts on today’s squad announcements? Leave ‘em below.

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    9 Responses to “Flintoff’s looking mean”

  • shandy wrote:
    September 13th, 2006 at 2.51 am

    Player A Bowling:
    M B R W BBI ave
    First-class 40 6233 3917 123 6/7 31.84

    Player B Bowling:
    M B R W BBI ave
    First-class 61 10028 5601 214 6/44 26.17

    Who would you pick? Oh and bear in mind player A has a stress fracture in his back, is ridiculously injury prone, and wont have bowled a ball since the India tour. Player B is fit and bowling very well having recovered from a hamstring injury. Only the English selectors could waste a precious spot in a 16 man squad with this much stupidity and award it to player A. Am fuming. When fit and in the groove, anderson deserves his spot, but not until then. Chris Tremlett, hang in there, you will have your chance when england’s selectors are made to look like asses when half our attack is declared unfit before a ball is bowled.

  • shandy wrote:
    September 13th, 2006 at 3.28 am

    oops sorry - 2 errors… this was meant to be posted in the ashes squad feedback section… and is have pasted plunketts figures instead of andersons… underlying point still stands though! a fit, in form player has been passed over by 2 unfit bowlers!

  • Bill Cluff wrote:
    September 13th, 2006 at 7.10 am

    Simon Jones must currently be very depressed - because clearly being injured does not rule you out of being picked for this Ashes squad - which means that he must have been dropped…

  • Bill Cluff wrote:
    September 13th, 2006 at 7.19 am

    I agree with Shandy above. After all, don’t forget that Tremlett was picked for the squad to tour Pakistan but got injured and had to have surgery. He got himself fit for the English summer. He didn’t play in the early part of the season but having regained full fitness for Hampshire he has taken 34 wickets at 24.5 in nine championship matches and 6 wickets at 12.8 in three pro-40 games..

    So Graveny isn’t just sticking with what he knows - he has, plainly and simply, made a mistake. If he insists on picking an injured Anderson, who hasn’t played a first class match all summer, then why go for another injured player like Plunkett. Especially when he is not the next best player available.

    I don’t understand.

  • japaddy wrote:
    September 13th, 2006 at 11.07 am

    I fully agree with the above posts, i’m also scratching my head about the captaincy, which would seem to be the result of an ill-advised pact made way to early in the piece.
    What sort of squad has 4 bowlers on the injury list?

    Do England think they are good enough to beat Australia with a handicap?

  • Harrowdrive wrote:
    September 13th, 2006 at 12.23 pm

    I can see why the selectors have done this. Thae arguement goes that an Ashes series is not the place to blood new talent. Hence no Tremlett (or others lacking experience). I’m inclined to agree with this. After all, talented as Tremlett is, experience counts for a great deal in international cricket. Look how long it took Flintoff to settle at the highest level.

  • Justcoz wrote:
    September 13th, 2006 at 8.34 pm

    Simon Jones has been told not to play cricket until next season in England by his specialist in the USA. He must have royally screwed his knee…

    Hopefully he can see a path to a return. England miss him.

  • Bill Cluff wrote:
    September 14th, 2006 at 3.37 am

    Harrowdrive - don’t forget that Kevin Pietersen’s first series of test cricket was against Australia in last Summer’s ashes and he didn’t do too badly in that - he top was the highest run scorer of the series!

  • Kathy wrote:
    September 15th, 2006 at 2.14 am

    FLintoff’s appointment is such a mistake. The Aussies may fear him as a player but they certainly don’t fear him as a captain. Hence Ponting’s puzzlement at his appointment. What England need is what they had last year — brains harnessing brawn. Now they have brawn leading from the front, on a dicky ankle.

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