Please add some value in your blog. Everyone can read the news….tell us what you think will happen next and whether it should happen or not….
Sorry for being so negative….

A sorry state of affairs for English cricket.
As I have stated before, Moores should have stayed- if the players have their way we’ll return to the days of Illy, Bumble, Micky Stewart et al. Ex players who are ill equipped with the complexities and disciplines required in today’s fast moving modern game.
It is widely recognised that the likes of Illy et al wasted a generation of talent at their disposal in the likes of Devon Malcolm, Chris Lewis, Hick and Ramprakash.
Moores, needed time to quell the ghost of Fletcher and Vaughan and assert his own personility on the team. His record has been indifferent but I feel it will have improved and felt that England were in a strong position to win back the Ashes- albeit against a weakened Australia.
KP and his advisers including Beefy have behaved in a selfish, arrogant and stubborn manner. I think KP is a great batter- and capable of scoring 30 centuries and 10000 test runs, however he has always been a very selfish person. In my view in the end, he will turn his back on the England set up in favour of the IPL circus just like his fellow countryman Tony Greig did 30 or so years ago.
So they are likely to return to Struass- who I feel should have been given the job ahead of Freddie, the problem with this appointment is that Struass’s batting has been found out by bowlers who bowl full and straight and he is not in the One day or 20/20 side.
Robert Key has been discussed as potential candidate- he is not an international class of player in any of the 3 forms of the game. His captaincy may be fine for Kent CCC but not for Team England. I am sure that his style of captaincy will appeal more to the likes of Freddie- who will no douibt be encouraged to repeat the infamous pedalo incident of the last world cup.

In terms of coach, they may turn to Ashley Giles- this would be a mistake as I’m sure it will open the door again for Vaughan Gilo’s long time buddy and golfing partner.

Ford of Kent is my candidate, otherwise John Wright, Tom Moody and Dav Whatmore are the list of candidates who could slot in easily. It would be too far fetched to entice John Buchanan- only because his style is not dis-similar to that of Moores.

It would be ironic if Strauss captained England to win the Ashes after being rejected as captain for the last Ashes and then nearly losing his place as a batsman.

At this point, though, I’d hesitate to recommend as captain anyone who was involved with the 2005 Ashes win, as that event seems to have created some sort of cultural or psychological rift. Maybe they should find a Kolpak captain who has never met anyone on the team.

I really felt that KP had a lot of what England needed in a captain: ballsy, indomitable, and a hell of a batsman.

But I guess in the end he was just too much of a cock.

i think england r doing australia a favour if australia r a weak team than england r weaker

Dear Santa, thank you so much. I did want a bike but the resignation of a prat and the sacking of the coach. Just add Warne as interim advisor and I promise to be a good boy in 2009.

RE Puneet:

If you’re not going to make constructive comments then don’t bother. ‘Add value to the blog?’ If you crave opinion so much watch Jeremy Kyle.

I for one enjoyed the piece, and I’m a keen advocate of the old guard. Pieterson was never right for the job, nor was Peter Moores.

My choice for captain? Alan Mullally. And while you’re at it bring back Croft, Gough, Ealham, Tudor and Caddick.

England have never won a world cricket event like the 50-50 or 20-20 WC or ICC Champions trophy.
You might never ever do it if you continue to act like buffoons.
KP is the best thing that’s happened to your cricket for some time now & it’s not about egos here.To me it’s clear that the England Board guys axed KP coz they didn’t want to be seen as cowing down to his demands.
Thats a very poor way to go about things.You can never please everyone.Surest form of failure is to try & please everyone coz you end up pleasing none.

Why does Pakstan & to a lesser extent India get gems such as Waqar Younus & Mahendra Dhoni even Munaf Patel from nowhere??COz some1 there has the freaking balls to say ,”Right,this kids talented.He’s not necessarily a product of the system but lets pick him anyway”.
Younus was a net bowler,Inzy was spotted playing for a club,Munaf was playing on dustbowl grounds(yes grounds not wickets-No grass grounds) when he was recommended to Ranji Teams & Dhoni was picked for India ‘A’ from Jharkhand which is known more for its jungles.
You guys have a fantastic structure with oodles of money in domestic cricket & yet your secretaries don’t have the balls to say “KP’s right.Moores is yellow like Atherton’s teeth & he should go.That doesn’t make us look small.Even if it does lets take one for the team.”
You aren’t kneeling to him,just agreeing with him.
Aussies have a lot more guts & common sense than you too.
All things said,England did invent & popularise the game.No1 wants to see you become another WestIndies.As much as it pains me saying this but I hope you do better & your team doesn’t slide further than #6 in tests.

Does seem as though KP did much wrong to me. He took his complaint about Moores through the proper channels (Morris - who just happens to be a close personal friend of the ex coach…) and then Giles Clarke.

So far so good - but then reports of the meeting with Clarke were leaked.

I’m starting to sniff an ECB stitch up here - especially since ’senior ECB spokesmen’ were quoted in the paper this morning saying that KP wanted to get rid of Flower too.

Well run companies tend to restrict what their employees can say to the press when there’s an internal crisis - but then we know the ECB is pretty dysfunctional at the best of times.

Wonder how they’ll contrive to cock up the appointment of a new coach - because you know they will!

RE: Sam
Atherton is quite wierd and could do with some teeth-whiteners.Why are you sticking up for him?
This is an English Blog but also a part-time anti-Indian one too.We don’t whine like you.
Please wake up to the fact that your team is the worst ODI team in the world alongwith the windies and is slowly but surely getting there in tests as well.
Mihir Bose is Bengali.Never listen to a bengali.They’re crazy.LOL.

Since you like facts let me give you one.Allan Lamb has played more cricket than any bengali bose hasn’t he?
He says Engish cricket’s become the laughing stock of the world.
SO who shall it be then Bengali completely crazy bose or Allan slightly crazy Lamb?

RE: The Balti Brigade -

You’re constant ribbing of Atherton is laughable. If you want to mess around and annoy everyone join the Indian cricket team.

Zaheer Khan is a drug addict. Discuss that one you mugs.

Sunny Singh’s comments regarding Mihir Bose only re-inforce my opinion of him and of his ilk as mentioned in my post in 2broad shoulders”- There is no risposte to his calling me mother theresa in the broad shoulders post- but I think Sunny Singh has been outed for the Alf garnett he is