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.

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?

Atherton??First he can brush his teeth before he gets taken seriously.Is that anti-English??Sounds anti-Atherton & anti-unhygeinic to me.I’m OK with Botham,Hussain & Bumble.Now, how am I anti-english??
You are a moron & of that there can’t be any doubt.

“Mihir Bose put it right on the BBC website, saying that KP told the ECB that he wouldn’t play under Moores. The ECB told KP that they valued his opinion but wouldn’t take orders from him.”
Thats exactly the point I made my touchy friend.Just coz you agree with him at the same point of time doesn’t mean you’re taking orders from him.If I were the guy in charge of hiring/firing the coach I’d have fired him.Not coz KP ‘ordered’ me around but coz I was also of the same opinion.If your board guys genuinely believed that your ex-coach should stay on than they could have communicated that to the captain saying”Sorry man,we think he’s OK & should stay”.Or the other point of view where he gets the axe which I have explained.
Your board guys come up with a ‘fantastic’ solution of axing the only bright spot apart from highly overworked,eccentric Flintoff’s bowling-Pietersen’s captaincy & his batting as a captain.Must be demoralising for him when some egoistic jokers tell him no we won’t value your opinion.
Very recently,MS Dhoni I believe told the selectors,”You make me captain & never listen to me.If you don’t want to listen to me than don’t make me captain” when they wanted to axe RP Singh.Situation was handled in a much better way.Like me,those guys saw just 2 options-stick to your decision if you’re really sure about it or listen to your captain & give him the guy he wants even if you want some1 else.They stuck to their decision & RP was axed & wasn’t considered in the next selection meeting that happened for ODI’s & also was excluded from India’s test squad.

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!

The majority of your comments smack of an anti-English nature and are quite insulting. Making childish references about Mike Atherton and saying that we are all ‘buffoons’ aren’t going to gain you any credibility.

KP isn’t neccessarily right and surely the team would have been better off had he not made such a big fuss and just played under Moores without making grand ultimatums to get attention and power.

Mihir Bose put it right on the BBC website, saying that KP told th ECB that he wouldn’t play under Moores. The ECB told KP that they valued his opinion but wouldn’t take orders from him.

KP’s ego has once again been his downfall. Fact.

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.

Sweep the cupboard clean – do what SA did and pick young players for 2 years and put up with the results!

Where is Rob Key when you need him – captain, batsman, solid head on wise (if slightly large) shoulders.

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.

I think what KP lacks in subtlety and politic he makes up for in cojones; sadly it appears to have been his downfall.

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

Strauss will be an adequate captain, the question is will KP still fit into the team, be part of the senior management, and put this behind him, or will he find that he’s burned one too many bridges?

Regardless of whether KP continues to play, England have enough quality to compete for the Ashes but only if this is resolved in the caribbean.

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.

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.