Cricket

Bumble! I don't know, but there must be other guys around who could do as good or, preferably, a better job (xp)

One who can get Harmison, Monty, Vaughan and Bell firing? (since KP insists they get picked)

^^^those four fuckin' players

Mind you, Moores is right about picking Vaughan

yeah in an "it would be flaming fucking madness to pick Vaughan" way

KP going down a little in my estimation over this, sure he's showing himself to be strong-headed but he also needs to LET GO when it comes to inspirational captain-batsmen who are now without a shred of form

Owais Shah is the real loser in all of this tbh.

LJ wouldn't have picked Brearley

it was different in the 80's, nobody was scoring any runs at all except like javed miandad and allan border

also brearley was some sort of great pulsing cricket brain and a jolly decent sort. he had an education, you know

You may as well pick me as pick Vaughan

(and viv richards, and gordon greenidge)

(and some others)

I'd only play if I was above Bell in the order though. I'd have to insist on that.

also brearley was some sort of great pulsing cricket brain and a jolly decent sort. he had an education, you know

so as long as you go to a proper university you're good enough to play for England?

Not sure that Monty's stupid either- he has a degree from Loughborough, and always seems quite thoughtful to me.

― Neil S,

A degree in computer science. His final mark is unsupplied. Let's face it, his cricketing ability probably had a say in his acceptance, especially at Loughborough. Let's just be glad he's an international cricketer rather than a video-store clerk, eh?

just got offed

Also, playing cricket doesn't mean you know how it works;

― Just got offed,

it's time to get English cricket back to where it shone brightest: as the pastime of the aristocracy

Lord Trueman. The Earl of Gooch. The Bishop of Boycott.

Forget recent triumphs? Who was it who spread the game across our glorious Commonwealth, our Empire? The nobs, that's who.

Bloody underarm poofters

Oh dear oh dear oh dear, but on the other hand, lolz:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7815038.stm

http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/nelson-muntz.gif

Morris did a Gallian on him.

RIP English Cricket, Ashes to be taken away, etc, etc.

Just like you Aussies have been pulling a rope-a-dope with your tactical decision to lose to SA, so Pietersen pursues a wily long-game move to make Andrew Strauss captain just in time to lose to West Indies, allowing his triumphant come-back as captain in time for the Ashes!

Not even Strauss could fuck up a series against the Super Stamford XI West Indies, surely?

We'll see, I actually think Strauss would make a good captain, but the dressing room will now be "in turmoil" as sports hacks like to say.

Odds on Pietersen taking Australian nationality?

Oh, no thanks. He's no Kepler Wessels.

Yeah I would think he'd have even less friends in the Australian dressing room than in the England one!

even fewer!

o

dear.

Strauss will now get the job he should have been awarded when Vaughan stepped down. Ah the joy of hindsight!

jeezo - not how I was expecting this to pan out

The Ashes will still be up for grabs when I pitch up with my day four Oval tickets though, right?

A lot might depend on whether KP is in the team or not.

crazy. If KP is dropped as player then RIP england

Yeah but he would be pretty much unmanageable, no?

he could captain the Allen Stanford SuperBrilliant Golden Ticket Megateam against The Universe, rocket to depart at GMT 13:00 on the 20th of May

Best place for him.

lolz

I'm pretty peeved by this. I'm actually a big KP fan and wanted to see him at least given a crack at the Aussies. I trust we'll return to the same cautious, unexciting cricket that was our 90's trademark.

I'm not a hater and it would be a shame if KP was lost to England, but if I were him would I be thinking continuing England dressing room politics, or a series of $1m paydays with the IPL, Stanford &c &c?

He wouldn't be able to leave England for the neverending moneybags circus now, not after all he's pledged. He'd have no friends remaining in the game.

More pertinently, he can do all that shit anyway and still be an England player

He may have bunt his bridges with England already though.

burnt!

kp resigned it says now. Press conference by the ECB at 6.

My feelings on this are roughly equivalent to Marcello Carlin's feelings on the treatment of Russell Brand

Anyway, now for some quality cover-our-asses BS from everyone's favourite cricket board!

KP says he will still play, but will he get picked?

Fuck "team unity", we want a LEADER

And KP was that leader.

well he resigned

He resigned because he had no choice!

The most important thing is, did Strauss go to the proper school/university that will allow him to be a successful captain that knows how cricket works?

No, he's a Radley/Durham boy. Ugh.