The Cricket Thread 2014

[Dave Cooper please]

Cook needs to be relieved of the captaincy and dropped.

Yup.
Harsh maybe given his overall record but keeping him on is doing no one any favours.
Tell you what, fuck the fact that we;re in the middle of a series and fuck the fact that he's never captained a side before, I'd give it to Root.

[tomd2103]

Cook needs to be relieved of the captaincy and dropped.

Yup.
Harsh maybe given his overall record but keeping him on is doing no one any favours.
Tell you what, fuck the fact that we;re in the middle of a series and fuck the fact that he's never captained a side before, I'd give it to Root.

It's a decent shout, but he's just finding some good form and I wouldn't want to jeopardise that at this point.  I'd give it to Bell or maybe even Prior on a temporary basis for the rest of the series.  I think the time to look at Root or someone like that would be after the Ashes next summer. 

[Chris Jameson]

Why on earth would you give it to Root? He's captained Yorkshire once, have a look how that turned out.

Edit. Bleary eyed, read what Dave actually said. He has done it once though and that was an unmitigated disaster! Who will the H&V selection panel decided needs dropping? My guess is Root and Ali.

[Chris Smith]

Cook needs to be relieved of the captaincy and dropped.

Yup.
Harsh maybe given his overall record but keeping him on is doing no one any favours.
Tell you what, fuck the fact that we;re in the middle of a series and fuck the fact that he's never captained a side before, I'd give it to Root.

It's only a few months ago that Root was going through a similar run drought. So, conceivably that can happen again and you are scratching round looking for another replacement.

It's a tough one as there are no stand out candidates but if Cook is given a break it needs to be one of the more dependable players.

[OzVilla]

Terrible drop by Cook. Didn't look like he stayed down on the all and then soft hands.

As Test Matches go he's had an absolute shocker.

[Villafirst]

Can Cook get anymore useless? Easy slip catch spilled. Take him off and put the sub fielder on! A complete passenger!

[OzVilla]

Cook needs to be relieved of the captaincy and dropped.

Yup.
Harsh maybe given his overall record but keeping him on is doing no one any favours.
Tell you what, fuck the fact that we;re in the middle of a series and fuck the fact that he's never captained a side before, I'd give it to Root.

It's only a few months ago that Root was going through a similar run drought. So, conceivably that can happen again and you are scratching round looking for another replacement.

It's a tough one as there are no stand out candidates but if Cook is given a break it needs to be one of the more dependable players.

The total lack of candidates, alongside a new coach that Cook must have had a big hand in bringing in will mean Cook will hang on to the Captaincy for the foreseeable future IMO.

This is a long term project and Whittaker, Moyes etc will not be easily spooked. They could point to Australia to show how quickly things can turnaround in Test match cricket. They'd gone 9 Test Matches without a win losing 7 before England rocked upto the Gabba last November.

[PaulWinch again]

That's a bad drop from Cook, but it's been a really good morning from us so far. I'd be inclined to give Anderson one more over, we shouldn't over bowl him.

[PaulWinch again]

Get a third man in Cook, those are pointless runs to leak.

[PaulWinch again]

Don't over bowl them Cook.

[PaulWinch again]

Not a bad start Plunkett!

[paul_e]

Why on earth would you give it to Root? He's captained Yorkshire once, have a look how that turned out.

Edit. Bleary eyed, read what Dave actually said. He has done it once though and that was an unmitigated disaster! Who will the H&V selection panel decided needs dropping? My guess is Root and Ali.

I'll start, Cook needs a few games off for his own good and Plunkett shouldn't be ahead of Jordan.  I also think we need to have a look at a full-time spinner during this summer, who that should be in place of is open for discussion but if they carry on bowling Broad and Anderson like he has then at least one of them will be fucked by the 5th test.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep we can't over bowl Broad and Anderson or we'll run them into the ground.

[Chris Jameson]

Why on earth would you give it to Root? He's captained Yorkshire once, have a look how that turned out.

Edit. Bleary eyed, read what Dave actually said. He has done it once though and that was an unmitigated disaster! Who will the H&V selection panel decided needs dropping? My guess is Root and Ali.

I'll start, Cook needs a few games off for his own good and Plunkett shouldn't be ahead of Jordan.  I also think we need to have a look at a full-time spinner during this summer, who that should be in place of is open for discussion but if they carry on bowling Broad and Anderson like he has then at least one of them will be fucked by the 5th test.

I get the clamour for Cook to be dropped/rested whatever but I don't understand why Root should be made captain? As I said, have a look what happened the one time he lead Yorkshire.

[paul_e]

Oh I agree on that, Bell and Broad are the only options for me.