The Cricket Thread 2014

[paul_e]

I'm with the doc on this one, except I'd have the 6 spot listed as Ali/Morgan.

I'm really not convinced by Taylor, he's great at scoring big against poor bowling but I don't think he's ready for international cricket yet.  For me he's an option to replace Bell after the world cup but I just can't see a spot for him before that.

[PaulWinch again]

Of the squad selected my team would be -

Hales
Bell
Taylor
Root
Morgan
Ali
Buttler
Bopara
Stokes
Jordan
Anderson

But if I were picking in general I'd have Vince in for Bell and Broad in for Stokes/Jordan.

[PaulWinch again]

Oh or Finn in place of Jordan if he gets his form fully back.

[peter w]

Well Cook's going to be playing so any team needs to have him in it

Cook
Hales
Root
Ali
Morgan
Bopara
Buttler
Woakes
Tredwell
Jordan
Anderson

[PGW]

Ashley Giles possibly to join Leicestershire...
www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/768701.html

I think anyone may struggle there for a while but if someone were to make a success of that county then i think you could get a job anywhere.

[PGW]

KP's autobiography released next week, 9th October and he is immune to action fron the ECB as basically he doesn't have a contract within
county cricket as Surrey cancelled his.
It should make interesting reading if he can say what he likes as long as it's the truth!!

www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/786701.html

[PGW]

Sorry mix up there

www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/786579.html

[ACVilla]

KP's autobiography released next week, 9th October and he is immune to action fron the ECB as basically he doesn't have a contract within
county cricket as Surrey cancelled his.
It should make interesting reading if he can say what he likes as long as it's the truth!!

www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/786701.html

The Surrey KP link up was a disaster waiting to happen. I can see KP drifting rapidly out of the limelight.

[simon ward 50]

KP's autobiography released next week, 9th October and he is immune to action fron the ECB as basically he doesn't have a contract within
county cricket as Surrey cancelled his.
It should make interesting reading if he can say what he likes as long as it's the truth!!

www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/786701.html

The Surrey KP link up was a disaster waiting to happen. I can see KP drifting rapidly out of the limelight.

No doubt his publicist Piers Morgan will try and keep his name out there!

[paul_e]

KP will become a T20 mercenary and will make a fortune from it.  He might not get the massive press in the UK but he'll still get a lot of coverage.

[PGW]

One or two tasters from his book

www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/787621.html

www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/787623.html

[paul_e]

Nothing massively surprising there for me, there has clearly been a clique who call the shots and given how poorly he performed for a year before being dropped Prior was clearly a key part of that, that Prior played again after the ashes tour said everything for me.

[aev]

On the Big Cheese...

"He is dominating the place, and has taken to referring to himself as the Big Cheese (or, informally, Cheese). As in, the Big Cheese is pleased with how he played today. The Big Cheese has earned some beer tonight. Cheese went out last night. Cheese went to bat today. Who does that? I don’t know how he got the name, but he’d started using it a lot..."

[Chris Jameson]

I accidentally clicked on to a link that took me to the Mail website but whoever the journalist was had a list of questions for Pietersen as he wouldn't conduct any one to one interviews, amongst them was why every single side he ever played in he subsequently left under a cloud having fallen out with several people? I think it's because he's a massive twat, just a guess but any mate of Morgan's has got to be a rather large one.

[paul_e]

KP clearly thinks a lot of himself and, by all accounts, he's very much willing to hold other players to the same standards and tell them if he doesn't think they're doing enough.  A player like that will always upset people, the question is, and should be, does he individually and as a presence in the side make you a better or worse side, in general very few people can honestly say the latter is the case.  It's why there were a lot of bad things said about Keane when he left Man U as well.