Cheerio World Cup
Well, what can you say after a dismal, embarrassing defeat such as the one England suffered yesterday at the hands of South Africa? The answer to that I’m not sure to be honest. We won’t be in the semi-finals, but then we never even looked close to deserving to be there. In the last FOUR world cups, we have beaten one, just ONE, major country - yet blind optimism helps us fans through normally.
All that has gone, after the debacle of the defeat in Australia on Australia Day when the game was over within a couple of hours, and now the pathetic showing in the world cup. What to do though is now the question. And to be honest, I agree with much of what Aggers says on the BBC blog. We need a new one day captain, one that can command a position in the team other than as specialist captain. Send Vaughan back to Yorkshire to put in some big time in the middle, as he clearly can’t put an innings together at the moment. And I hope it happens before the test series against the West Indies, as I’d like him to lead from the front as captain in that series.
Fletcher has done some good stuff, but I’m sick of hearing from him, and Vaughan to the same extent, saying how everything is alright. It clearly isn’t, no matter how much you say you’ll learn and come back stronger etc etc. I don’t know who the answer is as coach, whether its someone from the county circuit, or whether you could entice someone such as Tom Moody from the Sri Lanka position. Its not for me to decide, I just want something done, otherwise it looks like we are tolerating failure, and we’ve had enough of that…
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