I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again in the future, but following England is never dull!

At first when the news came out of the camp about KP and Moores not quite seeing eye to eye, most of the talk was backing up KP, saying that Michael Vaughan and Paul Collingwood also didn’t have the best of relationships with Moores and that he wasn’t respected by the players enough. Then the commentary shifted after news that the ECB were hardening their stance towards KP as well, and that they weren’t going to cave in to all of his demands, whatever they may be.

After that we then have the shenanigans of Wednesday, with the “did he quit the captaincy in the morning or not”, and the announcement at the end of the day that Moores had been sacked and KP resigned as captain, but only in the afternoon. It all seems a bit farcical, and the Aussies are having a field day with it all (much better to talk about us than their pathetic team obviously!) – but today the papers, websites etc have gone full circle and are now making KP enemy number 1, and for what reason I’m not sure. Yes, it seems he pushed too hard and asked too much of the ECB, but he must have seen the chance to make a real difference as captain, and who’s to blame him for that? Sounds more like he needed someone he respected to quietly take him to one side and bring him back down to earth but keep him on board, not a basically forced resignation.

When KP was made captain he was almost the default choice, the only one secure of his place in all the sides (aside from maybe Freddie, whose fitness was still, and probably will always remain a small doubt), and by making Strauss captain for the WIndies tour they’ve chosen someone not even in the ODI squad! I’m not against Strauss as a captain at all – I think he is a damn fine one – but it was less than a year ago he had only just got back in the team due to poor form, and as I’ve just said, he isn’t currently in the ODI side (although he could do just as good a job as Ian Bell has at the top of the order in that form of the game).

Coach wise, the ECB now have a new hunt on their hands – I don’t know if Andy Flower can step up to the plate from being batting coach but I’d be happy if he did, and by probably taking on the job for the WIndies tour will be a good interview for getting the job full time. Otherwise, the first chance a new coach will have to get used to the team and implement some new practices is a short home series against the WIndies before the Ashes series! Not a perfect solution by any means.

But what of KP though – how does he handle such a high profile loss of the captaincy after only a few months? As often with KP, no-one will know the answer to that than himself. He is professional enough to go out there and do the job, but you’ll always have a nagging doubt under the surface that it wouldn’t take much for him to say “sod it” and run off and chase the Indian Twenty20 money.

All we can hope is that it doesn’t disrupt our performances from here on – we need a good series home and away against the West Indies so we go into the Ashes in good form and with players settled and knowing what is expected of them!