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England batsmen to blame for conceding 240?
The best thing about Alistair Cook captaining England is that the press can use all of their Captain Cook headlines with gay abandon. That’s not to say Cook might not make a good captain some day, but they have been waiting three years to use those headlines.
Anyway, Cook was captain in the 2nd T20 against South Africa, and had the opportunity to feed his bowlers one-by-one like lambs to the slaughter of Smith and Bosman. England had no chance of chasing down a total of 241, yet for some reason it is the batsmen who are being grilled over the defeat.
Micky Arthur, South Africa’s coach, thought Cook should have changed the batting order:
I thought they would certainly have used Eoin Morgan and Jonathan Trott at the top of the order with KP batting three.
Cook had his own, highly intelligent, thoughts on England’s batting:
Unfortunately the big hits, we didn’t hit them as cleanly as they did.
Indeed. But, having managed only 89 against South Africa A in the warmup match, they might be satisfied with 202-6 and 157-8 had their bowling not been so exposed in the 2nd match. Of course, the attack was missing Broad and Swann so they can be given a little leeway.
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Comments (2)
Comment by christopher poshin david
16th November 2009, 1:47 pm
The state of English cricket is truly miserable.
Comment by Cricket Betting Blog
30th November 2009, 11:55 pm
I can’t understand all this big push for Alastair Cook to be captain for the Bangladesh tour or any other for that matter.
After his woeful Ashes series in which his technical problems of getting out lbw to the straight ball were exposed surely the last thing he needs is being groomed as the next captain.
Whats the great rush? Strauss is in no immeadiate danger of laying his bat to rest is he?
Also if his bad form continues you would have to imagine his place in the side would come into question, or am I just stupid to suggest that he might get dropped, after all the selectors haven’t brought any batting cover for the top of the order, sending out the wrong message that your place is guaranteed no matter how bad you are playing.
Just two centuries in the last two years and both against West Indies, is that really good enough?
We could end up in that unfamiliar English position of having a bloke picked just to captain, rather than for his batting. Usually that is reserved for captains that have been there and done it though.
I’m not suggesting Cook is not good enough or finished or anything like that as I think he has a good temperament and good attitude to the game and could be a good test player and maybe captain in the long run. Just that if he is out of form and carries on this way maybe a break from the team and a chance for someone else might be better for England and Alastair.
The England management seem to be getting well ahead of themselves with this one, lets turn him into a top class batsman first and then worry about the captaincy at a later date.