Ok. Ive been following England in all formats of the game over the year and ofcourse the current world cup.
This tournament has been largely disappointing so far with a big win over 'minnows' afghanistan' followed by heavy loss to india. Today they were pretty much comprehensively beaten.
This is my take on it. Broad is too soft for the captains role. How shall i put it? Too middle-class perhaps. He would be great for the test match format like strauss has proved but in t20 you need someone a bit more streetwise.
That is why 'grafter' Paul Collingwood did so well and won with England last time around. He picked a linup consisting of similar grafters like sidebottom, bresnan and anderson who were excellent. But instead we have the aristocratic-fihure of Finn opening the bowling. As good as a bowler and man he is, we need a bit more bite first over of the innings. Like a steyn or sidebottom who are in batsmens faces.
England ofcourse still have a chance to progress from the super 8's but i dont know if broad is the right man for the job. Hope so anyway for Englands sake.
The problem with England in Twenty20's
posted on 27/9/12
Agree we were all surprised at his reaction. On a bad day maybe but not then.
posted on 27/9/12
guys im not saying middle class people are better than working-class or vice versa. What im saying is that for the twenty20 you need a bit of bite like paul collingwood team of yesteryear.
posted on 27/9/12
The problem with the England team is that they`re all stupid.....
Robotic bowling plans with no scope for individual talent and mongoloid batsmen with less brain cells than I have teeth.....
"I`m an English bowler, I`ll pitch it short at 80 mph"
PFFFFT!
posted on 27/9/12
openers are meant to be agressive in this format. why are batsman so tentative? u have 5 more batsman and just 20 overs. use them as effectively as possible.
posted on 27/9/12
The problem is that our opening batsmen are too aggressive (ie swinging at wild shots to hit it out of the ground- kieswetter, wright) and our bowlers are too tentative like finn and broad who prefer line and length bowling ala like in a test match.
It should be the other way around.
posted on 27/9/12
I dont believe that in twenty20 batsmen have to smash loads of fours. Everyone accepts that scoring 10 runs an over is acceptable. That can be done by hiting two's and singles with the odd boundary.
Thats why i think kieswetter, Wright and bairstow should be replaced by 'proper' batsmen at the top of the order.
posted on 27/9/12
comment by kaseberan (U16072)
posted 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
I dont believe that in twenty20 batsmen have to smash loads of fours. Everyone accepts that scoring 10 runs an over is acceptable. That can be done by hiting two's and singles with the odd boundary.
Thats why i think kieswetter, Wright and bairstow should be replaced by 'proper' batsmen at the top of the order.
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Well said. T20 is not all about throwing your bat after ball. You need regular batsman like Bell. Cook may be too slow. Even Bopara might do better than some folks did today. Look at SA or SL, their top(proper) batsman are the ones scoring. Jayawardane, Sangakara, Ghambir, Hussey, Kholi, Amla are doing well in this format.
Then again does ECB cares/do need to care about this format at all? I don't think they do. Perhaps ECB thinks that England will follow path similar to India if they go all out in T20. They are more concerned about Ashes. Less about T20. Hence they are regulating their test and ODI players playing this format. Which is not bad idea.
posted on 27/9/12
This is T20. Your top 3 batsman need to be class.
Hales I rate.
Kieswetter is a slogger. For T20 if in the sude he should bat 5 or 6.
Wright - Never a number 3.
The solution.
For a start, get KP in there. Take Gayle, Kohli, Amla away from their team and they would suffer too. KP takes the responsibility and attention away from the younger lads.
My other thought. We don't have a proper batsman in that top 4. One who is w classy player and who doesn't just swing it. Goid foit movement and classy player.
My team would be:
Hales
Bell
Pieterson
Bairsto
Morgan
Buttler wk
Swann
Broad c
Finn
Briggs
Dernbach
posted on 28/9/12
Another issue for England is that Swann keeps taking the easy ride. He never bowls in a powerplay and never bowls at the death. All the other leading spinners do both. He is supposed to be a wicket taker so should be bowling when batsman attack him the most but I don't know who decides this but if its Swann then he's bottling it.
posted on 28/9/12
What a weird article.