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So I've read that M Vaughan and P Collingwood have quit as Captains of their respective sides.
It doesn't mention they've retired from those forms of cricket.
Is that the case? Or is there another article out there?

Is K Pietersen a shoe in?

MarblePark wrote:So I've read that M Vaughan and P Collingwood have quit as Captains of their respective sides.
It doesn't mention they've retired from those forms of cricket.
Is that the case? Or is there another article out there?

Is K Pietersen a shoe in?

Yeah this is a Huge story in the UK. it looks like that Vaughan was pushed to resign by the ECB and was not going to get picked for the next test so called it quits.
he hasent retired yet but has ruled him self out of the next test. will be interesting if he is there in 12 months for the ashes. His form has be very average but he is one of the Most Technically sound batsmen you will ever see. cant forget that innings at Adelaide oval.

As for Collingwood he said the captaincy was to much pressure and his batting was suffering.
and the fact that he captained the T20 world cup where england were discraceful. and captain of two losing series against New zealand and The windies. you wouldnt want that on your CV. and he has to serve a 4 game ban for slow over rate

and kevin Pietersen will be named captain of the Test and one day captain on monday. lets se how he goes i wonder if he will be as attacking with his captaincy as batting

the joker wrote:

MarblePark wrote:So I've read that M Vaughan and P Collingwood have quit as Captains of their respective sides.
It doesn't mention they've retired from those forms of cricket.
Is that the case? Or is there another article out there?

Is K Pietersen a shoe in?

Yeah this is a Huge story in the UK. it looks like that Vaughan was pushed to resign by the ECB and was not going to get picked for the next test so called it quits.
he hasent retired yet but has ruled him self out of the next test. will be interesting if he is there in 12 months for the ashes. His form has be very average but he is one of the Most Technically sound batsmen you will ever see. cant forget that innings at Adelaide oval.

As for Collingwood he said the captaincy was to much pressure and his batting was suffering.
and the fact that he captained the T20 world cup where england were discraceful. and captain of two losing series against New zealand and The windies. you wouldnt want that on your CV. and he has to serve a 4 game ban for slow over rate

and kevin Pietersen will be named captain of the Test and one day captain on monday. lets se how he goes i wonder if he will be as attacking with his captaincy as batting

yeah will be very interesting to see how he handles it- i think if strauss was in better form i mayhave given him the test captaincy but kp is definitely the star performer in recent times- i just hope it doesnt effect his performances like flintoff's when he was given the captaincy

MAY-Z wrote:

the joker wrote:

MarblePark wrote:So I've read that M Vaughan and P Collingwood have quit as Captains of their respective sides.
It doesn't mention they've retired from those forms of cricket.
Is that the case? Or is there another article out there?

Is K Pietersen a shoe in?

Yeah this is a Huge story in the UK. it looks like that Vaughan was pushed to resign by the ECB and was not going to get picked for the next test so called it quits.
he hasent retired yet but has ruled him self out of the next test. will be interesting if he is there in 12 months for the ashes. His form has be very average but he is one of the Most Technically sound batsmen you will ever see. cant forget that innings at Adelaide oval.

As for Collingwood he said the captaincy was to much pressure and his batting was suffering.
and the fact that he captained the T20 world cup where england were discraceful. and captain of two losing series against New zealand and The windies. you wouldnt want that on your CV. and he has to serve a 4 game ban for slow over rate

and kevin Pietersen will be named captain of the Test and one day captain on monday. lets se how he goes i wonder if he will be as attacking with his captaincy as batting

yeah will be very interesting to see how he handles it- i think if strauss was in better form i mayhave given him the test captaincy but kp is definitely the star performer in recent times- i just hope it doesnt effect his performances like flintoff's when he was given the captaincy

Im not sure KP is the man. True he is a good player, but remember the 2nd dig of the 2nd test?

A true captain would have put the team first batted conservativly and hung around all day and fought it out to the end.

In my opinion, he is not the man england are looking for. Who is the man **** knows!.

Thought I'd let you guys know...they just named Pieterson as captian

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/default.stm

Regards
JAS

How many non-English captains have they had now? Was Nasser actually a pom?

Pietersen - skipper by elimination
Why on earth is Pietersen going to be the new skipper?
Why this recent English obsession with always making the best player the skipper... this makes no sense.
If you want a good skipper you have to pick a good skipper. It's as much a specialist part of the side as a wicketkeeper and even more so now these selectors don't have a clue what they are doing.
It didn't work for Flintoff and he is much more a team-player than Pietersen.
Pietersen has far too much on his plate in terms of converting large scores into very large ones and now we are going to give him the skipper's job when he has minimal experience.
And the far more worrying thing is that he is effectively skipper by process of elimination... no other player aside from Flintoff is a shoe-in for his place in the team and we've already given Freddie the job.... now what does that say about our test team?

KP should set attacking field placings as thats the way he plays

KEVIN PIETERSON

MUST be the skipper
And then he can make a surefire decision to benefit the team
Dont bowl himself....