Comments on: Paul Collingwood has to go

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:20:31 +0000

None of you have put his fielding and bowling into the scales.

I think he needs a holiday. His fielding form is suffering as well as his batting though his bowling is still great. I think they need to run a bigger squad so people can have breaks without being dropped. It is so bad watching batsmen like Ravi playing carefully and painfully to stay in the team especially when it helps to lose the game. Could they rotate them so that they could also play for their counties more and have time to make improvements? It has done wonders for Cook and also for Harmison. Counties might be better at bringing on young English talent if they could share it with England.

By: matt b

matt b — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:22:59 +0000

Vital innings? He surely played the most important innings of the whole series for England, in that first test. The Ashes would have been over there and then if not for him… and don’t you forget it!

By: Ceci

Ceci — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:24:14 +0000

Pah! load of tosh and snobbish rubbish. I discard the whole boiling lot of you (except Kendal King Pin who is undoubtedly a good egg)

By: Bobby K

Bobby K — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:23:27 +0000

I can’t believe we (well you) are discussing cricket

By: Captain Kirk

Captain Kirk — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:42:16 +0000

Bell is even worse in regard to scoring centuries when it matters least. Maybe Bopara could do the job, but aside from him I’m not sure who the next best candidate is.

For me, Key is a Cook back up, although they’re clearly going down the Denly route, and most other stand outs – Carberry, Suppiah, Horton – are also openers. Shah’s time has gone, rightly or wrongly, and I can’t think of anyone else coming through.

Maybe the answer is 3 openers, especially if Cook plays, KP still at 4 as he’s too scared of 3, and Trott at 5.

By: Benno

Benno — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:19:37 +0000

KC – even by your own yardstick, an average of 42.44 hardly smacks of someone who regularly cashes in on flat wickets.

In this day and age of run-fests, that’s not good enough from a guy who comes in once the shine has gone from the ball. I stand by my original statement, he’s crap; and we must have someone better.

By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:48:20 +0000

95% of the job of an England #5 is rescuing a bad start.

By: Kendal King Pin

Kendal King Pin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:18:50 +0000

It’s hard to disagree with any of these opinions. After all, subjectivity is, inherantly, subjective.

So in the spirit of diplomacy, you’re all wrong. And idiots, to boot.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:12:56 +0000

Scoring hundreds on flat pitches is about 95% of a Test batsman’s job.

Pitches are always flat. Cashing in and making the most of friendly conditions is vital.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:50:04 +0000

i don’t buy all this talk about piggy-back centuries.
a hundred is a hundred, doesn’t matter if the pitch is flat you’ve still got to do it.

collingwood is just one of those players who when he isn’t scoring runs he looks shit, and when he is scoring runs he looks shit.