by Aidan11 » Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:37 pm
When KP was first being touted to play for England I admit I was worried.
Tales of dressing room disruption at Notts were legendary and it appeared KP was a bit of a loose cannon. However he also had talent. Those 3 consecutive ODI tons at the start of his England career made me think that maybe the baggage would be worth it.
He has one of the best test batting records of all time for England. Sadly the papers are always looking for a bad boy and there are plenty of stories rightly or wrongly linking him to various periods of unrest in the England camp. Moores, Strauss and Flower all left their posts prematurely. Was this all down to KP? Maybe. Maybe not. Textgate however was plain stupid.
Well England have got what they want. Having already lost several players during the winter - Swann wont be back, Prior and Trott may not be either - this was what we didn't need.
My first thought was "What if the new Test coach wanted him?" However I'm guessing the ECB already want Giles and Mr Wheelie Bin appears not to want him.
I'm suddenly losing my appetite for international cricket. Who would have thought the massive drubbing in Oz could not be the worst thing to happen to English cricket this winter?.
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