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If they give it to Broad then someone will have to be given the job of telling him that he's bowling too short.
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totally hamstrung by rubbish batting for 2 years, COVID and everything that goes with it and bowlers than can’t go 2 tests in a row.
plus test batsman of the year.
no wonder he wanted to stay, poor bloke must just be thinking “I’m not going to resign when everyone in the team and the management aren5 up to my standards”
I think they told him to resign rather than be sacked because of the grief that the media would have given them
Rather than going by wins, go by the wins per Test captained ratio (Tests captained/Tests won).
Root: 63/27 = 2.33
Cook: 59/24 = 2.45
Strauss:50/24 = 2.08
Vaughan: 51/26 = 1.96
The records of Vaughan, Strauss, Cook, and Root: Tests captained, wins, losses, draws:
Vaughan and Strauss both had more draws than defeats. This trend slid under Cook and nosedived under Root. A good side doesn't just get the wins: it staves off defeat as well.
You get it sponsored by a brand of crisps, you get an Aussie to coach it, and then give away free tickets for games held during the summer holidays...
Definitely. Will be interesting seeing how he goes in the next round of CC games after his opening partner's astounding start to the season.
Said opening partner made 89 to add to his previous scores. How long until he is being talked about for England?
"Rejected more times than he cares to remember, Compton has certainly been making up for lost time. Burns, MD of London County Cricket Club, where he offers mentorship in business and sport, feels the county system is at fault.
"I told Ben he had to work very hard because the way the system is designed it is a closed shop," Burns told ESPNcricinfo. "It is designed to recognise top talent at a young age - the next Joe Root, the next Ian Bell. But you don't need to find that player - they are a class apart. The real test of a system is whether it helps a player who is not outstanding at a young age to make the cut.
"What happens is because lots of money and time, not to say careers, is invested in that academy process, it becomes very exclusive. I'm not saying it is consciously exclusive, but late developers find it harder to break in. Players outside the system get disregarded."
A system rooted in academy progression is precisely what it is. After getting the giggles about Simon Heffer's pathetic piece in the Telegraph discussing woke Wisden, I checked over the recent Somerset 2nd XI game against Middlesex. The educational background of those Somerset players: red dot = privately educated, M = Millfield.
https://i.imgur.com/a1zSaOA.png
Restrictive pathways et al.
Sibley 74 runs in 3 innings
Crawley 95 runs in 4 innings
Burns 113 runs in 5 innings
= 282 runs across 12 innings
Cook 247 runs in 6 innings
Compton 464 runs in 5 innings
Alex Lees has had one innings, 182* at Cardiff.
Way too soon to talk about international, despite his name and great start. This is a guy who couldn’t get a county gig before he joined Kent
not encouraged to play. I live in a leafy Cheshire small town which has a high school with a large open playing/sports field.
There is even an all weather cricket pitch, It's never used, the schoolkids occasionally mince around in the summer playing mixed sex rounders in a supervised games period and that's it. They seem to play no competitive sport at all. Never seen a cricket bat or ball out there ever. If that school was in Australia India or South Africa the kids would be out there all day playing. If it wasn't for independent schools I don't think we'd produce any players period unfortunately.,
In areas where the game isn't played, that is quite true. You can't find talent if there is no talent on display. But that's not what the restrictive pathways is about. Take the Gloucestershire 2nd XI versus Warwickshire 2nd XI game today. Red dots for privately educated, green dots for non-privately, other blobs = no idea.
https://i.imgur.com/vGvHsWr.png
https://i.imgur.com/WKtaJBa.png
Across the three sides I've researched in this thread, that's 33 players in total. 3 unknown educations, 8 non-private educations, and 22 privately educated players. Now your leafy bit of Cheshire might have a small talent puddle: I don't think the same is true for Bristol or Birmingham.
It's a bit different up North. Durham's 2nd XI game recently:
https://i.imgur.com/v2YtU4I.png
I'm not calling for independent schools to stop what they are doing. I'm calling for the scouting network to be improved and expanded. Neil Burns called it absolutely right.
That automatically made it a little harder for players over 26.
Andrew Wu had an excellent piece in the SMH five months ago discussing these very issues:
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/young-talent-crime-where-is-australia-s-generation-next-20211104-p5963a.html
"Chappell points to India as the world benchmark for developing players. Fielding what many derided as a second XI, India toppled a full-strength Australia last summer because, Chappell said, their next tier of players had been hardened by numerous games in different conditions.
“Historically, Australia has been one of the best at developing young players and keeping them in the system, but I think that’s changed,” Chappell wrote in his recent book Not Out.
“I’m seeing a bunch of young players with great potential who are in limbo. That’s unacceptable. We cannot afford to lose one player.
“India have got their act together and that’s largely because Rahul Dravid has picked our brains, seen what we’re doing and replicated it in India with their much larger base.
“I think we’ve already lost our position as the best at identifying talent and bringing it through. I think England are doing it better than us now, and India are doing it better than us also.”
Waugh says there is plenty of talent coming through but wonders whether the pathway system is helping players build the mental resilience for top-level cricket and if it has taken the fun out of the game for youngsters. The former captain has a more intimate knowledge of the system than most, having watched his son Austin come through it and step away from the game.
His point about resilience was shared by several insiders spoken to by this masthead.
“How do you cope when there will be down times? When you’re young and in these systems it’s very positive, everyone thinks they will make it, but the reality is it’s quite tough to make it,” Waugh told the Herald and The Age. “Maybe manage those expectations a bit.
“I’d like to see more fun, more kids develop their natural skills and not be training four or five days a week when they’re 14 to 16. The pathway system is good, but it’s not the be all and end all. Let’s not get them to grow up too quickly.”
Chappell is wrong about England bringing through talent as we've discussed on this thread many times and his notion of scrapping state-based first class cricket and replacing it with Big Bash franchises is utterly stupid, but he is right about India taking the lead.
Unsurprisingly Stokes appointed captain, simply because we have no other options
The Botham and Flintoff records as captain:
12 games: 0 victories, 4 defeats, 8 draws.
11 games: 2 victories, 7 defeats, 2 draws.
Considering the calendar over the next two years in Test and short form and T100 arenas and the shitty state of English cricket at the minute, then Stokes maintaining his on-field performance level and captaining England successfully would be a bigger miracle than anything seen at Headingley in 2019.
I don't have the answer, but back of my mind appointing a 'potential new comer' aka Graeme Smith might have been worth looking at