Cricket Banter

There's a lot of ex England captains calling for Aussie Jason Gillespie to be named as the next England Manager

It would be a step down if Dizzy took the England job,he already has the best job in cricket.

(10-05-2015 08:22 )Charlemagne Wrote:  There's a lot of ex England captains calling for Aussie Jason Gillespie to be named as the next England Manager

He would be my pick, but it will only work if the english suits give him cart blanche to do what he wants and pick the players he wants!! It is no good just giving him the same bunch of shit, pride less, feeble minded, scared players as Moores had.

We are in a similar situation that the aussies were in before the last home series here. Lehman was given complete power and restored pride, even in losing 4-0 you could tell they were starting to build some good spirit and fight. We need the same.

Peter Moores should never have been appointed in the first place as England coach.
Sacked by another man who should not have been appointed to his current position i.e Andrew Strauss.
Alastair Cook should never have been appointed as England captain either and was helped to be dismissed by yet another man who should never have been appointed i.e Paul Downton.

A whole plethora of incompetent yes men .

Well done to Jimmy Anderson on being the 1st England player to get 400 test wickets..
He's now 9th on the all time list for quick bowlers. 4 wicket behind Curtly Ambrose

Alastair Cook has now overtaken Graham Gooch to become England's leading run scorer in Test Cricket passing the previous record of 8900 runs.

how very refreshing to hear Jason Gillespie on 5 live just now
I love the sheep station remark!!
Just hope he doesn't get too much ribbing from the Yorkshire players about it!!

Trevor Bayliss is on 5 live now....

Just heard the sad news that 27 year old Craig Kieswetter has retired from cricket because of an eye injury

The ball got through the helmet grille & he sustained a broken nose and damage to his eye socket and cheekbone during the match against Northants last July.

Nearly a year after the injury Craig still has problems with his vision and has now decided to retire from the sport.

(05-06-2015 19:36 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Just heard the sad news that 27 year old Craig Kieswetter has retired from cricket because of an eye injury

The ball got through the helmet grille & he sustained a broken nose and damage to his eye socket and cheekbone during the match against Northants last July.

Nearly a year after the injury Craig still has problems with his vision and has now decided to retire from the sport.

he lead the 2 teams out on friday night down at Taunton got a huge standing ovation, was a nice send off for him,
on a happy note the talk down there was he is moving into club cricket as his eyesight is still good enough for the speed of ball at that level

Sorry to see that former England wicket keeper Matt Prior has announced his retire from all forms of cricket