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It's a shame that Prior hasn't been able to find a role within anyone's setup. He was incredibly incredibly vocal about the issues at Sussex a couple of years back and was ultimately proved right. Wonder if he's someone that's seen as too opinionated.Rothko said:Great Tailenders this week, Sir Jimmy and Matt Prior going to absoulte town on how England played, Jamie Smith getting torn to pieces by Prior is a hell of a listen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0mt2g8v1 -
I don't know. This is not a Nathan Jones situation.billysboots said:Who would you replace Key and Baz with ?Bearing in mind the best coaches are on an absolute packet from the Franchises.
There would be plenty who would want it imo
How about Vaughn and Lehmann?0 -
Spoke a hell of a lot of sense on both the drinking culture and the level of practice recently.MarcusH26 said:
It's a shame that Prior hasn't been able to find a role within anyone's setup. He was incredibly incredibly vocal about the issues at Sussex a couple of years back and was ultimately proved right. Wonder if he's someone that's seen as too opinionated.Rothko said:Great Tailenders this week, Sir Jimmy and Matt Prior going to absoulte town on how England played, Jamie Smith getting torn to pieces by Prior is a hell of a listen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0mt2g8v
Haven't listened to Tailenders yet but will do, cheers for the heads up Rothko.1 -
If there is one thing that summed up the England management's attitude to preparation for going into battle it is the fielding.
England dropped 17 catches in the series. McCullum got rid of the fielding coach in 2024. He said at the end of the Ashes “We don’t have a fielding coach, it wasn’t for the lack of trying. Unfortunately, there’s lots of franchise cricket on at the moment and franchises pay a lot more.”
This is the biggest load of bullshit I have read. Unlike a fast bowling coach who needs an ongoing relationship with their charges, there is nothing individual about fielding or even keeping that a competent coach could not have provided. It is all about repetition and getting players in the right frame of mind to the extent that they are proactive and not reactive to what is going on.
Here's the thing though. As much as a fielding coach is desirable, especially from the perspective of keeping, it really isn't a necessity especially when one considers that they did actually have two people in their group who have kept on the international stage. They go by the names of McCullum and Trescothick.
So, yes England should have had a fielding coach with them to "share the burden" but fielding drills are something that any competent coach can provide. The issue was never that. It was more that this regime did not recognise the importance of actually devoting more time to doing that. Any more than they did in playing more warm-up games. Or they do in making their players turn out more for their counties.
There is always an excuse for doing less. In case that gets in the way of the golf and the drinking. The fact that the England and the ECB covered that up (Brook was fined £30,000 for the bouncer incident) and that they are now proposing to re-introduce the midnight curfew that McCullum got rid of when he took charge says it all.
Once the cricket becomes secondary, the team will achieve exactly that. Come second. Or, in the case, of the England Test side, come seventh which is exactly where they are, with just Bangladesh and West Indies below them in the World Test Championships. We don't prepare to fail.........3 -
Luke Wood and Jamie Overton, two members of our provisional T20 World Cup squad, are playing today for the Adelaide Strikers against the Perth Scorchers. Their combined bowlers figures today were 6-0-88-0
Overton has bowled well overall in the competition previously but, following a good start, Wood's form is becoming more of a concern - his combined figures for his last four appearances are 14-0-156-20
