Re: So would Ponting be dumped as skipper...

by doremi Fri 10 Jul 2009, 03:25

Yeah, I kind of agree. There is simply no better candidate than Ponting at the moment. For the opposition.

by PearlJ Fri 10 Jul 2009, 03:30

I don't think changing captain would help the team.

by Red Fri 10 Jul 2009, 03:39

Regardless of his captaincy, there's no way Punter can be dropped and who's to say Clarke will be any better.

Spanky wasn't too laudatory of his morning session effort in the field.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/cricket/strongpeter-roebuckstrong/2009/07/09/1246732428870.html

by Zat Fri 10 Jul 2009, 04:16

embee wrote:(and as that's 20+ years ago it doesn't really apply to the thinking of the current CA and NSP)

The current NSP thinks?

Red wrote:Regardless of his captaincy, there's no way Punter can be dropped and who's to say Clarke will be any better.

Spanky wasn't too laudatory of his morning session effort in the field.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/cricket/strongpeter-roebuckstrong/2009/07/09/1246732428870.html

Given what happened later in the day, in hindsight, the Drunk's captaincy wasn't as bad as it has been in other matches. There were still vestiges of panic, but in the context of the whole day, criticism early in the day may well have been prematurely harsh.

by Henry Fri 10 Jul 2009, 04:19

Batting isn't captaincy. Batting is batting. The only thing Ponting is good at is batting, and leading by example with the bat. As a tactician in the field he is terrible.

by horace Fri 10 Jul 2009, 04:23

tosh....he continues to produce reasonable reslts from an average team...this is just crazy got to have a spiv running the show talk

by Zat Fri 10 Jul 2009, 04:40

Henry wrote:Batting isn't captaincy. Batting is batting. The only thing Ponting is good at is batting, and leading by example with the bat. As a tactician in the field he is terrible.

The lack of results from Strauss's captaincy suggests that it's a hard deck to captain a fielding team on anyway. Whcih is accentuated by the drunk being thick.

by Henry Fri 10 Jul 2009, 05:10

Strauss is conservative and unimaginative.

by Zat Fri 10 Jul 2009, 05:17

So this series is the bland versus the figuratively blond?

by skully Fri 10 Jul 2009, 05:20

Was there ever any doubt?

by Zat Fri 10 Jul 2009, 05:22

Nah, just trying to get it clear.

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