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Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Stuart Broad's Captaincy

I can't have been the only one who was fairly pleased that Stuart Broad's first game in charge of the England Twenty20 side resulted in a thumping defeat can I?

In my view he was an odd choice for the following reasons:
  1. He's very young and English cricket doesn't tend to push young players as much as other nations, although i suppose that this can be seen as a positive that England are trying to groom (that word has different connotations nowadays, but I mean it in the innocent sense) a player in their early twenties to become captain of the whole shebang eventually - that is what they are doing with Alastair Cook after all.
  2. He's been injured for much of the last year.
  3. He's in dreadful form, particularly with his supposed strong suit, the ball.
  4. He's petulant and is often seen shouting at his team-mates for a misfield or whatever, which is not what is expected of a captain.
  5. Paul Collingwood was cast aside as the reigning World Cup holding captain, and I agree that he's playing badly now but it's a little harsh just to ditch him totally.
I think that this is a major gamble for the England management and one that could well come back to bite them on the backside. It's only one game against the World Cup Runners-Up, but leopards don't change their spots and I really can't see a future in Broad's captaincy. I hope I'm wrong, but fear that I'm not.

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