Strauss a gonner!

[baburao]

He will come back.

 

[manee]

And so we see the departure of yet another Ashes 2005 hero. I think come the first Test against Sri Lanka we'll only have Pietersen, Hoggard, Vaughan and Bell left.

Read the sig. All joy comes at a price, for many, it was runs of poor form and injuries after the joy of the 2005 Ashes.

'Tis a bleak philosophy but one which often comes true.

 

[ivanvdm15]

I feel bad for Strauss i mean also look at Graeme Smith it took him about 2 years to score another test century and he remains captain and opener .

 

[Highlander999]

I think they should have stuck with Strauss. The problem with England is they drop a player as he goes through a bad spell, instead of offering support to them. We should have: Cook, Strauss, Vaughan, KP, Collingwood, Bell, Prior, Swann, Hoggard, Harmison and Monty/Anderson.

 

[Sureshot]

I feel bad for Strauss i mean also look at Graeme Smith it took him about 2 years to score another test century and he remains captain and opener .

Smith had nothing like as many technical flaws as Strauss.

At the moment they are:

Hooks and Pulls are going up in the air rather than along the ground.
Edging to keeper/slip with any full straight ball.
Falling over himself to Left Armers.
Poor against spin.

 

[Vcassano]

Smith had nothing like as many technical flaws as Strauss.

At the moment they are:

Hooks and Pulls are going up in the air rather than along the ground.
Edging to keeper/slip with any full straight ball.
Falling over himself to Left Armers.
Poor against spin.

Exactly. Also am I alone in thinking he can't recover from this? His response was pretty petulant and worrying - blaming it on bad decisions more than his own inabilities. Also his technique is such that a disciplined bowling attack can starve him of runs quite easily - no width and he is severely limited or pitch it short enough that he can't get forward with his poor front foot movement and not short enough to pull.

 

[manee]

His response was pretty petulant and worrying - blaming it on bad decisions more than his own inabilities.

Have you even read the whole interview? He states after (or during) that sentence that the run of poor form was his fault.

 

[.Mob]

Door opens for Trescothick in my opinion, he has been in sublime form.

 

[angryangy]

Smith had nothing like as many technical flaws as Strauss.

At the moment they are:

Hooks and Pulls are going up in the air rather than along the ground.
Edging to keeper/slip with any full straight ball.
Falling over himself to Left Armers.
Poor against spin.

Aside from the first one, which he's probably always done and several quite decent players are are least a little guilty of, they are typical of any form slump. When one is underconfident, they struggle to commit to decisions; this is true for much of life. Enough hesitation will make you late to play the straight ball. Your feet are like lead and you will fail to read spin early.

Of course, a confidence boost would help, but you'd want him to improve beyond the root of the problem. If he became nervy because as Vcassano said, opponents had learned to starve him, then he clearly needs to address that issue. Knowing this might have made him uneasy in the first place.

 

[ivanvdm15]

Smith had nothing like as many technical flaws as Strauss.

At the moment they are:

Hooks and Pulls are going up in the air rather than along the ground.
Edging to keeper/slip with any full straight ball.
Falling over himself to Left Armers.
Poor against spin.

That's true but I still feel they should have worked on his mistakes and given him another chance to prove himself and allow him to get in good form.

 

[manee]

Door opens for Trescothick in my opinion, he has been in sublime form.

As much as the selectors will deny it, he will walk into the team whenever he is seen to be in a fit mental state. In Pro-40, his consistancy for hitting run a ball 40s or 50s was unrivaled and he must have averaged around 40 in FC cricket too which is also good considering he excels further at test cricket.

Smith had nothing like as many technical flaws as Strauss.

At the moment they are:

Hooks and Pulls are going up in the air rather than along the ground.
Edging to keeper/slip with any full straight ball.
Falling over himself to Left Armers.
Poor against spin.

Don't forget the straight drive going to point when he doesn't edge it.

 

[evertonfan]

Read the sig. All joy comes at a price, for many, it was runs of poor form and injuries after the joy of the 2005 Ashes.

'Tis a bleak philosophy but one which often comes true.

I'd just like to clarify that i'm not saying that the loss of all our Ashes 2005 squad is a completely bad thing.

The injuries have produced is with better Test cricketers;

Cook
Panesar
Anderson
Sidebottom
Prior
Collingwood

That's near enough half a squad.

Door opens for Trescothick in my opinion, he has been in sublime form.

The door's been open for ages, he just won't go through it.

 

[Highlander999]

Yeah Trescothick and Cook would really work, but he has to sort his mind out first

 

[manee]

I'd just like to clarify that i'm not saying that the loss of all our Ashes 2005 squad is a completely bad thing.

The injuries have produced is with better Test cricketers;

Cook
Panesar
Anderson
Sidebottom
Prior
Collingwood

I meant a price for the cricketers themselves.

 

[Sureshot]

That's true but I still feel they should have worked on his mistakes and given him another chance to prove himself and allow him to get in good form.

He had 12 months! That's just about the most time our team can give one individual to find form. It's not as though he's irreplaceable, Vaughan to open and Shah or Bopara comes in, we aren't losing anything imo.