Pietersen may miss Ashes

[simmy]

He'll play... its the Ashes ffs

 

[Richard]

Whether it's The Ashes doesn't make an injury any better or worse. An injury is an injury, and it is unaffected by the magnitude of an upcoming series.

If the injury is bad enough, Pietersen will either a) not play or b) play and be of little use (a la Michael Atherton in 1998/99 for example). Hopefully, it will be sufficiently not-too-bad to be manageable and allow Pietersen to play at somewhere near his best, but that remains to be seen.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Whether it's The Ashes doesn't make an injury any better or worse. An injury is an injury, and it is unaffected by the magnitude of an upcoming series.

Yeah but he's going to be more likely to suck it up and play through the injury if it is a big series like the Ashes.

 

[Smudge]

who cares anyway. baseball is much better than cricket.

Makes me wonder why you'd join up to a cricket forum to make such a post. It's an awful lot of effort just to post what is probably one of the most cliched, tedious, average trolls you'd see related to cricket. Probably best that you **** off and never come back.

 

[GIMH]

If you're gonna sign up to troll you could at least make a thread or something, ffs

 

[sledger]

Guess Voltman will get an official warning for telling someone to **** off.

 

[Smudge]

Just report it and find out, sledger.

 

[sledger]

I really don't care if you do or not tbh, I'm not trying to land you in the dog house, just curious to see if the mods call it "borderline acceptable" when someone other than me says it.

 

[superkingdave]

a bit like a blind lesbian in a fish market tbh

 

[James]

bounty - cut it out please, anymore obvious trolling and you'll face a ban. Very interesting too that you say your location is Texas but you're posting from an England IP address.......

Voltman - please just report posts like this in future rather than having a go. Makes it easier for everyone involved if that happens.

 

[andyc]

bounty - cut it out please, anymore obvious trolling and you'll face a ban. Very interesting too that you say your location is Texas but you're posting from an England IP address.......

Voltman - please just report posts like this in future rather than having a go. Makes it easier for everyone involved if that happens.

Shenanigans!

 

[Richard]

Yeah but he's going to be more likely to suck it up and play through the injury if it is a big series like the Ashes.

That isn't neccessarily a good thing though. Pietersen playing when he'd do best not to play is going to damage, not improve, England's chances.

 

[Jakester1288]

He's gone.

 

[0RI0N]

Ian Bell deserved a call up.Scored runs,2nd division or not.
What odds Bell scoring a hundred in the 3rd test.
Will Bell bat well?

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Best he got the operation now and was fully fit for SA. His form was crap anyway so it wont be as big a loss than it could be. Bell is more than good enough to do well vs this Australian attack imho.