Arghhh!!!
You make me even more pissed off than SS! At least his arguments are based on fact rather than unnerving bias.
Have you any idea what the **** you're on about??? I'm not biased, but how can anyone deny that KP is a supremley talented batsmen? Vivian Richards admited he is his modern incarnation, and one of the most talented batsmen since himself.
Pietersen (Has got lucky so far with drops, missed edges & umpires. Just because he has an ego, it gets confused with actually being good)
As I have just said, this bloke is literally one of the best players of spin I have ever seen. You can't fluke 2 150+ against the best team in the world, in test cricket. I have heard from so many ex-cricketers that he seriously is the real deal. Anyone with half a brain and that isn't biased will admit that he is a very, very good batsman. I don't really like Glenn McGrath, but I can still freely admit that he is a great bowler, grow up.
Collingwood (Bores bowlers to death, then gets runs. Only has one shot in his locker)
Seriously, have you ever seen him bat. "Only one shot", never heard such a load of bollocks in my life. He scored cover/square drives against McGrath and Lee, great pulls against all bowlers, and cuts against Warne and Clarke. Plus he went down the track plenty of times against Warne, and every single time he did it (bar one), he suceeded.
Bell (Gets beaten all ends up by every ball, but always survives the edge of being bowled by a millimetre)
Fair enough, McGrath made him look foolish last year, but even then, people (like in Pietersen's case) in the know called him one to watch in the future. A test average of 46 for a 23 year old is anything but poor. Dayle Hadlee called him the best 16 year old he's ever seen. Good enough for me thanks.
Harmison (Obvious really isn't it? Was never anything close to #1 in the world, that was a joke)
Clearly he's having a poor series, but pretty much all the test batsmen would say that he is bloody scary to face when he's on song, bowling 95,ph bouncers at your head not pleasant. The PWC rankings
don't lie, perhaps the most accurate way of determining a players current form, without going too far.
Simon Jones (One good series and suddenly he's Malcolm Marshall, bowls lots of bad balls)
I don't know who you've been listening to, but anyone who likened him too Marshall is a fool of all fools. He was all over the Aussies in 2005, and a strike rate of 47 is hardly overated/
Panesar (Decent, but nothing special about him. Not the magician he's being portrayed as)
How on earth is there nothing special about him? Did you see the ball he got Younis Khan out to? Genius, gets the seam straight every single time, and is as an accurate spinner as you'll ever see nowerdays.
