As I naturally have without even looking)
Never heard of it before?!Hahahahaha, that's just plain evil
Agree with the first 3. I would however go further with how cricket was handled by the KCA in 2003. No effort was made to ride the not inconsiderable wave of public interest in the game after Kenya's performance in the World Cup. It was all about how certain individuals could line their own pockets, very nearly causing the collapse of the game in what should have been a boom year.
Something I've thought before... and something I'm sure you might have answered before...
Premature? Think it was if anything a little belated myself, TBH.
TBH, while unsatisfactorily handled, I think Bond would've been gone before long anyway. Certainly he was in any case planning to retire from Tests.
Agreed, but look at the complaints levelled at John Buchanan by many Australians and you'll see that lack of success is not a prerequistite for questionable coaches.
No worse, IMO, than any others really.
Sinclair and Vincent I'll give you, but Marshall??!!
You'd think if you were so concerned you might spell his name properly.
They seem bad, but believe me ours can be horrible too, as I hope I've conveyed in the tour thread.
Pah, fingerspinner. Granted Hitchcock and O'Brien playing ahead of him recently was odd TSTL tho.
Agreed.
Hate to say it, but there are lack of ability issues there to boot.
Jeys, some people make a fuss about anything...
Born and bred, though I am of anglo-saxon(ish) heritage. Mum's family moved to Kenya in late 1800s. I'm 3rd generation born in Kenya. Despite having been eligible for aussie citizenship for the past 3 years or so, I still fiercely retain my Kenya passport despite the difficulties it brings. If you lived anywhere within 5 suburbs, you would hear me yelling at the TV during the Olympics/World Athletics Champs which is the only time I ever get to see Kenyan sport on TV. hope that answers the question
Had at least the WC still in him, why a little more experience in our batting may have helped us get over Sri Lanka in the semi final.
Don't care if he never played for us again due to injury, to abandon him and fall into the BCCI's lap was despicable. The money hungriness for all of this is disgusting, what ever happened to the CRICKET? This man gave us more Test wins than our side has known for years and he looks to take care of himself and we hang him out to dry, I had hoped our board would have been man enough to take a stand. But money talks...
His twins project, his favourite players, his disliked players. That whole psyche crap Astle talked about after his retirement. How is this man still in charge of the team?
Bastards in general.
Hamish Marshall, began as a promising batsman, some to be desired in technique but had enough drive to succeed even at the highest level, probably one of the quickest single runners the games known, and a live wire in the field but.... what do you know, he's out of form.... he's still playing.... still bringing up low scores.... still playing... Let him play some FC or OD for a while? No he must play they say! And what do you know, he's a shadow of his former self and when finally dropped packs his bags and buggers off.
Must have got confused, the speed always left me dazed wondering where my bails went.You'd think if you were so concerned you might spell his name properly.
Media in general is awful but I can't stand the lack of faith in anything we do, Bangladesh beating us was a despicable assumption for the media to make, sure they could have said we may be troubled and if we're not careful they could bring us down, but to make it seem as if a Bangers victory was inevitable was pretty poor.
May as well add his perennial 12th man position in there too.
Yeah I mean come on, how often do we need to prove ourselves in the shorter game before people actually consider us one of the best in the world at it?
Too right but hope for the best.Neither.Sorry, couldn't resist really.
Agree that it was odd to go so soon before the WC TBH, forgot about that, but he just seemed shot to me. Mind, he'd seemed that before. And I will always be glad he and McMillan retired so close together, the side just wouldn't have seemed right with 1 and not t'other.
As I say - the handling by NZC (specifically the misguiding) was poor, no doubts, but the loss of the player I don't think was as significant as some seem to portray. He'd made-up his mind to give-up Tests before even thinking of ICLs, for instance.
I don't know, but as I say - complaints about a coach is commonplace. Heck, Duncan Fletcher, possibly the best thing ever to happen to English cricket, left with most of the cricket fraturnity saying "don't let the door hit you on the way out... or better still, do".
TBH, Marshall's distinctly average record at domestic level convinces me he'd just have done sod-all and disappeared from view had he been put back to domestic level.
As I say - the sort of stuff we've had over here really has been every bit as bad. And of a similar nature, too. If I didn't read so many posts from Kiwis on here I'd assume ours was comfortably worse than anyone else's too.
The irony of it all being Macca ended up replacing Astle in the team, hit great form and proved a master of T20. Both a big loss to NZ cricket, I would have loved to see them both play in a last Test with Fleming, those 3 should have retired together IMO, though in the end the layered retirements probably helped us find suitable replacements easier. Though Astle leaving pre WC was a big blow I feel.
I believe that he was considering it but was hovering either way, he was frustrated at his constant injuries yet still wanted to play, in the end he found the best possible solution to his cause. Yet in the end the team dynamic isn't that badly hurt as the loss of Bond galvanized the others into being better bowlers, particularly Martin who took hold of the spearhead and so far has done well.
Astle sited the coach as one of the main reasons of leaving, thats pretty bad IMO.
We'll never know, personally I loved to watch him play till his form became so poor any twin loving freak would have to realise that Hamish had to be dropped. Reckon if he had been treated better things may have turned out differently.
With what seems like dozens of reports about how badly the English were going to whip us I'm not so sure in this regard, though the media around the world relish to pick at scabs and wounds.
For whom ?????
Well said, though I'd advise you not to go and watch cricket in Australia - sadly we make your boys look positively genteel in comparison.
wouldn't go that far but honestly, 27 is too many..... I would rather 12 or 15 play at the top level and another 6 or 7 at a level below that and that is it....
Me and John, naturally.For whom ?????
Yeah, I'd have liked that too. Whether Astle, especially, could have kept-up the performance levels is another question tho.
Well, Duncan Fletcher at least mostly retained the support of the camp, and Bracewell might be a bit worse than the norm, but as I say - I've never yet seen a set of cricket fans who remain satisfied with a coach for that long. Never. Regardless of any circumstances.
I'd say about 8-12 would be ideal. Or even better, make Duleep Trophy the premier FC competition with a long season, with Ranji being played concurrently which feeds into Duleep. The international players would be scouted and picked from the Duleep teams.
Would expand the Duleep into a similar comp like IPL for FC and 50-over cricket and allows some overseas players who countries don't pay them enough to play in the competition. Reckon it would be awsome.
Spectators? There are like six people in India who give a crap about Ranji Trophy, and five of them are on the selection panel. No one else gives a crap. As for players, they move around a lot these days anyway, so there is no allegiance to your city in any case.
