fredfertang
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If he wanted to do something useful he could go and qualify for Zimbabwe - in fact he might find that he has a good deal in common with Robert Mugabe
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KP - SA Test Cricketer?
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Bit harsh,sure Mugabe isn't that bad.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
So if we go by this thread,
KP was going down in form, will be older, is a **** of a team player, isn't playing FC cricket right now and every thing else we saw in that KP saga thread. We will soon find the reasoning that he will not be able to find a place in the side even if he fits the criterias. A bit of race aspect has been thrown in as well. Far easier to accept the truth that he was ditched unfairly and is a rockstar.
KP was going down in form, will be older, is a **** of a team player, isn't playing FC cricket right now and every thing else we saw in that KP saga thread. We will soon find the reasoning that he will not be able to find a place in the side even if he fits the criterias. A bit of race aspect has been thrown in as well. Far easier to accept the truth that he was ditched unfairly and is a rockstar.
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Going to argue any of that stuff is actually untrue, or are you just going to Piers Morganly fellate the bloke?So if we go by this thread,
KP was going down in form, will be older, is a **** of a team player, isn't playing FC cricket right now and every thing else we saw in that KP saga thread. We will soon find the reasoning that he will not be able to find a place in the side even if he fits the criterias. A bit of race aspect has been thrown in as well.Far easier to accept the truth that he was ditched unfairly and is a rockstar.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Can argue on each of those points.
1. KP going down in form would be relevant if his reflexes were slowing as well. Form fluctuates through a career.
2. If he seriously thinks of playing test cricket, he would play FC cricket as well before, so the FC cricket point isn't that relevant.
3. He would find a place if he is good enough, which goes for any class player, though obviously it would be tough. Same goes for the race aspect.
4. He was a ****, but so was the management.
1. KP going down in form would be relevant if his reflexes were slowing as well. Form fluctuates through a career.
2. If he seriously thinks of playing test cricket, he would play FC cricket as well before, so the FC cricket point isn't that relevant.
3. He would find a place if he is good enough, which goes for any class player, though obviously it would be tough. Same goes for the race aspect.
4. He was a ****, but so was the management.
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
1. Umm, don't reflexes kinda get worse when you get older. He's going to be a lot older if he plays.
2. It is rather relevant if he has only played a few matches in years, do you really disrespect cricket so much that you think anyone would just regain it, no matter how talented he was at the highest level too.
3. Again as mentioned it would throw open an entire quagmire of political crap which is mainly because of his own statements about the quota. His own statements again being the problem, bloke can't keep his mouth shut, in the all-important "proving I was right and badly treated by everyone" stakes.
4. Our management was **** at the end, but should be considered godly beforehand to keep him in the side for 10 years, considering his habit of slating team-mates as he has done with Lyth, Vince, Taylor and Cook since being rightfully binned. Mind you all that is verbiage as you admit he's a ****..
As I say I'd love it to happen. Others can't really appreciate what an utter divisive **** he is unless he's actually involved in your team.
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Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
1. They do get worse. However, players are fitter now than every before and players have had careers with runs in 37-40 bracket in recent past.
2. I respect first class cricket and it's not going to be easy, yes. It won't be impossible either if 'he still got it'.
3. Yeah, his statements about the quota and the dynamics because of it would be interesting. However, I don't mind that as it's good to have more debate on the quota issue for SA cricket in general.
4. I look at it the other way. He was in the team for 10 years, so it's not like he was impossible to play with as a team mate. Else he would be binned much earlier like a Kambli.
I think he loves the game and I would be glad to see him in the team he wanted to play when growing up and see him batting again in a test match setting. Miss his batting.
2. I respect first class cricket and it's not going to be easy, yes. It won't be impossible either if 'he still got it'.
3. Yeah, his statements about the quota and the dynamics because of it would be interesting. However, I don't mind that as it's good to have more debate on the quota issue for SA cricket in general.
4. I look at it the other way. He was in the team for 10 years, so it's not like he was impossible to play with as a team mate. Else he would be binned much earlier like a Kambli.
I think he loves the game and I would be glad to see him in the team he wanted to play when growing up and see him batting again in a test match setting. Miss his batting.
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
In the end none of your points negate the points that were made in this thread, it's all "if he's still got it" well the odds are he wouldn't have. Oh and yeah debates about quotas are just what Saffie cricket needs, not enough of them. Fitness and reflexes not sure they go together, but hey.
How the **** you get he loves the game is beyond me, only one love in KP's life, but you think he's a "rockstar" so I guess I shouldn't argue with a fanboy, your not alone. Yet this idea is madness and as said before pure attention-seeking.
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Meh, I'll rubbish your posts all I like, if I find them rubbish, I think your points are asinine and quite frankly without any logical back-up to believe a guy at his age can take such a massive break and come back and play at the highest level is insane, it's just another way to keep this most tiresome of narratives going. You can watch him in the hit-and-giggle stuff it's really what he wants to do anyway, has been since he announced his retirement from one-dayers, but then backtracked.
Shady Slim
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daresay he would have most definitely outscored compton and hales but you wouldn't have him as opener (the wheel?) i would not think
RossTaylorsBox
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Mark Nicholas thinks they're both wonderful?
Well he ain't batting 4 ahead of Root, nor 5 ahead of Taylor. If he plays he has to bat top 3.
flibbertyjibber
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That would be the main problem, his ego would mean he would have to bat where he wants.
Black_Warrior
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Yeah because playing first class cricket and scoring triple centuries is the way you get selected for a test team.