Premature? Think it was if anything a little belated myself, TBH.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
No worse, IMO, than any others really.
Bastards in general.
Sinclair and Vincent I'll give you, but Marshall??!!
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.
You'd think if you were so concerned you might spell his name properly.
Must have got confused, the speed always left me dazed wondering where my bails went.
They seem bad, but believe me ours can be horrible too, as I hope I've conveyed in the tour thread.
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.
Pah, fingerspinner. Granted Hitchcock and O'Brien playing ahead of him recently was odd TSTL tho.
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?
Hate to say it, but there are lack of ability issues there to boot.
Jeys, some people make a fuss about anything...
Too right but hope for the best.
Sorry, couldn't resist really.
Neither.