Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
I'm growing to think that the suggested possibility - both Pietersen and Moores to depart - may be the preferable one.Very interesting! Perhaps against this background Penisen may feel more inclined to compromise with Moores than he did a couple of days ago. Interesting little saga, this.
Can only see some sort of compromise being a short-term papering-over of the cracks, with things being bundled into a timebomb to go off at an unannounced date - maybe just before the Third Test of the 2009 Ashes, with the series intreguingly poised at one-all.
Don't like this idea of Ashley Giles being England head-honcho with Allan Donald also involved though. Not at all. Donald has already had a position and clearly found it wasn't to his liking, and Giles has barely been out of the game as a player 5 minutes.
Hope we may see an experienced coach and Andrew Strauss given the Test captaincy (hang the ODI one for the moment) for West Indies. Think that'd be the best possible outcome.
Just wish it was realistic to expect to see Duncan Fletcher back.