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Old 23-11-2006, 3:39 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Lets face it Flintoff & Fletcher don't like Panesar

And here I present the evidence why..

Panesar was chronically underbowled against Sri Lanka by Freddie, often giving him just short spells. When Strauss took the cpataincy he was used for long periods against batsman who are the best players of spin (Yousef, Younis, Inzi) and took their wickets.

Why are we suddenly lacking in the batting dept when Trescothick has not been scoring at all this summer?

We have a ready made replacement in Cook for Trescothick, why drop Panesar?

What has Giles done for his return to the team? Has he scored runs?no?

Surley you replace like for like, and get thhe best specialists playing in their posiitions?

Why has Fletcher not told the likes of Hoggard to improve their batting in the lower order? Why has Panesar been the only one to be told to improve?

What really sickens me is that Panesar , through out summer has performed to cement his place in the team, and Giles, wwho has done nothing (before and after his injury) walks in , if im sickned, how is Panesar feeling.

This is cronyisism at its worst and I have no douibt that Strauss would have been in Panesars corner.
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Why has Fletcher not told the likes of Hoggard to improve their batting in the lower order? Why has Panesar been the only one to be told to improve?.
I think that most English cricket fans will agree with you and even Nick Knight who is Ashley Giles colleague and ex captain at Warwickshire said on Sky tonight that he wouldn't have picked him.

Hoggard may not be a great run scorer but he can stick around for ages compiling his score of 5 whilst allowing a real batsman at the other end to score runs. No-one has mentioned James Anderson who has accumulated a total of 89 runs from his 18 Test innings with a highest score of 21 which is less than Monty's highest of 26 (scored off Muralitheran at trent Bridge this year)
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Old 23-11-2006, 9:21 PM   #3 (permalink)
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No-one has mentioned James Anderson who has accumulated a total of 89 runs
89 is about the minimum number of runs he concedes per innings as well.
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Re: Lets face it Flintoff & Fletcher don't like Panesar

Panesar is generally untried on the major stage. He'll get his chance, gradually, and I'll bet that he'll be the star of the Ashes! It's a bit like Theo Walcott and Arsenal, Wayne Rooney and Everton, they were introduced to the top flight gradually.

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It is nothing like Walcott and Rooney.

Monty is an established county player and after his performances last winter and during the summer one of the best finger spinners in the world.
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Monty is an established county player and after his performances last winter and during the summer one of the best finger spinners in the world.
Given the above it's all the more ludicrous that he hasn't been picked

Mind you.

Not the first time that a player has probably been excluded just because another player fits in better or is buddies with the selectors/management, cough wicket keeper
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Re: Lets face it Flintoff & Fletcher don't like Panesar

It's silly not to pick Monty
Why do the selectors have this bee in their bonnet about picking people who can bat as well ? In the good old days bowlers were picked for their ability to get wickets and it didn't matter that they couldn't bat. If your batsmen are good enough you shouldn't really need to worry about the batting skills of your top bowlers ! I bet it took Giles a few years of Test matches to be able to put some runs together with the bat, so how the hell do they expect Monty to get that experience and become a batter batsman if they don't pick him ? This ground is known to be a favourite of Warne, so why didn't that convert to our selectors picking a bowler who can actually spin the ball properly ?
You watch, they will pick Monty for one game at a ground that's crap for spin and then say that was his chance I believe that Monty has the ability to win matches for us with his bowling and I don't put Giles in the same class. Once again our national team could be let down by the people who run the sport.... the ageing ex-public school, old school tie brigade who seem to worm their way into ruining (as opposed to running) our national teams.
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Re: Lets face it Flintoff & Fletcher don't like Panesar

I'd have gone with Monty too.

Fact is, you need to take 20 wickets to win a Test, no matter how many runs are scored. Giles won't take a 5-fer in this Series, Monty might well have done.

Also, there would have been no fear, no doubt, in the Aussies minds whilst facing up to Giles. Monty is new to a lot of them and that in itself could have helped.

Anyway, barring a miracle we are 0-1 down and facing a long, hot Winter...
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Does it rain much in Oz-land?

Its our only hope (Hah! I sound like Princess Lea )
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I hear a rumour that they are recalling Gooch, Atherton and Gatting to bowl in the next test as they can strengthen the 9, 10 and 11 batting positions
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Old 24-11-2006, 3:14 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Re: Lets face it Flintoff & Fletcher don't like Panesar

Did Mike Gatting bowl ( can't remember)?

Send the bowlers in to bat first, then we'll have a good tail.

Being negative in any sport is a recipe for disaster. Choosing bowlers because they can bat can only lead to defeat. If the selectors feel that the top/middle order can't score enough runs, then replace those and not leave out our Monty.
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Re: Lets face it Flintoff & Fletcher don't like Panesar

I read something on Cricinfo this morning that astounded me.

Duncan Fletcher said that the decision who was playing wasn't solely down to him as whilst he and Flintoff had a big say they also consult a selection "panel of senior players - Andrew Strauss, Paul Collingwood and Jones" before each test.

I can understand them consulting Strauss as he is the vice captain and in many people's opinion should have been the captain anyway but Paul Collingwood is only playing at all thanks to Marcus Trescothick pulling out whilst the England Management didn't see fit to award a central contract to Geraint Jones at all and the decision to play him instead of Chris Read was a highly contentious decision.

It does now seem that cronyism plays a big part in the selection process and having read these revelations it wouldn't surprise me to find out that Ashley Giles is also a member of this elite selection panel. At least that would explain how he keeps getting picked.
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A quote from Giles himself:

It's as if people suspect that I have kidnapped England's version of Shane Warne and kept him hidden in a cupboard under the stairs. Well, I've got news for everybody: there is no English Shane Warne and, if there was, he would not be locked up in the cupboard under my stairs. I would take as much joy as everyone else in watching him. Perhaps one day we will find him. But we haven't. And, that being the case, whether people like it or not, I still think I'm the best man for the job.

Some great comments from the press about him:

The weakness displayed by Giles in dealing with criticism will no doubt have been noted by the Australians' sledging sub-committee . . . One passage of self-pity verged on the shocking.
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We've had Giles the newspaper columnist, Giles the website blogger. If he put as much spin on the ball as the words, he might be half as good as Shane Warne. Giles is lucky. His place relies on the flawed wisdom that England must have a spinner. Even an ordinary one.
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Giles has to get through the second Test to get to the third. If he's not allowed to do the containment work, then it's unlikely he can stay at the crease and then they [England] will need to bring back their impact bowlers.
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Australia coach

Crikey, the criticism directed at Giles in the last week is nothing compared to what I have had to deal with in my career. So stop being a namby pamby!
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Daily Telegraph

What use is he in the side? He's not going to get wickets against the Aussie batsmen and he's not going to make any runs. With him, England are effectively playing 10 against 11. They should either include another specialist batsman or pick a spinner who can bat.
Dave Houghton
Derbyshire coach

Giles took time out from his column to have a pop at the critics: texting his detractor, the Derbyshire coach Dave Houghton, was precious.
Michael Atherton
Sunday Telegraph

We'll never beat Australia carrying dead wood and Ashley Giles and Geraint Jones are dead wood - but I wouldn't drop them.
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Daily Telegraph

http://sport.guardian.co.uk/ashes200...540075,00.html
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