Agree-Same Error As Making Botham Captain...
Quite how the selectors have worked out that the biggest name or personality should always be Captain, I don't know-Botham was a mistake (Brearley has been one of Englands best captains in recent years, and he wasn't a character-far from it-or even what you might call a great cricketer, but by God, he knew the game and how to relate to players) and he flopped, lost form as well-now this has happened to Freddie.
Happens in other sports-I could never work out why Wilkinson was chosen to replace Johnson as England RU captain, and Beckham had far more uninspiring games as football captain than good ones.
Strauss is more of a thinker and yes, a definite better candidate.
Posted By: Martin Peters on December 16th 2006 at 12:40:32
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- feel sorry for Flintoff (Other Sports) - phrankin, Dec 16, 12:03:20
- injured though (n/m) (Other Sports) - Charles21, Dec 16, 13:56:55
- Agree-Same Error As Making Botham Captain... (Other Sports) - Martin Peters, Dec 16, 12:40:32
- It will be Panaesar, surely? (Other Sports) - Iwan Husarmi, Dec 16, 14:01:24
- re flintoff wilkonson - its done for publicity i would imagine... (n/m) (Other Sports) - phrankin, Dec 16, 13:05:11
- and beckham (n/m) (Other Sports) - strap_on sally, Dec 16, 13:29:29
- Totally agree - Strauss should have been given the captaincy (n/m) (Other Sports) - duke of york, Dec 16, 12:25:27
- oh yeah I here the umpiring was disgraceful as usual. (n/m) (Other Sports) - phrankin, Dec 16, 12:05:47
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