The ECB is allowing players to choose whether they want to go back to India and play the test series. Given what has just happened in India I think that is sensible. It also allows everyone to find out which players have some backbone and which will give in easily. I would suggest that the players that refuse to go back are looking for an easy way out of a tricky situation and that should be borne in mind for future selection. The England team needs to be full of players who have balls -- real men if you like, not wimps.
Indian cricket needs the England test players to turn up and play cricket; to show the world that India (and England) are not going to be put off by the actions of a few. After 7/7 in England ordinary people who lived in London didn’t get up the next day and hide in the cupboard; they went out there and did their thing, using the Tube and buses. They showed real courage, just as the people of Mumbai have shown in the last few days.
I presume that anyone who decides they cannot possibly go to India to do their job will a) not get paid and b) not be allowed back there to play in the IPL...
Sunday, 30 November 2008
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the same players who can play during 7/7 are developing cold feet...
more then the attacks they are fearing the attack they suffered in ODIs...and the long work hrs they will have to put-in in tests...
your IPL one is an excellent suggestion...one cant just have best of both world and get away with it...
Amen to the post!
"and that should be borne in mind for future selection", i think that is stupid. Think about this: all of a sudden your in the cricketers shoes, You have a wife, serval kids, Mum dad, you still have Grankids to come, Do you really put that in jeperdy, do you really put all that on the line just because you may never get picked again, I think people have to relize that we are human, we have fear, so more then others. But every single one of those cricketters will feel presured to go. Cricket is not a sport of watching for your life mabye we should keep it that way. Deep down do you really care if there whimps as long as there good?
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