I think people are over-reacting. I turned on the Verdict to find Carberry saying that he should have been playing and Dominic Cork moaning about how bad the team is at the moment. I disagree, I've been watching since the 1999 World Cup and bar the odd series, or decent run, we've never had a good one day side. We've always been an also-ran, so no, it wasn't better in the recent old days.
On the issues of this team, they keep on returning. Bell hasn't done well enough as a senior player, lots of us said that. Anderson has struggled, lots of us said that too. Broad looks poor banging it in half way down, the whole world has been saying this. But, I would say, the management do have a lot of blame. Two main points, James Taylor and Chris Woakes. Taylor plays well at 3, dropped down to 6 for the tournament. Woakes opens the bowling, does well, gets kicked down to 2nd change behind Broad, who has always been better without the new ball in ODI cricket. It's just crazy management.
Oh, and good to see Buttler doing well and getting praise for playing the right way. Who do you think are the best two English produced ODI batsmen of the last 15 years? Trescothick and Buttler? Shame everyone else who performs well on so called flat tracks like Taunton, gets written off without a chance to perform. Perhaps they should have had opportunities after all.....
