Stop trying to sound like you know what you're talking about. You don't.
Quit the foolish trolling. Or else i will just report this post to the moderators.
Unless you can conclusively disprove what that said in this post & can show me & everyone else on planetcricket than England after the 2005 Ashes win, didn't also have aims to become the # 1 test team in world, just like after the recent 2010/11 Ashes win. Then be quiet.
They didn't care about ODIs earlier, kinda my point. Under Flower/Strauss they're looking at more than just tests and Ashes, they want to be the best side in the world. Whether they'll achieve it no one knows, but it's a nice change in mentality.
England do care about ODIs & always have. Its on of the great myths of the ENG ODI set-up just because they have been crap in the format over the last 15+ years - outsiders like yourself have interpreted than as a "lack of care" for ODI.
England ODI woes stem from a lack of combination of many things:
- Mentality of English cricketers from youth level. Whose styles are more suited to test match style batting & bowling.
- Lack of many 90 mph quick in list A cricket in the last 20 years to test batsmen. Which is one of one the reasons why England have struggled to produce ODI standard openers, more than any of the top 8 nations.
- Continuously picking bits a pieces country all-rounders over & over, instead of proper ones (although outside of Flintoff & maybe Craig White no other all-rounder has been of genuine ODI standard). Who may star up in domestic cricket, but continuously fail to translate the form @ international level.
- Picking test players to roles in ODIs. Then when they fail to translate across formats, a state of shock hits the land.
etc etc etc...as i said a book can be written about this. Andy Flower & current ENG selectors are still repeating the same past mistakes (i.e picking test cricketers to ODI players jobs - Cook as opener in ODIs instead of going for young Alex Hales & sticking with Tremlett & Anderson instead of going for domestic ODI stalwarts like Graham Napier). So as it regardless of T20 world-cup win, once those basis historical mistakes aren't cut out by Flower - the rhetoric of improving the ODI/T20 teams fortunes will remain just rhetoric.