Sunday, November 26, 2006

Tomorrow's Fish & Chip Paper

One of the perils of being a professional analyst during an Ashes tour is that newspaper headlines in the morning can rapidly become out of date because of activity the night before.

"Mind you, England's batting does appear fragile. What is Paul Collingwood doing at number four? He is not capable of that role in Australia where the extra bounce can expose his technical limitations. He is a good fighter and he might get a few down the order, but I seriously doubt whether his technique will ever allow him to be a Test-match number four."

Rod Marsh - Observer 26/11/2006

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nah, old Marshy's on the money you know. He is a good fighter, and he did get 96, but there were as many streaky nicks and near misses as there were glorious boundaries.

Four IS too high for him. Pieterson should be coming in there.