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[FvanN]

Not selected for the WI trip or the T20 world cup.. pity...I think that might be it for the man...

[ProCricketer1982]

England wont win without him, most talented batsmen England have. Shame. I see Giles as the future doom of the national team

[jwebber86]

he is bar far the best player surely they should find a way to work together, then they would stand a better chance of winning

[Manormanic]

just heard this news, not sure what planet the powers that be are on.  KP is our best batsman in every format of the game, and the idea of leaving him out in favour of Michael Lumb is just heresy.  If there are personality issues with Cook...well,lets face it, he won't be skipper for much longer.

[ProCricketer1982]

It's getting annoying. Ow all this 'personality' 'must be mates' crap. Do we all get on well with everyone we work with ? I know I don't but you are working so you do your best, smile, and crack on.

At the end of the day cricket is what all these do as a job, nothing more, nothing less.. So be bloody professional and get the funk on with it.

[Manormanic]

agree - one of my lads at work is an absolute pr**k but he is damned excellent at his job.  Which matters more to me?  the latter, every single day of the week.

[fasteddie]

He must have done something pretty serious.
I doubt the selectors and senior management would have taken that decision lightly at all.

[fasteddie]

agree - one of my lads at work is an absolute pr**k but he is damned excellent at his job.  Which matters more to me?  the latter, every single day of the week.

Absolutely correct.

A lack of tolerance for a different type of character?

[ProCricketer1982]

He must have done something pretty serious.
I doubt the selectors and senior management would have taken that decision lightly at all.

He did.. He's KP #BlameKP

[Manormanic]

Absolutely correct.

A lack of tolerance for a different type of character?

exactly - the big failing of the whole Team England ethos has been its lack of inclusion for anyone who is not either the quiet posh type (Strauss, Cook) or the Twitter generation lads on the Playstation type (Anderson, Broad, Swann, Bresnan, Finn, Bell, Root).  Michael Vaughan was a great man manager and could get those types to get along with the boozier Flintoff and Harmison and the fame hungry KP, but that seems to have died out and now...

...aside from the fact that we seem to be p*****g away another three years of one of the great talents of English batting at a time when we are precious short of talent for anything more than mindless accumulation, you can see the way that the nonconformist likes of Ravi Bopara, Monty Panesar, Graeme Onions and Jonny Bairstow have been messed around and compare it with the repeated help and chances given to Finn, Broad and Co.  Whether any of those four are capable of being top class test players I don't know. I do know that we should have seen better proof one way or the other.

[smilley792]

This will be a sad day remember,

It will see the end of a great English batsmen international career

And it will see the end of any chance of England winning anything for atleast 5years.




#gilesout

[csnew]

trust England to kick there best player out of the team.
Every other cricket team must be happy no KP.

KP will earn more outside the England team anyway

[Colesy]

What a farce

[The_Bird]

Time will tell. Huge loss from the test team.

[Ayrtek Cricket]

So weve lost Trott and Swann and are already struggling to score runs....of course the obvious option is to cast out the top run scorer during the Ashes and "rebuild".

Due to be in london on monday meeting KP so will wait to see if that still goes ahead.