Sacked by KP, hired by Freddie.
It may not be that simple, but Peter Moore is now coach of Lancashire, and in some ways that will be a step up.
No KP.
No English press coming down on him.
No Ian Bell.
And a pretty good team.
It’s pretty much a promotion.
The inside mail is that one is to go, definitely.
Proper inside mail.
That i take serious like inside mail.
Exactly.
So place your bets.
Where are your clams?
Odds:
KP to go, a kabillion to one.
Moores to go, no point betting, you will just end up owing me money.
Vaughan to come in as coach if Moores get assholed, 8 to 1.
KP is testing the faith.
He is 3 tests into his career, has not won a live test, has been smashed 5 zip in one dayers by India and lost 20 million crackers.
He also slipped in a de pantsting of South Africa in a one day series that they had already mentally check out of.
Now he wants Michael Vaughan in, Peter Moores out.
It’s that simple.
KP is stamping his foot, like a trophy bride in size 8 manolo blahniks looking for a new diamond necklake
The problem for most English cricket fans is they can only agree with 50% of KP’s demands.
There are some fans who want Moores out.
There are a lot of fans who don’t want to see Vaughan back.
But the amount of people who want Moores out and Vaughan back would be small.
So KP is working without the support of fans or media, and without any great success behind him.
Moores may not have a great record either, but it’s not as if Vaughan’s recent work has even existed.
KP is walking into the ECB naked, holding a mini bat, but still rocking it with that amazing KP confidence that no scientist could ever explain.
That is how KP works.
There are no great brainstorming sessions, or lists with the pros and cons.
He just jumps in without thinking.
It seems to have worked so far.
But being a cricket captain with a sub par record you need a little finesse, you need a lightness of touch, and you need to bend over and take the occasional reaming.
KP doesn’t strike me as someone who would like to do that, from anyone other than Mrs KP and a rubber aid.
Going in heavy handed at this stage, for a dude who hasn’t played any cricket to prove his selection could be a massive mistake.
If we know one thing about KP as a leader, he is a star players captain, Harmy, Shah, and Freddy have already felt the warm hand of Kp’s support tugging on their career.
And doing this may make the team come together, ofcourse if Moores gets the ass because of it, they may separate like Berlin.
The Probots on one side, the talent on the other.
In a fight to the death.
One that KP might win, but if he gets his way, gets a new coach, and gets Vaughan, and Vaughan fails and England loses, what is KP’s fall back position.
Zimbabwe?
The Superstars won the money.
They wanted to win, they thought about winning, they prepared to win.
And they won.
Some would say that is how you play sports.
England decided on a different tact.
First the selection process was not for a 2020 game, it was the one day squad.
Some new players were made to feel uncomfortable at their selection, like they had anything to do with it.
From there some players were talking about money, some were talking about India, some were talking about playing for their country.
England arrived days before their first game.
They all tried to sound unconcerned about money, even though the game was money.
Then the wags, and Stanford visits got to them.
Then they lost the game.
Peter Moores and KP believe their heads were not in the game.
But who’s fault was that?
With Moores taking shit about what the game was about, and KP telling everyone to respect the crunch of credit, they had their boys all fucked up in the noggin.
They were playing a team who wanted to win, for them it was the about the money.
And they have it.
Apparently KP told Gayle that that the Superstars needed the money more than his boys did.
Perhaps he is a philanthropist after all.
At least he didn’t try to make the Windies Grovel for their money.
He just sort of gave it to them.
If that was the plan, they did it beautifully.
This was the BANDaid of cricket tournaments, shame they never get the really shit hot musicians in.
Peter Moores has let the bullshit of modern sport get to him.
I can’t blame him, it happens to everyone these days, and it happens to probotic coaches once they receive their first pay check.
It’s nothing to be ashamed of.
But when you claim that the Stanford game isn’t all about money, and you call it an ‘international’ you have lost your fucking mind.
It’s not an international, you aren’t playing a country, you are playing a sponsor.
It’s like if Australia played the Snap Crackle & Pop XI, sure you are representing your country, but you are only doing because some texas good old boy came up with the Benjamins.
Alistair Cook is right, and I don’t say that easily, this is all about the cash, because without the cash this wouldn’t exist.
Test cricket was around before the cash, and if shit came to shit, would probably be around after the cash.
But 2020, and Stanford are just cash.
Disposable assets.
Like eating McDonalds, it may feel good at the time you are eating that crap, but you know if 15 minutes you’re gonna be doing a McCrap and wishing you ate some real food.
I think Alistair Cook is a good batsman, but I wish he would make more centuries, when he said this
“The actual cricket is quite unimportant, apart from financially,”
It was his only century this season.
If Moores wants to say things like,
“It (the Stanford Super Series) is an event sanctioned by the ICC”
and keep a straight face, he can.
But in real cricket, we don’t call them events, we call them series, events are when BoyzIIMen play at your local shopping centre.
And do you know why they play at shopping centres, it’s not for the love of the music.
There are literally rumours flying everywhere around England at the moment.
The latest one is that KP and Peter Moores are not bosom buddies.
It must have some base as Peter Moores has come out and mentioned he had a one hour conversation with KP after Vaughan pissed off.
One hole hour.
Here is what Moores said on cric info, I have taken the liberty of interpreting.
“Coaches and captains are always going to have different views because they look at the game from a different angle”
Kp is a weird one, no doubt.
“But I’ve always found Kevin fine. What I like about him is that he’s got his views, which can be pretty forthright.”
The term arrogant fucktard comes to mind.
“One of the first things I wanted to do when we were going to offer him the captaincy was to sit down and talk to him about where he was coming from and what his views were and whether they matched mine. By the end we both felt very confident that we were coming from the same place.”
We decided we both love KP.
“He’ll be different to Michael [Vaughan] because he’s a different man, Michael had his style and that was very successful. Kevin will bring Kevin Pietersen, which is crucial.”
Did I really say that, how could he not bring Kevin Pieterson, is that a question for Quantum physicists.
“He’ll be his own man and that’s going to be really important. What’s really promising is that the senior arm of the team is going to get behind him.”
With their knives ready.
That seems to have cleared up the KP Moores rumour quite nicely.
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