England's rotation policy
In the Guardian , Mike Selvey writes that Paul Collingwood and Andy Flower will test their rotation policy in the home summer against Bangladesh, and the player likely to get a break is Stuart Broad.
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
In the Guardian, Mike Selvey writes that Paul Collingwood and Andy Flower will test their rotation policy in the home summer against Bangladesh, and the player likely to get a break is Stuart Broad.
As a young fast bowler of slender build, Broad needs more careful management than some. But what of Collingwood? The argument will go that if he requires rest now, then some of that has to be down to his participation in the physical flog that was the Indian Premier League. He chose to go, and was allowed to do so by his employers. Would it be right then, not least to the public who would feel entitled to watch the best England side available, to omit him from the Bangladesh matches on this basis?
Keeping with England's most recent T20 success, Malcolm Knox writes in Back Page Lead that the ugly truth about world cricket is that England have better players than Australia.
New dad Kevin Pietersen has been busy changing nappies ever since he got back from the Caribbean. He tells Jim White of the Telegraph of his sleep management during the World T20, the camaraderie in the England dressing room and much more.
"Thank goodness for sleeping pills," he says. "I took a couple, was spark out for the whole flight, arrived in Barbados, had a quick spin on a jet ski with Colly [Paul Collingwood], something to eat, went to the team meeting, had another sleeping pill, slept for 11 hours and was totally refreshed and ready to play the next day. It's probably the last decent night's sleep I'll have in a while."
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo