Rotating players is the right move for England
In the Daily Mail , Nasser Hussain stands up for the policy of rotating players, even if it deprives English fans from watching their favourite players at home.
Tariq Engineer
25-Feb-2013
In the Daily Mail, Nasser Hussain stands up for the policy of rotating players, even if it deprives English fans from watching their favourite players at home.
People might point out it's wrong for Collingwood to make a quick buck in the IPL and then sit out a Test series in front of his own fans. But, again, that is the reality of the world we live in. You can't stop the players chasing the money. The only question that matters is: how do you best manage the situation for the good of English cricket?
What England are trying to do now is cover every base. When I captained England in Australia in 2002-03, we lost Darren Gough and Andrew Flintoff to injury, as well as Graham Thorpe, who was having personal problems. But we ended up having to replace them with guys who had hardly any experience of international cricket. The result? We got stuffed.
Tariq Engineer is a former senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo