What ails Anderson the leader
In his Yahoo column, Graham Thorpe is startled by the decline of James Anderson's stocks, from being touted as the leader of the England attack to losing his Twenty20 spot and being 'rotated' out of the Bangladesh series.
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
In his Yahoo column, Graham Thorpe is startled by the decline of James Anderson's stocks, from being touted as the leader of the England attack to losing his Twenty20 spot and being 'rotated' out of the Bangladesh series.
It is not good for team morale to simply 'rotate' your key players as it leads everyone to believe that they have been dropped. Which, given Anderson's shoddy form of late, is entirely believable. If Anderson was being rested, which coach Andy Flower implied in his post-match interviews, then the fact that he spent most of the Bangladesh innings on the field as a workhorse substitute fielder is absurd.
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo