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Listed below are comments made by cheghedges between Friday, 1st August 2008 and Sunday, 3rd August 2008.

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Lack of runs costs emotional Vaughan 7:50pm on 03 Aug 2008 Good bye thanks very much, but long-term absoulutely the right thing for England

The phrase form is temporary class is forever is so over used, but is very appropriate for Vaughan. Good form in 2002/2003 and has shown his lack of class every since.

Also lauded as England's most successful captain but out of his 26 wins, 20 of those have come against the not very considerable might of West Indies, New Zealand and Bangladesh.

Don't want to burden KP with the captaincy, but so few of the current XI are guranteed their places that it looks like thats the way they are going to go.
Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 11:54pm on 01 Aug 2008 Pedantic? 40 avg/ 50avg aren't the same it's just facts. Not small marhins.You keep going with your love in for Collingwood super little all round one day cricketer but essex have four just like him.
Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 10:34pm on 01 Aug 2008 Interesting stats snelly1986? he averages 'about' 50. What a beautiful word about.

He averages 41 against australia half of those runs were in one innings in the rest he averages 24. Against India he averages 47 including 1 not out hundred and a couple of 50's. So overall 4 good knocks in 24 against 2 good teams. Including a double century and a not out hundred. Definately doesnt hurt the old average.
Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 10:24pm on 01 Aug 2008 Brilliant #119 Henman/ Nadal serve volley advice. I like it! Use it often. Brilliant comparison.
Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 10:04pm on 01 Aug 2008 I really think there are some late night revellers on here trying to get my goat. Drop Piertersen? Teach him the team is bigger than him?

This is the guy who has the most for England in the series, he is the one English batsman who would get in a world XI. He plays big shots, risky shots, his switch shot twice for 4 and nobody says a thing, then he goes for a big six for his century and suddenly ooh he's a naughty boy he shouldn'b be playing shots like that!

The one saving grace of the whole day is that KP doesnt read these boards, otherwise the guy might just walk away from it all. Legend, total legend. Enjoy him coz u'll miss him when he's gone.
Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 9:39pm on 01 Aug 2008 and Collingwood proves the doubters wrong again? Again? When did he last do it? 2006 well welcome back to the party! Everyone makes such a big deal of Bell under pressure because it came into vogue a couple of weeks ago.

Clarke for Australia has never got a century without someone else getting one. Sounds like good company to me. Bell bats at five, England have a long tail so it's hard to be the only guying getting a century that low down.

He got his 199 coming in when England were under pressure. Collingwood was the only one to get a century this innings but KP was only one blow away from his.
Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 9:33pm on 01 Aug 2008 Do what the team needs undersea level? I don't think KP is the only one gulity of that. Vaughn, Bell, Collingwood, Strauss all do the business when their necks on the line not necessarily when the teams need them.

I wanna b an top order england bat, I get out for under 20 and get done by a 'Jaffa' a 'Miracle' ball! Nobody could have played it. Get no criticism, then the guy who is touching distance from a century will take the flak. Madness!
Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 9:25pm on 01 Aug 2008 I love it praise the guy that makes a score every 18months and lay into the guy that does it two or three times every series and plays one rash shot. It's all about making the expectations too high. Do what the rest of the top six do KP and do nothing for a year then unleash for a game and they will love you for it. Bizarre, how very English.

Excellencefirst you maybe from another generation. An old generation where u ground along at 2runs an over, dull, dull,boring,boring. The worlds moved on and so should you.

The new generation is young, athletic, exciting,inventive, got the lot. Now come join us in the 21st Century!
Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 8:55pm on 01 Aug 2008 I see where you are coming from Andy very good. The people calling for those on form to always be in the England team don't see the distrubtion and lack of cohesion that would bring.

It's fine to drop one or two seriously out of form players and bring in one or two who are banging hard on the door. But not huge wholesale changes.

The problem is, it's so hard to tell who is in test match form from the county averages because the standard is so much lower. Look at Mark Ramprakash averaging a hundred last season and not getting a look in. Whilst Bopara averages 30's this season and is being strongly backed for a place.

Different stages of their careers and different players but just an illustration.
Pietersen fails to complete rescue operation 8:24pm on 01 Aug 2008 So you wanted him to go and get form? Did he get the form? He hasn't got any county runs all season.

I saw him in the twenty20 the other day. Yes different form of the game and all that. The bloke looked like he didn't know which end of the bat to hold.He could have been out at anytime, and he was still hopelessly out of nick in the first innings of this test.

Nice runs in the end but Ntini had been giving him some nice half track stuff to get him started. Throw enough..... some of it will stick and all that.

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