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Listed below are comments made by doorman_tom between Tuesday, 5th August 2008 and Sunday, 17th August 2008.

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Ainslie and Ayton live up to hype 11:03pm on 17 Aug 2008 I think Shirley's comments just underline how good Ben is. Unlike many Olympic athletes he doesn't sail the Star full time. He's probably spent more time sailing keelboats than dinghies over the last 4 years but he has the ability to put together a short campaign and still be head and shoulders above the rest.

We've never seen anything like this before. Watch out Steve Redgrave!
Pietersen will bring a new style of leadership 12:10pm on 05 Aug 2008 What is it with this idea of having one captain for all three forms of the game? It doesn't really stack up from a team-unity point of view as they are such different formats they could easily have a different captain.

I can't help wondering that there is some more subtle meaning at work here. With the rise of T20 there is genuine fear within the ICC that T20 will split away from mainstream cricket and mainstream cricket administration (ICC). With the levels of revenue that IPL/Stamford are generating this will risk ICC coffers and more importantly risk the status of test cricket of the pinacle of the game.

Could the ECB's desire to have a single captain have more to do with a desire to ensure that the game continues in a unified manner, thus protecting their recently-discovered, lucrative income stream?

Whatever happened to best man for the job? Strange that possibly the next best test cricket brain (Straus) is not considered for test captain because of his inability to play limited overs (and obviously current lack of form).

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