England cricket selectors must learn from World Cup mistakes made and look to the future

Andrew Strauss has made a brave and sensible decision which will help the England selectors to start planning for the next World Cup in four years’ time.

England should start preparing for the next World Cup and that means Andrew Strauss must go

Just after Christmas England were the World Twenty20 champions, had just won the Ashes and were on a high. We were not the best one-day side but we were not the worst and fancied our chances in the World Cup.

Top teams will fancy facing inconsistent England

If England get through to the quarter-finals I will not be putting my money on them.

The future is bright for England, and the best is yet to come from golden generation

England go to the Sydney Cricket Ground with a surfeit of what I would call “nice problems to have”.

GB’s Ashes thoughts – 3rd test

Each day’s play reviewed by Geoff Boycott…

Stuart Broad’s replacement must be the best wicket-taking bowler … and that is Chris Tremlett

England can lose this series only if they bat badly and suddenly become ill-disciplined or play flashy, chancy shots.

Flat, lifeless pitches will hurt Australia more than England during Ashes 2010

I have never seen a Brisbane pitch as dead as the one that saw 624 runs scored for two wickets by both teams in the first Test.

James Anderson “Pepper me” – You must be kidding

Asked in a recent Wisden Cricketer poll which past player he’d have liked to have played against, James Anderson went bare-fanged for yours truly (“I would have peppered him”).

Woeful bowling and muddled thinking

Geoff Boycott reviews England’s two T20 matches in South Africa.

Victory in South Africa would be Strauss’s biggest coup

This is a huge tour for England, and unless there are a few injuries in the South African ranks – or some hefty slices of luck going Andrew Strauss’s way – I can’t say I’m feeling too confident about their prospects.

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    Geoffrey Boycott was a leading light in English cricket for a quarter of a century making over 48,000 runs and scoring 151 hundreds in an often controversial career with Yorkshire and England. After his distinguished peformances on the field he faced the biggest battle of his life – against cancer. He recovered to become an outspoken commentator on the game, his trenchant views on all aspects of cricket at home and abroad highly respected.

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