Ah yes Petersen the well known South African ....oohps sorry.... the well known English batsman, who gets on so well with his team mates and helps generate that so important team spirit. His absence gives a chance for a real English player to get in the team and doing at least as well as Petersen never consistently did in the international game, or rather when the mood took him!!. Now where you might want to have a go at the English Cricket Board is that they have failed to develop a large pool of cricket playing youngsters to pick from and develop... and that's down to their ability to breakdown the white middle class and public school dominance playing the game in England.
Also the fact that we are using a foreign player there are similarities with football and the FA vs PL clash on the use of foreigners in the PL, and increasingly in the Championship, in preference to developing young English players, and that includes other so called 'home' international players from Scotland, Wales, NI and more latterly - for some unexplained reason - the RoI, all of whom should be rightly classed as foreigners. They should look to their own FA's to do something about the development of their players, like the English FA wanted to do with the Olympic Football, but are stopped from doing so by the other 'home' FAs!!!!!
Well let's see if those well considered thoughts sets this thread alight!!!!!
