England Rankings for the World Twenty20
Third Umpire, The Old Batsman and England Cricket have ranked the performance of the English team in the World Twenty20. Here is a snapshot:
Player TU TOB EC Kevin Pietersen 8.0 11.0 8.0 Ravi Bopara 7.5 8.0 7.0 Stuart Broad 7.0 8.0 8.0 Grame Swann 7.0 7.0 7.0 James Foster 6.5 1.0 7.0 Dimitri Mascarenhas 6.5 6.0 6.0 Adil Rashid 6.0 6.0 7.0 Ryan Sidebottom 6.0 6.0 6.0 Owais Shah 5.0 4.0 6.0 Luke Wright 5.5 5.0 6.0 James Anderson 5.5 6.0 6.0 Paul Collingwood 5.0 2.0 6.0 Rob Key 3.0 Eoin Morgan 3.0 Graham Napier Did not play
The Old Batsman gives Kevin Pietersen a 11/10 which seems fair considering that England loses whenever Pietersen doesn’t turn in a great performance. James Foster’s 1/10 is surprising (typo?) considering his stumping of Yuvraj probably turned the game. Nobody likes Collingwood. Rob Key, Eoin Morgan and Graham Napier should get more chances before we can rate them.
Late comment (I’ve been without a home Internet connection recently, and started neglecting a few blogs). The Old Batsman’s ratings are based on how likely the players are to refer to themselves in the third person during an interview. This is almost certainly correlated with performance, but he obviously thinks that Foster is an exception.
Glad to see you back, David. I don’t know much about James Foster, but it seems The Old Batsman is giving (or taking) James Foster’s marks for humility?