Stuart Fraud

[The Realist]

Back at the start of January, around the time when England first arrived in Australia, Stuart Broad said what may just be the most prescient thing anyone has uttered since. “We would have to have an absolute stinker,“ he opined, “not to make the quarter finals.” His stats in the WC read 13 runs in 4 innings. 3 wickets at 78.66. Geoffrey Boycott summed it up today when he said that Broad is mentally gone with reference to his article that he had been shaken up by Aaron last summer. Even Eng fans have had enough of his pretentiousness:

"Ideally all the bowlers that played in this world cup should be sacked. Our bowling must be built from scratch, though I don't see them sacking Broad, much less Anderson" "Summed up perfectly by Broad's dismissal - a bowler who once had pretensions to bat, now wandering towards the covers so a reasonable bowler could see all three stumps - and this is a well-known fault - what the hell are coaches doing and why the hell is Broad doing it?" "I'd also like to see Broad dropped - not on his performance but because I think he's poison in the team" "Broad is about as much use as a fart in a bottle in recent times and in this World Cup in particular.- whether it is the result of being nailed by a plimsoll crusher by Johnson in Perth followed up by a ball through the grill of his helmet in the recent series against India, or whether he's too fixated on non cricket matters like the minimum wage or his interest in wine, who would know. He needs to be dropped for a spell in hopes it will bring him round to his oats"

From being a pretty boy with some talent who had pretensions of being an all-rounder he has now become a trundler who is losing his hair and bats like a deer in the headlights.

[BlueBee]

:hysterical:

[NareshK]

The format itself is created in such a way that unless a team plays really, really poor cricket they would make it to the QFs. It shows how poor Eng have been that they couldnt even make it to top 4 in the group. Perhaps its time for Eng to give up their ODI status and let Ireland or Afghanistan have it because they seem to value it lot more and seem hungry to win.

[Marut]

This was a six match league, not a three match league as in 2007. Any team that can't get through the league stages is an absolute minnow.

[The Realist]

On the Cricinfo Pod with Michael Holding and Ajit Agarkar they asked the question "Why do England keep sticking with Stuart Broad?" Because the stats show Fraud has the worst figures among England bowlers since 2013. Even worse than Jade Dernbach... :cantstop:

[MCGGG]

He's as mentally fragile as they come, bit like England.

[Switchblade]

Back at the start of January, around the time when England first arrived in Australia, Stuart Broad said what may just be the most prescient thing anyone has uttered since. “We would have to have an absolute stinker,“ he opined, “not to make the quarter finals.†His stats in the WC read 13 runs in 4 innings. 3 wickets at 78.66. Geoffrey Boycott summed it up today when he said that Broad is mentally gone with reference to his article that he had been shaken up by Aaron last summer. Even Eng fans have had enough of his pretentiousness: From being a pretty boy with some talent who had pretensions of being an all-rounder he has now become a trundler who is losing his hair and bats like a deer in the headlights.

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