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Paul Collingwood has predictably been given the job on England One Day captain, which oculd be seen as somewhat of a poisoned chalice.  However, the upside is that it probably can’t get an awful lot worse than the Australia tour and the World Cup.

He is already making the right noises, saying that England need to be more aggressive.  Hopefully then that means the end of Bell taking 20 overs to score 30 runs before getting out, and will mean Pieterson promoted up the order.  One thing is for sure - it has got to the be right approach.  Not forgetting that the game is a spectator sport, there is nothing worse then seeing England go down without so much as a fight, with the exception of KP and Collingwood himself of course.

The old Vaughan/Fletcher theory of attacking in the final 10 overs when the field is out and in most cases we only have  a couple of wickets left and too much to do was clearly flawed - it seems only they couldn’t see it.

Let’s just hope that Collingwood delivers what he is promising.  Time and again England captains and coaches of both cricket and football teams say one thing and deliver something else entirely.