To Broad Or Not To Broad

Is Stuart Broad the man for the job? This is the question that is on everyone's lips.

Looking at the recent T20 world cup outcome and the horrendous winter that England have had the answer is no. The 27 year old must take the blame for what can only be described as an abomination. Firstly we need to discuss how predictable England's plans have become. "Moeen Ali will start the bowling for one over. Jade Dernbach will then bowl a few overs and will bowl in the power play attempting to bowl a few Yorkers that will end up becoming a full toss. Bopara will probably bowl one over if any but yet has the lowest economy and then will be take off for the rest of the game. Tim Bresnan will then bowl here and there. Broad will come on whenever he chooses. Jade Dernbach will then most likely close the bowling."

Firstly hardly anyone can pick what Ravi Bopara is going to bowl, not even Amla SO LET HIM BOWL MORE. Broad is supposedly our "main bowler" so why is he not bowling at the most crucial stages like in the power play. Is this because he wants to keep his bowling figures down? Most likely.
Next Broad should take responsibility as captain and take the new ball at the beginning of the game and then allow Jade Dernbach to come in later and bring his variation in.

It seems to me like our batting line up is basically sorted now and ready for anything, its the bowling that is very confusing. 7 bowlers in a T20 match is not needed. As Englishmen and Women we are a very arrogant country which then makes me think, are England trying to out smart the other teams. In T20 matches a lot of the game is luck! You do not need to have a set strategy for everything. Look at Dhoni for example, during a match if something is not happening his way he'll change his plans depending on what is happening during the game. When it comes to Broad it doesn't matter whether they are loosing or winning he will simply keep the same play every single game!

Looking at the lack of success in the recent attempts for England we can safely say that Stuart Broad is not the man for the job. I'm definitely not disputing the talent that Broad has shown over the years for Nottinghamshire and England but in this case I think he needs to concentrate on his bowling rather than looking at the rest of the team.

So who is the man that should be helping and controlling the rest of the team? A lot of the team are still fairly young and inexperienced such as Joe Root, Alex Hales and Chris Jordan. The man that I would give the role to would be none other than Eoin Morgan. He is experienced, clever, laid back and a respected member of the team.

Looking at Eoin Morgan the thing that benefits him the most is that he's a batsman, so when the lads are bowling he's able to sit back and watch rather than trying to figure out when he should go on to bowl.

Morgan would have an unbiased role in the team and is experienced and respected enough to have the big role of being the skipper. He has already captained the boys before so why not make it permanent and give Broad a break to concentrate on his bowling.

So To Broad Or Not To Broad.