KP uses a pink handled bat too

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:30, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

And often bats like a girl.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:34, Reply)

Unfair
He never bats like a girl, he always bats like a bloke. Sometimes that bloke is an absolute dickhead, that's all
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:37, Reply)

Well that's true - I was just being flippant
His technique is essentially flawed, and he's not really addressed it.

Ally Cook had technical failings, addressed them, and hasn't looked back. KP would do well to learn from that.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:39, Reply)

Cook is batting superbly at the moment
On current form he must be the best opening batsman in the world, if the world were reconfigured to not include India. And you're quite right about KP, he seems to have deemed the most simple lesson of batting - leave the good balls, punish the bad ones - unimportant to a man of his considerable gifts.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:45, Reply)

Exactly
If this was his first year in international cricket he'd have been dropped before now, but because he's "established" then he gets away with it.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 10:51, Reply)

And there are very few middle-order batsmen in the world, let alone England
who can score runs like he can when he's on form.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 11:02, Reply)

Yes but his periods of form are becoming few and far between.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 8 Jun 2011, 11:07, Reply)

Agreed
He needs to re-evaluate his batsmanship if he wants to claim a place as one of the game's greats. And I think we all know he does.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 8 Jun 2011, 11:12, Reply)