Piers Morgan has a three-point plan to save England cricket

By Ankit Mishra

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Piers Morgan. (Photo Source: Twitter)

British journalist Piers Morgan who is usually in news himself for his comments and tweets has proposed a three-point plan to save England cricket. The India v England 5th Test in Mumbai where the visitors were handed an innings defeat by the Indians despite scoring 400 runs in the first innings and with that Team India took the series 3-0 with the last Test to be played in Chennai next week. Morgan feels that it’s time to bring about change in the leadership of the team.

As per his plan, they need to do away with current Test skipper Alastair Cook, hand over the responsibilities of leading the team to No.3 Joe Root who has over the years been proposed as the future leader of English cricket and the third and probably the most important from his point of view is to bring back Kevin Pietersen.

Morgan is one of those who still stand with the #BringBackKP campaign and believe he can still make a comeback after being in exile from English cricket for years. He tweeted- “My 3-pt plan to save England cricket: #CookOUT #RootCAPTAIN #BringBackKP”

The demands of promoting Root as skipper have been around for some time now and Cook also admitted that the 25-year-old was ready for captaincy. Talking in the post-match press conference the current skipper said, “I think Joe Root is ready to captain England,” he said.

“You never know until you actually experience it. The whole thing that comes with the England captaincy. You are thrown in at the deep end and you kind of sink or swim. It is as simple as that. Nothing can prepare you for it. “He is ready because he is a clued-up guy, he has the respect of everyone in the changing room. He has not got much captaincy experience but that does not mean everything.

“Being captain of England is a huge honour, a huge privilege. You are at the forefront of the team and it comes onto your shoulders when you win or lose. In the heat of the battle you make those decisions.” Cook said.

Another notable and important comment on the entire captaincy change this is from England coach Trevor Bayliss who denied the possibility of Cook’s sacking and backed him to lead the team out of the tough times. “From my point of view he’s got the job for as long as he wants it,” he told Sky Sports News. “Over the past 12, 18 months we’ve seen improvements in the way he captains the team.

“When you lose, the captain takes a lot of responsibility but he’s got broad shoulders.” Bayliss said.

Morgan’s tweet garnered immediate response from his followers and most of them didn’t agree to his idea. Here are some of the replies:

https://twitter.com/MattyJennison/status/808365543560511488

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