Again from BBC Online – a rich vein of utter twaddle at the moment…

KP will be a big loss. He has great talent but appalling technique: his head is nearly always on the move when he hits the ball thus making it very difficult to be consistent.

When this bloke “twelfers” hit the return key to send this little nugget, do you think he stopped, for a second, to think what an absolute 24 carat twat he would sound like?

KP IS, let me restate this, IS consistent. He has 16 test centuries in 54 tests – 1 century every three and a half tests. Collingwood has nine in 50 tests, getting on for 1 every five and a half tests. Sachin, who everyone, including me, doutbing Indian scribes, agrees has, along with Ponting, been the most consistent batsman of the past 15 years or so has 42 tons in 159 tests, which is actually a worse ratio than KP. Ponting has 38 in 132, which is marginally worse. I know it is a smaller sample size, but for his early test career, KP has been, if anything else, consistent. He has at least two centuries against the seven test teams he’s played against, and he hasn’t been able to feast on cheap runs against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. How much more consistent do you want him? He averages 40 against every test nation, and over 50 against Australia, and 60 against South Africa – arguably the two best teams in the world right now.

Then we go on to KP’s batting technique, which has obviously hindered him throughout these years. Bob Willis believes his technique is good enough to put him up to the number 3 slot when he could come in second ball of a test. Others remark about how quick he is on his feet for a tall man. His footwork, to my untrained eye, was nowhere near as good as it had been in the recent tests, and sure, he can be got early (so can Ponting too, by the way), but this bloke has it sussed.

I’m sure there will be more…..