{"id":7918,"date":"2012-02-13T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/cricket-too-much-christmas-time-off-hurt-england\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:02:20","slug":"cricket-too-much-christmas-time-off-hurt-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-too-much-christmas-time-off-hurt-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Too much Christmas time off hurt England"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ken Borland<\/span><\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 13 (Reuters) – Too much time off over
\nChristmas was probably to blame for England’s cricketing failure
\nagainst Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, former captain
\nPaul Collingwood said on Monday.<\/p>\n

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“The defeats came out of the blue in many ways and in trying
\nto see, from the outside, what they have done differently, the
\nonly thing I can think of is that it was probably the team’s
\nlongest ever break heading into the series,” Collingwood told
\nReuters.<\/p>\n

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“Normally we’d only get three or four weeks off at the end
\nof our summer and we didn’t spend many Christmases at home.<\/p>\n

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“But this time there was a three-month break which meant
\nthey went into the series a bit cold. Especially in the first
\ntest, which did the damage because they didn’t play spin very
\nwell, which meant their confidence levels were down and they
\nnever recovered.”<\/p>\n

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England were beaten 3-0 by Pakistan in the test series that
\nended last week and play the first of four one-day
\ninternationals on Monday in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

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Collingwood, who is in South Africa to play in a domestic
\nT20 competition starting on Wednesday, said he was sure England
\nwould put up a better showing in the limited-overs games.<\/p>\n

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“The good thing about this England team is that there’s a
\nreally good culture in the dressing-room engendered by Andy
\nFlower and Andrew Strauss. They obviously won’t be happy with
\nthe performance, but there won’t be any panic stations.<\/p>\n

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“They’re still a very good cricket team, they just didn’t
\nadapt quickly enough to the conditions. I expect them to turn
\nthings around in the one-dayers.”
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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