While there are a certain amount of anticipation and expectation about England's three new captains, there is one former captain who is certainly not enjoying his title as one.
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Paul Collingwood felt like he has been punched and does not know where to unleash his anguish and devastation. Speaking for the first time in England since England named three different skippers in Alastair Cook, Stuart Broad and Andrew Strauss for the three formats.
It may be recalled that Collingwood was England's Twenty20 captain before the ECB named Broad as his successor. What is of even greater significance is that Collingwood led England to their first ICC tournament victory in the ICC World Twenty20 in 2010 in the Caribbean.
Thereafter question marks about this own form led Paul Collingwood to eventually make the decision about his Test retirement in the course of the Ashes, keeping the door open on his Twenty20 and ODI career. Although the thirty-four year old was aware of the sudden change of captaincy before it was publicly announced, Collingwood has apparently taken the news hard.
Touching upon the fact that he retired from the five day format in order to be able to devote himself longer for the other formats of the game, Collingwood was apparently devastated by the news because he thought he was holding onto his job as the England Twenty20 captain and towards defending that ICC World Twenty20 title next year. That now has been taken away from him and Collingwood is apparently feeling forlorn to decide on the future course of action, although he is expected to pursue his Twenty20 and ODI career for England.
While Andrew Strauss had apparently decided to give up on the one day format internationally and therefore, was happy to keep the Test captaincy, Paul Collingwood had not given any intentions of giving up the England Twenty20 captaincy and in fact had eveyr intention of taking his job another notch. The ECB though thought otherwise.
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