Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

Thu 04 Apr 2007Time for Fletcher to make his exitThe England management responded yesterday to the team's ignominious exit from the World Cup, on the back of arguably the most humiliating arse-kicking they have received in a one-day international, by disappearing to the golf course without a word of explanation of what went wrong or a note of contrition.Instead, David Morgan, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, will offer a media conference this morning. Given it was he who recently announced his unequivocal support for the continuation of Duncan Fletcher's tenure, it would be short odds that the coach has been fired or - more likely - encouraged to resign.