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*Official* England in Australia (2 T20 & 7 ODIs)
- Thread starter GIMH
- Start date
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Forgot this was on till half an hour ago - ignorance was preferable tbh
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Well played Watson.
But England have been seriously ****e for too much of the game. Crap batting by most of our middle and lower order, no threat at all from our opening bowlers and way too many errors in the field. Throw in some iffy captaincy, and this has been something of a shocker. The rest of this series should be a real treat.
But England have been seriously ****e for too much of the game. Crap batting by most of our middle and lower order, no threat at all from our opening bowlers and way too many errors in the field. Throw in some iffy captaincy, and this has been something of a shocker. The rest of this series should be a real treat.
Spark
Global Moderator
I don't want to know what cruel words you have for our fielding effort then...
wellAlbidarned
International Coach
Um. Irrelevant question, why is "*****on" censored, but "twatto" isn't?
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
... tbh I missed it. I suppose it always looks worse when it's key errors that cost you the match though. If Trott had been remotely mobile, Watson would have gone ages ago and we're looking at a very different game. I'm not saying Aus didn't deserve to win, btw, before anyone gets the wrong impression.
Flyonthewall
U19 Captain
Think we're being a touch harsh on Bresnan here. That was shockingly bad umpiring if he really didn't indicate for the first one.
Tremlett and the batsmen the biggest culprits in this defeat. Realistically, we should have made at least 20 more than we actually did. Still, it's only the first match of a seven-match series and in no way necessitates the over-reactions from some posters on here. FFS, teams have bad days. There's no way this England side will perform this badly in the next match. And equally no way that Watson will be quite as epically good as he has been in this innings.
Admittedly, it is looking like a very strange decision indeed to rest Anderson (our only real considered very good one-day bowler given Broad's injured) from the first three ODIs. The T20s should have more than sufficed.
Tremlett and the batsmen the biggest culprits in this defeat. Realistically, we should have made at least 20 more than we actually did. Still, it's only the first match of a seven-match series and in no way necessitates the over-reactions from some posters on here. FFS, teams have bad days. There's no way this England side will perform this badly in the next match. And equally no way that Watson will be quite as epically good as he has been in this innings.
Admittedly, it is looking like a very strange decision indeed to rest Anderson (our only real considered very good one-day bowler given Broad's injured) from the first three ODIs. The T20s should have more than sufficed.