*Official* England in Australia (2 T20 & 7 ODIs)

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Awesome win Australia. Peaking at the right time you'd think. We're gonna be pretty dangerous this world cup. Particularly given that we were behind by a long way in both games.

I wouldn't say Australia is playing particularly well. Bailed out by Shaun Marsh (not in WC squad) and Bollinger today. Still a long way from peaking, let alone being dangerous.

 

[Top_Cat]

I sincerely hope the Aussie selectors have taken note of the risks inherent with picking injury-prone play....oh **** it, MOREEEE PACE!

Pools on the next injury? Lee on day 1 of the WC, tbh.

 

[Spark]

Haha, it's only 30. One of the funniest 30s you'll ever see and deserves an award on entertainment value alone, but Marsh played a supreme innings.

 

[Jacknife]

Yes, this performance harks back to 3/4 years ago.

 

[Spark]

I wouldn't say Australia is playing particularly well. Bailed out by Shaun Marsh (not in WC squad) and Bollinger today. Still a long way from peaking, let alone being dangerous.

Eh? In the field Tait was the only one who underperformed. Everyone else did really quite well.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Pools on the next injury? Lee on day 1 of the WC, tbh.

3 overs into day -6 IMO. Warmup against India.

 

[Spark]

Mind you, 8/140... yeah we dodged one there

 

[Jacknife]

Eh? In the field Tait was the only one who underperformed. Everyone else did really quite well.

I think he was talking about the batting.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Eh? In the field Tait was the only one who underperformed. Everyone else did really quite well.

Talking about the batting. Hence the Shaun Marsh reference.

Australia bowled/fielded well, but would not have had enough to defend without a stunning knock from Marsh, and unlikely support from Bollinger.

 

[hazsa19]

Yes indeed. But to call us a ****e side or write our WC chances on the back of it is lacking perspective, IMO.

Colly to do an 06-07 IMO, i.e. gun it after returning from being dropped

Yeah I wasn't saying that, but today was really really poor.

Throwback to the nineties and the early noughties

 

[wpdavid]

We haven't lost a series since September 09, including beating Saffa in Saffa at that time. And I didn't think we were too bad in the last game, outdone by a wonderclass from Watson.

Obviously this hasn't been good enough today, but seriously, let's keep a bit of perspective. It's one game.

Beating SA was good, but we were hardly convincing against Aus, only winning against their 3rd string attack and losing comprehensively once Tait returned. Beyond that we beat Bang and Pak sans Asif and Amir? It's no great shakes really.

And even in this series, it wasn't just one game. In the 1st one, our openers were incredibly lucky to last as long as they did, the middle order were too poor to capitalise, and our attack barely threatened until it was too late.

Bottom line is that our default setting for the 50-over games is embarrasingly poor. Occasionally we show up, but it's by far the exception rather than the rule. Too many passengers, whoever ends up on the pitch for us.

 

[vcs]

Well, Australia lost 5 or 6 on the trot before WC '07 and it didn't seem to do them too much harm...

 

[Spark]

Talking about the batting. Hence the Shaun Marsh reference.

Australia bowled/fielded well, but would not have had enough to defend without a stunning knock from Marsh, and unlikely support from Bollinger.

Yeah, hence my last post. Still, with a bowling/fielding performance like that we'd win a lot of games

 

[wpdavid]

Well, Australia lost 5 or 6 on the trot before WC '07 and it didn't seem to do them too much harm...

They had a fair bit of history before that particular slump though.

 

[Spark]

And plus there was still the fact that you would expect that lineup to fire when it counted.

 

[Jacknife]

Beating SA was good, but we were hardly convincing against Aus, only winning against their 3rd string attack and losing comprehensively once Tait returned. Beyond that we beat Bang and Pak sans Asif and Amir? It's no great shakes really.

And even in this series, it wasn't just one game. In the 1st one, our openers were incredibly lucky to last as long as they did, the middle order were too poor to capitalise, and our attack barely threatened until it was too late.

Bottom line is that our default setting for the 50-over games is embarrasingly poor. Occasionally we show up, but it's by far the exception rather than the rule. Too many passengers, whoever ends up on the pitch for us.

Sure we were ****e today, but I can't see how you can say that tbh.But hey each to their own.

 

[Burgey]

I wouldn't say Australia is playing particularly well. Bailed out by Shaun Marsh (not in WC squad) and Bollinger today. Still a long way from peaking, let alone being dangerous.

Tbf it's both teams' second match in the format in months. England down on bowlers, we are down two batsmen. Just happy to see our blokes get a couple of results at all in this cursed summer.

Thank God the Ashes weren't played this year. We've been terrible

 

[TumTum]

Individual performances by Australia save the day again, wouldn't look to much into these wins especially because England are a dire ODI side.

 

[Jacknife]

Tbf it's both teams' second match in the format in months. England down on bowlers, we are down two batsmen. Just happy to see our blokes get a couple of results at all in this cursed summer.

Thank God the Ashes weren't played this year. We've been terrible

Yes, I agree with this.

 

[hazsa19]

Would be great to play 2 proper batsmen opening and Prior down at 7.