*Official* Only ODI - Ireland v England

[theegyptian]

Taylor still looking like a guy who is never going to score runs through the offside.

Offside boundary alert for Taylor and a good shot.

Had more shots than Wright today. God that was a crap innings by Wright.

 

[Uppercut]

Murtaaaggggghhhhh

 

[Spikey]

Zimbabwe, Ireland and Australia. A day for the underdogs

 

[King Pietersen]

Great debuts for Carberry and Ballance. All set up for a match-winning Morgan ton.

 

[jackbyrne91]

Slow scoring putting pressure on the next batsmen.

Feeling the onus of the Flower/Giles regime here. Negative Cricket. See off both new balls.

Embarrassing.

 

[Uppercut]

Wow, that's some domestic record Ballance has.

 

[Cabinet96]

People could do well to remember this next time some idiot tells us Cook, Bell and Trott are too slow.

 

[Cabinet96]

This is awful again. What has happened to our mojo? Luke Wright opening the batting and is on 5 off 19 balls?

He scored 143 not out off 68 balls only two weeks ago.

Negative England at work again no doubt here. And Wright is out.

F*ck off Giles.

Slow scoring putting pressure on the next batsmen.

Feeling the onus of the Flower/Giles regime here. Negative Cricket. See off both new balls.

Embarrassing.

Oh dear.

 

[wpdavid]

Slow scoring putting pressure on the next batsmen.

Feeling the onus of the Flower/Giles regime here. Negative Cricket. See off both new balls.

Embarrassing.

It is, but you're over-analysing things. They're just not very good. We're being outclassed, actually.

 

[NasserFan207]

People could do well to remember this next time some idiot tells us Cook, Bell and Trott are too slow.

Yep, whatever you think about their attitude, all three are worldclass players. Carberry, Wright and Balance are not (although Balance is a good prospect IMO).

Anyway c'mon lads. Massive opportunity here.

 

[Spark]

This pitch is crazy slow.

 

[NasserFan207]

Wow, that's some domestic record Ballance has.

Indeed, although its somewhat boosted by playing in Zimbabwe for a while.

 

[jackbyrne91]

Oh dear.

Am I not allowed to have my opinion?

Ashley Giles fits in perfectly with the jobs for the boys campaign England currently have. We have played negative Cricket now for the past 9 months.

 

[Uppercut]

Am I not allowed to have my opinion?

Yeah but everyone else is also allowed to point out that it's the wrong one.

 

[MW1304]

The combination of playing an associate and so many guys either on debut or playing for a place/career is just leading to fear-filled cricket tbh. Can't say I'm surprised by this.

Ireland have been discplined though and that's all that was really needed.

 

[Uppercut]

This pitch is crazy slow.

I think it's more the bowling that's crazy slow. It just looked like a standard flat wicket when England were bowling.

 

[Prince EWS]

Wow, that's some domestic record Ballance has.

He is like Bradman in the Logan Cup so his FC record is a bit exaggerated.

 

[Pothas]

Oh dear.

Such a football fan mentality.

 

[Prince EWS]

I think it's more the bowling that's crazy slow. It just looked like a standard flat wicket when England were bowling.

If it looks crazy slow because Murtagh and Johnston are bowling on it then it'll go underground when Kevin O'Brien comes on. The opening bowlers really aren't that slow.

 

[Spark]

I think it's more the bowling that's crazy slow. It just looked like a standard flat wicket when England were bowling.

Nah I watched the end of the Ireland innings - it looked slow then too given how much some of those cutters were gripping. England just didn't bowl very well.