*Official* 8th massacre at the SCG

[benchmark00]

Really sounds like a nice bloke Bailey. In the Gilchrist mould.

 

[uvelocity]

Really sounds like a nice bloke Bailey. In the Gilchrist mould.

a regular anti-benchmark00

 

[Riggins]

too bad he can't bat, really.

 

[benchmark00]

too bad he can't bat, really.

Yeah, but don't be blinkered, he wasn't picked on the back of one day cricket. He was smashing them in shield last summer and this summer.

 

[ajdude]

gonna be a good commentator tbh.

 

[Riggins]

All I know is hitting Jimmy Anderson for 28 off that over proved once and for all that he was clearly test class.

 

[benchmark00]

Gravy's strike rotation has been impressive tbh.

 

[benchmark00]

gonna be a good commentator tbh.

Too good of a bloke and too calm.

 

[ajdude]

Too good of a bloke and too calm.

i was talking about george, not myself.

 

[uvelocity]

yeah thats good strike rotation over cover there

 

[uvelocity]

bommer

 

[ajdude]

yeah thats good strike rotation over cover there

followed it up by permanently rotating the strike.

 

[benchmark00]

Inappropriate ***ual reference re: bubbles.

 

[ajdude]

i hope one day there's an ODI where a team bowls another side out with 5 bowlers having figures of 10-2-30-2 and then chasing the 150ish score 3 down with all 5 batsmen making 30ish. like who would get man of the match

 

[uvelocity]

i hope one day there's an ODI where a team bowls another side out with 5 bowlers having figures of 10-2-30-2 and then chasing the 150ish score 3 down with all 5 batsmen making 30ish. like who would get man of the match

steve smith

 

[benchmark00]

Does anyone take 3+ catches along with scoring 30?

 

[King Pietersen]

Eugh. England's batting miserable again. Far too reliant on Morgan and Buttler firing at the end of the innings. If one, or both fail before the end, we're knackered. Buttler's been pigeon-holed as this end of the innings slogger, when really, he'd do a much better job up the order than most of the batsmen. I'd like to see him put in at 5, and given chance to build an innings, then explode at the end. He's done it so many times for Somerset, and is fantastic at playing the match situation. It just doesn't make the most of his immense talent chucking him in around the 40th over every single ODi innings. Also, with Pietersen out, your best player should be batting 3. Ben Stokes is not our best batsman, Eoin Morgan is, and should be given the responsibility of batting 3 and given the opportunity to score more hundreds and really set up a huge innings. Morgan at 3 would give us a much more positive start whilst not being a slogger. My top 7 would be:

Cook
Bell/Carberry
Morgan
Ballance
Buttler +
Stokes
Bopara

Bopara last summer was immense coming in at the end and really having a go. He's much more likely to fire when he has to start quickly. If you give Bopara time to bat, he takes too much time, and ends up getting stuck not being able to find any timing. Putting him in at 7 means he'd likely be coming in during the final 10 overs, and would be given a license to just fire from the get go. I think it's much better balanced, and would be much more likely of producing large scores consistently.

 

[benchmark00]

You can't play one day cricket without 3 openers, that's the new rules. That's why even if England bowl Australia out less than their total tonight the match will be awarded to Australia on a technicality.

 

[GIMH]

Just seen the Clarke/Morgan confrontation. Clarke is becoming a right wanker isn't he.

 

[uvelocity]

nah, morgan was being a wanker, he knew it carried and was hoping to send it upstairs for a ****up from the 3rd ump imo