2nd Match - Australia v England

[flibbertyjibber]

Ballance did better than Ravi would have, got his 10 runs in about half the time.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

border probably makes a good point re England being essentially a year behind in their recent team selections

We are but this is England and a world cup we are talking about. Planning doesn't happen.

 

[Cabinet96]

Reckon England will change their batting lineup, if just the order, for the next game. Incredible how you can have a really settled side then decide to change one player for the sake of it, **** it up, meaning you have to spend the whole tournament chopping and changing AGAIN.

 

[wpdavid]

border probably makes a good point re England being essentially a year behind in their recent team selections

True, but 12 months ago they may have still figured that Trott & KP would be in the side. And Cook's form in these games hadn't been in long-term decline by then.

 

[Cabinet96]

England are kind of 18 months late in a way. They peaked for the Champions Trophy, which they should've won.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Start the car

 

[Spikey]

hahahahaha marsh has two wickets. get into your team bus and drive it into the ocean you dumb ****s

 

[Cabinet96]

ffs

 

[Spark]

It's a very Ian Bell thing to do to manage to pick out the only fielder in that postcode

 

[WalkingWicket]

I'd actually rather go out and buy milk for my breakfast now than watch this.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Warner/Bailey/Finch would've got that one to drop a few inches away from a floppy England fielder.

 

[Spikey]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha

 

[Cabinet96]

You ****.

 

[Jayzamann]

Can hear the crowd now.

 

[WalkingWicket]

oh f****** hell

 

[OverratedSanity]

Lololololololololol

 

[Cabinet96]

This could actually get so nasty.

 

[wpdavid]

Bell really isn't the smartest cookie in the jar, is he. Never has been, actually.

EDIT
Missed Root going as well.

My prediction of a 200 run margin is looking pretty safe from here.

For all the legitimate criticisms that can be made of the selections, they can't really be expected to make a silk purse out of the sows' ears that our wonderful domestic game routinely produces. They're just hopeless, because quality really isn't a priority for most of the counties.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

What a pathetic performance. From ball 1.

 

[Antihippy]

Ffs england.

I was expecting to watch a cricket match.