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***Official***Match #25- England vs Sri Lanka- October 26th-Bengaluru(D/N)#BottomDwellers

Burgey

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Have you turned into @chris.hinton???

This is gone, team look an utter mess. Not sure what's happened but something is seriously not right.
Yeah it isn’t even as though they’ve got a ton of old blokes like Aus does. It’s weird tstl. I know the emphasis went off it post-2019 but this is a crazy fall. In all seriousness, I wonder if the Stokes reinsertion had an effect on some blokes? I dunno. Seem all over the shop
 

R!TTER

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This is the first time I'm seeing collectively all the batsmen being out of nick at the same time.
They aren't all out of nick, play them in a bilateral series against the same opponents & they would probably win the series. It's the pressure of the World Cup.
 

Fuller Pilch

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Even more than seeing England struggle, a real highlight is seeing Angelo Mathews back and playing well in ODI cricket. It would be fantastic if he hits the winning runs in a few hours in hopefully our first really close game of the tournament.
 

kevinw

State Captain
This should be the end of the line for no rounders like Livingston and Moeen ali
End of the line for the entire top four and Mo. If Livingstone could actually bat with responsibility, I'd want to keep him, but he has no game awareness when he bats. Start with a new top order, but then who's actually playing 50 over cricket these days? Second XIs.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
What is? Didn't they rout NZ at home just last month? You're telling me it's nothing to do with the WC :unsure:
Given most of these players won the last one, and a bunch of them won the T20 one too, I’m going to say no, it’s not that
 

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah it isn’t even as though they’ve got a ton of old blokes like Aus does. It’s weird tstl. I know the emphasis went off it post-2019 but this is a crazy fall. In all seriousness, I wonder if the Stokes reinsertion had an effect on some blokes? I dunno. Seem all over the shop
I could buy the Stokes stuff if they hadn't just won the T20 doing the same trick. The bowling is not a surprise, it was highlighted as a potential weakness. But the batting is a mess, people getting out to nothing shots. They've talked about being more positive, that's hardly been the case today.
 

Prince EWS

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They aren't all out of nick, play them in a bilateral series against the same opponents & they would probably win the series. It's the pressure of the World Cup.
It's largely the same blokes who played at the last one and they were fine.

England took the preparation for that more seriously than any other side and they won. This time they've taken the preparation for it arguably less seriously than any other side and not done well. The margins are pretty tight in elite sport and that can happen - both ways.

The real quality of this team broadly over the last 6 years utlimately lies somewhere in between. But they're better than 8th or 9th in the world for sure.
 

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
We need to give credit to Sri Lanka who have bowled well after a poor 1st 5 overs (following a great 1st ball).

On paper they are one of the worst attacks (on a par with the Dutch and English), but have been good today.
 

Burgey

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I mean, he might actually say **** like that to the players. But getting up and just tearing into your own players publicly at the presser would be weird, especially when he's been super dire himself.
**** that. Do it.

“Johnny? Yeah he’s a ****! I’ll tell you why…”
 

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