6th Match - England v South Africa (18th March)

[LegionOfBrad]

Wow! I'm shocked this is the best England can offer in the bowling department.

Sometimes you just get beat by a better team - but 90% of the whole innings was complete dross.

It isn't, we have two injured and the others not getting picked.

 

[LightningStrike]

Another one-sided boring game coming up?

Can't see signs of any Dews to help England.

 

[Stace]

Will Hill offering 5/1 on Tahir to take 3 wickets or more, must be a cert as England have to attack every bowler.

 

[King Pietersen]

Jordan T20 economy of 8.5 overall and 9 in international. Not the best.

Did you not see the super over he bowled? Jordan is awesome. He bowls yorkers. #SelectorThoughts

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Jordan T20 economy of 8.5 overall and 9 in international. Not the best.

Not bad. Expected something like 10

 

[King Pietersen]

England, by the way, have now conceded three of the six highest T20 international scores in history.

Brilliant.

 

[Black_Warrior]

And Jordan is apparently the yorker specialist in death overs.

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah, bowling attack was always a massive weakness but that was beyond the pale. Dire.

 

[LightningStrike]

It isn't, we have two injured and the others not getting picked.

Who are they?

Where's Ravi Bopara?

 

[Pratters]

Brilliant.

Most of the others are versus associate nations.

 

[Zinzan]

England must have better T20 bowlers somewhere in the country, surely.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Half of Jordan's 3 overs went into or over the ropes. Impressive.

20 fours and 13 sixes in the innings.

 

[Pratters]

And Jordan is apparently the yorker specialist in death overs.

He was quite erratic in the test series v Windies a few months back. He always has promise but there is little consistency.

 

[King Pietersen]

Could be worse. Could have Denly, Cook and Trott to start the chase.

2nd T20I: South Africa v England at Centurion, Nov 15, 2009 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[LightningStrike]

England must have better T20 bowlers somewhere in the country, surely.

I'll have to check my T20 Blast fantasy stats from last season. From memory I'm sure I had a couple of cheap options that did really well and weren't overseas.

 

[King Pietersen]

#BringBackJade

 

[LightningStrike]

 

[LightningStrike]

#BringBackJade

I think she's dead.

 

[Black_Warrior]

That was comprehensively inept from England. . You can tell the lack of experience, exposure and the sense you develop through playing tons of matches.
The number of dropped catches and just plain fielding mishaps such as Moeen failing to offer back up to the throw or Hales letting through a boundary off Root. It's been a while since I have seen such an allround inept performance

You have to know how to come back from situations like these. The first six overs were brutal but it has happened before. Experienced teams wouldn't have panicked and then started making numerous fielding blunders. West Indies also conceded 231 against this side once but they didn't panic. They came back and chased it down.

Now, even if this total is chase able, England might not end up batting at their best, because they are so mentally scarred.

 

[Niall]

I'll have to check my T20 Blast fantasy stats from last season. From memory I'm sure I had a couple of cheap options that did really well and weren't overseas.

They don't though, Mills has potential but always injured, Chris Wood is good, but he would probably not have enough pace to avoid a hammering here, Mark Wood and Finn are monster losses.

Parry to be fair might have made a difference, but nobody else really you'd back not to get hammered here.