Yes it’s the only way to win white ball matches . You have a kind of weighting system where when a team scores over 350 runs you compare their 10 lowest scoring overs against the best highest scoring overs of a team scoring less than 200. Even then England would still lose most of the time.
Quite fascinating what doesn't. My old Ford ****** gets filtered, but I quite readily call the filter a wanker with abandon!
I take the old fashioned view that the best players are those playing in test cricket and when you have a team scoring in tests at one day runs per over then stick with those players. As far as Robinson is concerned his economy rate is generally excellent and he is also a useful batter averaging I think around 25. I just think he’s a better bowler than Atkinson for instance.
There are far many teams in blue and there's no blue on the English flag. England should play in red as the games are played with a white ball.
This is exactly the view which kept England **** at white ball cricket
England's uniform should be this combination. Then they'd be ready for the beach, the shops, and the plane.
In those days England were not playing Bazball in test matches
One point of Bazball is that they try to take wickets. England is the only one of the historically top 8 ODI teams never to have a great ODI bowler.
Flintoff would be close to a great. His peak didn't last very long though
True.
*Tied them something
I checked the Top 20 ODI bowlers of all time and Bob Willis is ranked 11.
Anderson took 269 wickets from 194 ODI's (Top 25 all time wicket takers), that's only 24 wickets less than Warne took from exactly the same number of matches. Gough's 235 wickets @26 stack up pretty well in the table too.
Those England bowlers from that era might not be all time greats. But as a bowling unit they’ve stood up when it’s mattered look at 2019 World Cup semis and finals and got England chasing reasonable totals. Last years t20 World Cup final they got Pakistan out in a way under par score. He’ll theyd even have that 2016 t20 title if stokes didn’t choke it away.
But would the 2019 team have won the World Cup in any other country? I suspect if this World Cup was in England, you'd see this bowling line up causing rather more problems to opposition - we know how Woakes works for starters.
