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*Official* Australia in England T20s and ODIs

Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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zinzan12 said:
As I always do when following a cricket game on cricinfo, just checking England's live career stats and must say I'm surprised just how incredibly ordinary they are even considering their missing KP & AF.

In today's lineup, no batsman other than Luke Wright has a batting SR above 80,(Wright's
being an impressive 101) and of their bowler's, none have a bowling Econ of 4.5 or less with the exception of Rasid & Strauss who don't really qualify for judgement considering they've bowled a grand total of 5 overs between them.

Not to mention only 3 batsmen average over 30, the best being Collingwood's 34.46, while admittedly 3 of their bowlers Broad, Swann & Sidebum have better than decent bowling averages.

But overall much worse than I expected from England
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What's really inexcusable, though, is how none of their List A records are actually much better. It's not like the selectors have backed players who deserve a proper chance to adjust - they're backing players they picked on nothing more than a hunch two or three seasons ago who performed poorly in county cricket and have unsurprisingly backed that up in ODI cricket.

Luke Wright's a good example - you could argue his poor ODI record is worth overlooking given he bats up and down the order all the time with strange and inconsistent roles and needs to be given a chance to find his niche as such, but when the man averages 21 with the bat domestically and has taken 81 wickets @ 37 in 108 List A games, he doesn't deserve any selector patience. Matt Prior likewise.
 
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Noble One

Noble One

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Did I just hear that Luke Wright is being considered for South Africa? As the new Flintoff?
 
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Noble One said:
Did I just hear that Luke Wright is being considered for South Africa? As the new Flintoff?
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Obviously has some keeping skills that we havent seen yet because his all-round status couldnt possibly be because of his bowling
 
inbox24

inbox24

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Australia should take a leaf out of India's book and look to attack and put pressure on the part timers instead of just drifting off 4 runs an over. If this continues, when we do lose a wicket, we'll be runs down and there will be no way we can make a decent score on this 300+ wicket.
 
Zinzan

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Haha, was just in the process of writing a post on how good Watson's looked today, so sorry Aussie fans, can blame me for that
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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Good innings from White so far. I thought three was at least one spot too high for him, particularly coming in after one of the openers went for a duck, but he's looked really assured. He cops a lot of criticism, mainly from Australians, but while I'd rather have Voges in the team I don't think he's that bad as an one-day bat. As long as he doesn't get picked as an allrounder (or heaven forbid, a bowler) I'm fine with him being in the team.
 
inbox24

inbox24

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Pathetic batting effort to be honest. Ball's not swinging, no quality bowlers and no massive demons in the pitch, yet they manage to score at 4.5 rpo on a 350 pitch. Disgusting really.
 
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