***Official*** Australia in Ireland and England 2015 (limited overs)

[Furball]

Moeen should be top 3 or not at all; too boundary reliant IMO. I'd be rolling with:

Roy
Moeen
Root
Taylor
Morgan
Buttler
Stokes/Willey/Woakes

I could be talked into swapping Taylor and Root but that's what I'm rolling with anyway.

Root at 4 IMO. Have no basis for saying that other than gut feel mind.

 

[Furball]

Strange comments from Moody here. Surely you want the set batsmen to keep the board ticking over and give the strike to the hitters down the order?

Have also seen no evidence that Taylor can't shift up gears. You don't need to constantly be trying to hit the ball into the stands to score quickly.

 

[weldone]

Moeen should be top 3 or not at all; too boundary reliant IMO. I'd be rolling with:

Roy
Moeen
Root
Taylor
Morgan
Buttler
Stokes/Willey/Woakes

I could be talked into swapping Taylor and Root but that's what I'm rolling with anyway.

Morgan has done too well since he's moved to 4. I wouldn't move him from there.

 

[Prince EWS]

Root at 4 IMO. Have no basis for saying that other than gut feel mind.

Yeah I just see Taylor more as a good middle overs accumulator than as someone well-equipped to tackle good new ball bowling so I've stuck him at four, but it's the more defensive way of looking at it really. If the top order actually does well then #4 will need to accelerate the innings which Root is more equipped to do than Taylor.

 

[Spark]

This is a bit rigid from Smith.

 

[wpdavid]

Shame as no-one else has looked like doing much since Morgan went. Decent fielding though.

 

[Furball]

Yeah I just see Taylor more as a good middle overs accumulator than as someone well-equipped to tackle good new ball bowling so I've stuck him at four, but it's the more defensive way of looking at it really. If the top order actually does well then #4 will need to accelerate the innings which Root is more equipped to do than Taylor.

That's clearly what Hales is there for. Vital innings to blunt the shine of the new ball to allow the middle order a platform

 

[Spark]

Man, Burns missed that throw by about two metres...

 

[WalkingWicket]

God, this is like the reverse of England's old ODI tactics - score rapidly at the beginning and lose loads of wickets at the end...

 

[wpdavid]

Village green stuff again. Most sides would be pushing 350 from where we got to before Morgan went. We'll be lucky to pass 300 at this rate.

 

[WalkingWicket]

Great knock James shame you practically strangled our innings in the process.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

Not even getting to 300 is criminal here.

 

[weldone]

Excellent 10 overs from Cummins given the pitch

 

[weldone]

That's a very good ODI from Taylor knock for the early 1990s

He's been ok I guess; he's done his job. End over scoring was the job of Stokes, Bairstow, Ali who all failed.

 

[Stace]

Great knock James shame you practically strangled our innings in the process.

How? He held the innings together, rotated the strike to let everyone play around him, there is still room for that kind of innings still.

 

[weldone]

The worst thing is if England win this James Taylor may get MoM ahead of Morgan - and that will be unfair.

 

[Burner]

A century at a SR of 88 with only five fours is amazing, and I think England might just win this game even though they could have scored 30-40 runs more.

 

[Furball]

Taylor's scored his last 50 runs at roughly a run a ball.

If you want to point the finger for the team only getting 300, there's a whole heap of failures in the lower middle order for that.

 

[Furball]

The worst thing is if England win this James Taylor may get MoM ahead of Morgan - and that will be unfair.

 

[King Pietersen]

Taylor not the issue with that innings. Lower middle-order all failed, with Stokes and Bairstow getting starts and getting out. 100 off 114 is a very good platform, and if the blokes at the lower end of the order had done their job we'd have made way more.