*Official* Australia v England post-Ashes ODI series

[Stapel]

I was thinking MMarsh would be injured. But with 9 runs to defend, here he is...... With Head, Stoinis & Finch bowling ahead of him, one really has to wonder......

 

[Spark]

I was thinking MMarsh would be injured. But with 9 runs to defend, here he is...... With Head, Stoinis & Finch bowling ahead of him, one really has to wonder......

Smith is obsessed with left arm slow filth in the middle orders of the ODIs. It's not the first time he's done similar.

 

[Spark]

stoinis has had a good game /s

 

[Daemon]

Incredible that Head bowled 3 spells and sucked in all of them, yet was never taken off for Marsh. Somehow the think tank have decided they're not looking at Marsh as an all rounder in the format. Even in the previous game he only bowled 2.

 

[Starfighter]

Well that's it. Our batting just wasn't good enough in the later part of the innings. Bowling wasn't great either.

 

[Burgey]

Absoout disgrace

 

[Spark]

Well that's it. Our batting just wasn't good enough in the later part of the innings. Bowling wasn't great either.

if you call the entire second half of the innings "the later part" sure

 

[flibbertyjibber]

All too easy.

 

[vogue]

Nice 4 to finish. Good stuff. Can’t believe they play the next one on Sunday. Not much time off .

 

[Stapel]

Woakes preventing Root to get to fifty, so we can't complain about Root not converting once again. Proper gentleman, that Woakes.

 

[ImpatientLime]

absolutely gutted we didn't get to see plunkett come out and give it some welly.

by far the most entertaining batsman in this side.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Incredible that Head bowled 3 spells and sucked in all of them, yet was never taken off for Marsh. Somehow the think tank have decided they're not looking at Marsh as an all rounder in the format. Even in the previous game he only bowled 2.

Smith is desperately trying to find reasons to keep Head in the team

 

[quincywagstaff]

Don’t think Oz have ever been whitewashed in a home Head-to-Head ODI series but they look a chance here. Selection was a mess and their poor play in away ODIS now carrying through here.

England very impressive; probably a bit sloppy in losing a couple of their wickets more than they should’ve but otherwise a terrific performance.

 

[Groundking]

Well I assume Bairstow is opening, in which case he isn't an anchor at all.

Even still, you don't need 2 anchors in the team when we've got Root who goes at a similar rate but averages almost 10 runs more, and 30 in the past 2 years.

 

[Spark]

Don’t think Oz have ever been whitewashed in a home Head-to-Head ODI series but they look a chance here. Selection was a mess and their poor play in away ODIS now carrying through here.

England very impressive; probably a bit sloppy in losing a couple of their wickets more than they should’ve but otherwise a terrific performance.

Looks a big gap between the sides tbh. I said right at the start of this thread that England should win this series comfortably, but I didn't think it'd be quite this comfortable.

 

[Starfighter]

Always surprises me how good Head's figures are considering he looks like crap in four of five innings.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Big winner from that match was Nathan Lyon.

 

[91Jmay]

Hypocaust: "Joe Root now has the 3rd highest average (87.06) in victorious ODI chases (min. 20 innings), behind Dhoni (102.72) and Kohli (93.64) and just ahead of Bevan (86.25)."

Good

 

[Spark]

Big winner from that match was Nathan Lyon.

Glenn Maxwell? Impossible to see how he couldn't do Head's job better than this.

Not that it'll make any difference, mind...

 

[91Jmay]

Smith is desperately trying to find reasons to keep Head in the team

He likes Head, can't blame him.

If you have a name as silly as Stoinis you must perform.