*Official* Australia v England post-Ashes ODI series

[Spikey]

oh my god Paine is gonna bop one over long on off the last ball

 

[centurymaker]

Australia don't look like they can win the next world cup!

England on the other hand look like odds on favourites. Immense team (and in all conditions in limited overs)

 

[quincywagstaff]

Haven’t seen an Oz batsman with as limited hitting power since Dirk Wellham; just underlines it was mental laziness by the selectors to put Paine in the ODI side.

 

[vcs]

Win a couple more and England can claim the "Win more matches across Formats Trophy". Who cares about the Ashes after all.

 

[Spikey]

oh my god Paine is gonna bop one over long on off the last ball

mother****er couldn't even do this for me. piss off ****

 

[MW1304]

Buttler will get it, but Woakes is MotM.

Just quietly, this bowling attack looks stronger without Stokes in it.

 

[NUFAN]

The Buttler did it.

 

[Starfighter]

oh my god Paine is gonna bop one over long on off the last ball

Maybe not.

 

[Jarquis]

I talked about this in the BBL thread after some game but man oh man, batsman have to be more selfish with the strike in games like this

Yeah, it’s pretty dumb. If it was 4 off 1 required it’s pretty obvious who you’d rather on strike but when it’s 22 off 6 it’s different apparently. Unless of course you’re Jimmy Peirson/Brisbane Heat and then you just leave it to Doggett

 

[Jarquis]

Buttler will get it, but Woakes is MotM.

Just quietly, this bowling attack looks stronger without Stokes in it.

Hasn’t Bairstow really taken Stokes’s place?

We used to be picking 6 bowlers and now it’s only 5, hence Root having to bowl so much today

 

[vcs]

Also, TPC looked scratchy throughout his innings today. Never really got his timing going,

 

[Shri]

Lol Paine. Pulled a Dhoni.

 

[Starfighter]

Just checked and Paine's career s/r is 70. He's been around for a while but that really is not good enough for 2018.

 

[Days of Grace]

If it’s not bad enough for Australian fans, they have to listen to KP giggling hysterically on air. Fmd.

 

[Spark]

Proper red inker from Paine.

 

[Spikey]

honestly paine doing this a couple more times would be best for all

 

[MW1304]

Hasn’t Bairstow really taken Stokes’s place?

We used to be picking 6 bowlers and now it’s only 5, hence Root having to bowl so much today

He has yeah, but Root's taken his role as the 6th bowler and he hasn't weakened the attack at all tbh. Stokes' bowling in this format is often a burden as much as anything.

 

[Spark]

Also, TPC looked scratchy throughout his innings today. Never really got his timing going,

He said after the Ashes that he didn't actually feel like he was in particularly good form, he was just in a good mental space, but he was some way off wrt his timing and ball striking. Definitely looked that way today.

 

[ajdude]

Haven’t seen an Oz batsman with as limited hitting power since Dirk Wellham; just underlines it was mental laziness by the selectors to put Paine in the ODI side.

i just don't get it because he seemed to hit the ball just fine when opening for hobart last season. is it simply a hard new ball thing?

 

[Spark]

Anyway it's probably not the worst thing for everyone to wake up and realise that this side is **** now, not in a year.