*Official* England in Australia (2 T20 & 7 ODIs)

[pup11]

Fmd....

 

[King Pietersen]

The most boring man in Cricket. WAG.

 

[andyc]

Phwoar, big hit from the big lad there.

Give Smith a bowl FFS.

 

[Spark]

At last.

 

[King Pietersen]

Watto. WAC. Promote Finn to number 5 TBH.

 

[MW1304]

Swanny will be loving this.

Edit: Dammit Finn

 

[M0rphin3]

Watto!

 

[morgieb]

****, finally. Australia should not do that - against the good sides it just won't do.

 

[NZ Guy]

My bad, switched over from the tennis because it was getting closeish. the first ball I saw was the last ball

 

[pup11]

Surprise.... Surprise...someone actually bowled at the stumps and it resulted in a wicket!!

 

[Burgey]

Daresay had a proper batsman been there I reckon England could well have given us a real scare. As it is they're probably just scoring runs to get England some creditability but still is hard to get the win.

Daresay if a proper batsman was there we wouldn't have bowled four bouncers per over in an attempt to hit Anderson in his concave sternum.

 

[vcs]

Around 2008, when England were struggling, KP invariably used to be the one to bail them out. Nowadays, he makes the sporadic big scores, but rarely does anything when the team is in strife.

 

[Spark]

Yeah that's a fair point. It's pretty obvious when we've got 10/11 at the crease with plenty to get then we just switch off mentally.

 

[marc71178]

England's ODI batting in fine fettle I see. Atleast they are not making the mistake of peaking too soon.

It's all part of a plan

 

[vcs]

It's all part of a plan

Haha I've posted that link somewhere here before. All these ODI series are sooo dull.

 

[BoyBrumby]

That still doesn't explain anything....there's no conceivable reason why he would ask the umpire to go upstairs if he knew he hadn't caught it

Well, that's not true. There's obviously one conceivable reason. Not suggesting Smith was guilty of it, but he wouldn't be the first sportsman to try it on if he were.

Anyway, what a bag of jizz. It doesn't seem to matter which bowlers we put out, first game aside we've generally done pretty well in containing Oz, but our batting is shocking. I'm not particularly suprprised but the sheer rank inadequacy of both our plan and execution is enervating.

The jolly last wicket slogging showed there were no demons in the pitch. Gah. Hideous.

 

[Spark]

Just to note, I don't think I've ever seen a bigger reception for a 50 from a top order bat than Clarke got than when he got out. Sums it up, really.

 

[Jono]

Lol at there still being two more matches of this series to come.

 

[thierry henry]

Well, that's not true. There's obviously one conceivable reason. Not suggesting Smith was guilty of it, but he wouldn't be the first sportsman to try it on if he were.

What? The 3rd umpire giving it out on the basis that they couldn't see anything?

 

[social]

Really dont get Prior's batting "plan" of just basically leaving his brain in the shed

The guy is obviously a good player and could score somewhat quickly by simply playing "normal" cricket shots