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*Official* India Tour of England 2018
- Thread starter harsh.ag
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Howe_zat
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Pandya lobbing wides. Very annoying.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
A fair reflection of the sides in Odis in England.
MW1304
Cricketer Of The Year
Thakur too. What a pair of meanies.
Root to go for the six here, only for it to fall short and finish the game off with a four.
SillyCowCorner1
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Pandya being a dick right now..
artvandalay
State Vice-Captain
This could have been a 5 match jamodi series.
Steal, you're making it sound like its the first time you're saying it - which might also be true!
theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
It certainly keeps the 'England can't win on anything but roads' and 'England have no chance of winning the world cup with this bowling' brigade silent, at least for the time being.
I think it's important for England's preparations for the next world cup. Could easily face India in a semi or final. If they'd collapsed against Yadav again it wouldn't do much for the confidence.
wpdavid
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theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
They don't really need to bowl well consistently. They've more or less won most ODI series over the last few years with the same bowling lineup. Bowl ok, and bat well has been winning them more games than not.
Additionally there are no outstanding teams going into 2019. They've just beaten India and Aus at home, who are bookies 2nd and 3rd favorites for the tournament.
Plus England (or any side) only need to win two knockout games to win the tournament.
Sure their bowling is average, and there is no outstanding individual bowler. They won't defend 250 very often, but the good news for them is they tend to bang out 300+ even on average days.
You talk about England's limitations (which they have plenty of) but what of India or Australia. Somebody has to win it. England have as good a chance as any imo.
It's certainly showing signs of improvement in the last year I think. They bowled really well today, and although you might argue that they were flattered by poor batting towards the end by India in the 2nd ODI, we still put them into a situation where they were 5 wickets down and needed 8/9 an over with 15 overs left. I believe we'd have seen that game through with the way we bowled even if Dhoni had not played so strangely.
Hopefully, it's only going to become stronger once Chris Woakes is back as well. He'd probably replace Wood in the starting XI, albeit he bowled very well today. Problem is he's not doing it consistently enough to leave Woakes out.