Scaly piscine
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Another friggin no-ball from pedalo boy. Sounds like some interesting decisions in this over.
They're definitely not "unbeatable". There are 3 sides that are more than capable, hell even England beat them twice in 2 games not long ago...right now australia really looks unbeatable...
England didn't have KP either, obviously England beat them three times in a row but only two of them mattered to Australia.yeah...not a full strengthen one...SA looked like the team that could beat them but they lost by nearly 100 runs...who do you think are capable of beating australia int here best whilst the other team playing at its best too?
That's complete sloblock. They were missing Symonds and only Symonds from their full strength XI. Even now they're missing Lee.england didn't have kp but australia were like half strength plus did you not see how they dismissed england in the warm up and how the dismissed every team in his tournament so far? i just hope they dont score win to toss to be able to bat to 300...but also hope they dont bowl 'em out less than 200
Jon Lewis was out as well, not that it matters when Mahmood has something incriminating on Fletcher. Mahmood is fast becoming England's Mohammed Sami
As shown by the form batsman being neither of the ones you've mentioned.I think the current English team reminds me of Indian team of the past which was equally dependent on Sachin Tendulkar like England are on Freddie and KP.
Who exactly is there though?Gee, our openers are sooooooo ****e. I know the selectors weren't helped by Tres' troubles, but surely there's better options around.
Because his results are better when everything the rankings take into account are considered?Can't really understand how KP is ranked no.1 in the ICC batsmen rankings ahead of Ponting.
They have a young team as well i think, so the experience from the super 8's willc ertainly help them against the other 'minnows' when they play them between now and the next WC too.Ireland were pretty good again last night, I thought. Definitely the most well-rounded and impressive minnow team I've seen in a WC outside of Kenya, and not too far off them either. Rankin's the best seamer outside of the test nations and could be a handy domestic cricketer in most nations, and they've got at least 3 or 4 pretty decent batsmen and a good spinner. I like Johnston's batting too, though his bowling isn't that good.
The main thing they lack is the experience and polish that your average test nation takes for granted. They just had no idea how to milk the spinners for 4 or 5 singles an over in the 20-40 over period, and that ended any chance of a successful chase. Some of that goes down to some good work from Panesar and Vaughan and good field placings, but a lot of it was just inexperience IMO. Same applies to fielding and other things like that. Given the sorts of players they'd produced recently, they should be better next WC.
3 times in 3 actually.They're definitely not "unbeatable". There are 3 sides that are more than capable, hell even England beat them twice in 2 games not long ago