*Official* 3rd ODI at Edgbaston

[Furball]

[Hooksey]

Adam Voges says the improved batting by the Aussies is due to the belief Boof is showing in them and the freedom in which he is allowing them to play.

Probably says more about Mickey Arthur than it does about Darren Lehmann.

[MW1304]

I think it may have something to do with England having one limited overs bowler too.

[Hooksey]

I think it may have something to do with England having one limited overs bowler too.

60 million people and you can only find one limited overs bowler?

We have about a 1/3 of your population and a "bowlers back" epidemic

[Burgey]

Apparently a bright enough morning forecast, then cloudy with a few showers in the arvo.

As the Ashes tour moves onto its third Australian Prime Minister, we're expecting a blamy top of 14 in Brum, which is awful.

Brum I mean, not the forecast.

[Spikey]

Adam Voges says the improved batting by the Aussies is due to the belief Boof is showing in them and the freedom in which he is allowing them to play.

Probably says more about Mickey Arthur than it does about Darren Lehmann.

there's absolutely no improved batting

[Hooksey]

there's absolutely no improved batting

Clarke & Bailey struggled along in the last match I guess. Still, improvement might be just around the corner

[wiff]

there's absolutely no improved batting

Maybe not, but we've certainly improved on straw clutching.

Players clutching at ashes:

Australia:
Aaron Finch,
Shaun Marsh
George Bailey
Adam Voges
James Faulkner
Mitchell Johnson
Clint McKay
Fawad Ahmed


England:
James Tredwell

[Spikey]

Clarke & Bailey struggled along in the last match I guess. Still, improvement might be just around the corner

clarke and bailey played good ODI innings under Arthur. Finch played a low sample amount of matches under Arthur. Voges returned to the ODI team under Arthur. Marsh is still Marsh. There's no real improvement. Voges just towed the party line like players always do. It says more about him than it does Arthur.

[Hooksey]

clarke and bailey played good ODI innings under Arthur. Finch played a low sample amount of matches under Arthur. Voges returned to the ODI team under Arthur. Marsh is still Marsh. There's no real improvement. Voges just towed the party line like players always do. It says more about him than it does Arthur.

"Voges just towed the party line like players always do" ??

Like when all the players filled out the questionnaire so diligently for Mickey

[wiff]

They were just towing a different party.

[NUFAN]

Maybe not, but we've certainly improved on straw clutching.

Players clutching at ashes:

Australia:
Aaron Finch,
Shaun Marsh
George Bailey
Adam Voges
James Faulkner
Mitchell Johnson
Clint McKay
Fawad Ahmed


England:
James Tredwell

How ****ing long is a piece of straw if Finch and McKay are clutching at it?

[Spikey]

"Voges just towed the party line like players always do" ??

Like when all the players filled out the questionnaire so diligently for Mickey

if the homework had to be filled out in front of a media pack it would have been done....

[wiff]

How ****ing long is a piece of straw if Finch and McKay are clutching at it?

It's long and it's dangly.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spor...-1226714819043

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine...ry/669357.html
"However, in Test and first-class cricket very few players are willing to embrace equally the disparate ambitions of personal success and entertaining the crowd. After such a brutal display of hitting, it's natural to wonder: why can't Finch do better in longer forms of the game?"

[Hooksey]

if the homework had to be filled out in front of a media pack it would have been done....

Just one of Mickey Arthur's many mistakes not insisting it was done in front of the media then