*Official* Australia v England post-Ashes ODI series

[vic_orthdox]

Surely Lynn is best suited to opening in ODI format?

He's best at going super hard, he's not a great rotator of the strike - at least get his eye in against the quicks early.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah let him bomb away at the start imo. If they do that then Finch to three maybe and TPC four.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Smith was slagging off Maxwell in something I read today.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Yeah let him bomb away at the start imo. If they do that then Finch to three maybe and TPC four.

never happen

 

[stephen]

Smith was slagging off Maxwell in something I read today.

Smith and Lehmann are constantly making disparaging comments about Maxwell in the media. It's grotesque.

 

[Second Spitter]

Lynn is ruled out. If Maxi gets the nod, dressing room will be a bit awkward.

So.........Moises it is.

 

[Starfighter]

It'll be fun to see them get out of this one gracefully.

 

[Spikey]

lol they'll just pick shaun marsh.

 

[NUFAN]

Khawaja must be a decent chance. I would put him ahead of S Marsh. Short will get talked about quite a bit and I think Ashton Turner should be in the mix too.

Unless there is an injury, whoever is named will be a backup IMO.

 

[Second Spitter]

After watching Jhye & Tye in their last two BBL games, I have suddenly grown very pessimistic about the Aussies chances in this series.

 

[NUFAN]

Just saying that I mentioned Turner before this excellent knock started.

 

[Firebreaker]

What about Short?

 

[Furball]

lol they'll just pick shaun marsh.

Dunno if this is still the case but isn't Marsh quietly quite good at ODI's?

 

[Gob]

Dunno if this is still the case but isn't Marsh quietly quite good at ODI's?

He is but they tend to use younger players for the one dayers as project players ie Head

 

[Gob]

Smith and Lehmann are constantly making disparaging comments about Maxwell in the media. It's grotesque.

Smith tends to do that to others as well (Lyon last season)

As Steve Waugh pointed out that is an area he should improve. Keep the criticism in side closed doors.

 

[stephen]

Yeah I don't mind public attacks on the entire team if they play terribly ala post-Hobart but I don't really like publicly calling out individuals.

 

[Second Spitter]

Not mention it was undeserved. Maxwell is probably the fittest cricketer in Australia and the leading SS runs scorer. He has improved his technique in the long-form of the game more than any cricketer in the last 18 months. Suggesting he has to train :smarter: is completely unwarranted.

The :funky stuff: bit is even more stupid coming from Smith, whose technique is funkier than James Brown.

 

[Adders]

Not mention it was undeserved. Maxwell is probably the fittest cricketer in Australia and the leading SS runs scorer. He has improved his technique in the long-form of the game more than any cricketer in the last 18 months. Suggesting he has to train :smarter: is completely unwarranted.

The :funky stuff: bit is even more stupid coming from Smith, whose technique is funkier than James Brown.

I'm interested to know what is the basis for this claim?

Some cricketers training ethics are legendary, Ricky Ponting for eg was well known to always be first in and last out of any training session his entire career. Alastair Cook is mega fit, never ever been beaten in a beep test by anyone, and that includes some professional athletes from outside of cricket. But I can't say I've ever heard such things about Maxwell??

Edit:

I'm totally in agreement that these comments were poor by Smith and should never have been made publicly, but I'm also inclined to think in this case there is probably no smoke without fire.

 

[Second Spitter]

"Probably" based on the standard of his fielding, his running between the wickets, his observable stamina and his observable physique.

ftr I took the comments about "training smarter" to be in reference to his cricket skills rather than fitness levels. Nobody is going to convince me Ussie is fitter than Maxi.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I'm interested to know what is the basis for this claim?

Some cricketers training ethics are legendary, Ricky Ponting for eg was well known to always be first in and last out of any training session his entire career. Alastair Cook is mega fit, never ever been beaten in a beep test by anyone, and that includes some professional athletes from outside of cricket. But I can't say I've ever heard such things about Maxwell??

Edit:

I'm totally in agreement that these comments were poor by Smith and should never have been made publicly, but I'm also inclined to think in this case there is probably no smoke without fire.

I don't know if there is any "fire" tbh, just Smith blowing a bit of smoke because he doesn't like the guy

"Probably" based on the standard of his fielding, his running between the wickets, his observable stamina and his observable physique.

ftr I took the comments about "training smarter" to be in reference to his cricket skills rather than fitness levels. Nobody is going to convince me Ussie is fitter than Maxi.

Yeah it definitely had nothing to do with fitness. He gave the impression it was more to do with Maxwell practising all his reverse-sweeps and switch hits etc. a lot when Smith thinks he should just work on the basics.