England 'A' in the UAE etc

[twctopcat]

Another good knock by Prior and Solanki yesterday, lets hope they fare as well in SL.

 

[chris.hinton]

Great Knock from Vikram

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Having seen both bat Prior looks a little better than a slogger and Ambrose looks a very fine strokeplaying batsman.
Both are excellent wicketkeepers.

Doesnt Ambrose want to play for Australia and not England though? that case alone should put Prior in ahead...wont happen though

 

[Richard]

but they ALWAYS do poorly

No, they don't
Rikki Clarke just always does poorly in limited-overs matches - he's certainly not anywhere near as poor in the First-Class game as he is in ODers.

 

[Richard]

Doesnt Ambrose want to play for Australia and not England though?

I certainly hope not - haven't heard.
If so, he'd do well to get himself out of county cricket and into state cricket.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Another ton for Bell in the 4 day game with SL A. A couple of half-centuries for Cook and Shah. Clarke scored 4...

 

[marc71178]

But I bet it was a classy 4 full of great batting!

 

[chris.hinton]

bell must have had a greak Knock today but then again he should be in the test Side or in the 13

 

[Magrat Garlick]

But I bet it was a classy 4 full of great batting!

One four, nineteen dot balls

 

[Marcus]

Bell = the final piece, his batting is perfect and will really if selected be benificail vs the austarlians, pieterson and bell have shown there worth for the summer....lets thrash bangladesh, then mash the aussies

 

[Neil Pickup]

One four, nineteen dot balls

Eighteen dot balls. One wicket ball.

 

[Marcus]

whos this harrison batting now?

 

[Neil Pickup]

whos this harrison batting now?

David Harrison. Glamorgan seamer. Night Watchman.

 

[twctopcat]

I'm still inclined Bell over Pietersen, though i don't know why. I wish we played SA instead of Bangladesh in april with kp and bell because we won't learn much from playing the tigers, will still be a stab in the dark for the ashes.

 

[superkingdave]

Great first day for England, thought we might be in trouble in SL, iirc the A side toured England last summer and were pretty dominant. Remains to be seen how we'll be able to tame their batting though.

Great knock from Rikki

 

[BoyBrumby]

Small observation, when I saw 272-4 off 90 overs on Sky Sports News just now I thought "Oh, slow scoring chaps", but it's actually still over 3 per over.

The Oz batting of the last five years has really effected a sea-change in cricket.

 

[steds]

No, they don't
Rikki Clarke just always does poorly in limited-overs matches - he's certainly not anywhere near as poor in the First-Class game as he is in ODers.

You're right! How could i doubt anyone with a first class economy of over 4?

 

[chris.hinton]

3 an over is slow

 

[superkingdave]

Looking at some of Sri Lanka's players their batting doesn't look that strong, the team doesn't contain any players with a FC average over 35, compared to Bell, Shah, Prior, Powell, Solanki, Cook, heck even Rikki Clarke in the England squad

 

[superkingdave]

You're right! How could i doubt anyone with a first class economy of over 4?

think the fact that he averages over 37 with the bat suggests where his strengths lie