***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

[King_Ponting]

bring warnie on...............

 

[Adamc]

bring warnie on...............

Tell Warnie that, he's the captain.

 

[superkingdave]

dont think we'll see more than a few overs from Warne, he doesn't want to give the England batsmen too much of a look at him

 

[superkingdave]

he's on now

 

[King_Ponting]

my prediction is that he'll dismiss pieterson

 

[Scaly piscine]

Interesting that Flintoff batted ahead of Pietersen in this game, personally I'd rather have Pietersen batting ahead of Flintoff - Flintoff is too dense to realise he has to play himself in a lot of the time (similar to Geraint, but nowhere near as bad fortunately) and gets himself out lobbing the ball to the infield.

 

[superkingdave]

Flintoff is a world class number 5 ODI batsman, IMO he should stay there and Pietersen should move to 4 with Strauss opening

 

[superkingdave]

Pietersen opening up now

 

[Barney Rubble]

Flintoff is a world class number 5 ODI batsman, IMO he should stay there and Pietersen should move to 4 with Strauss opening

That's my view - with Collingwood at 6 and Jones (if he's going to stay in the team - I'd rather Prior came in, personally) at no7.

 

[marc71178]

Interesting that Flintoff batted ahead of Pietersen in this game, personally I'd rather have Pietersen batting ahead of Flintoff - Flintoff is too dense to realise he has to play himself in a lot of the time (similar to Geraint, but nowhere near as bad fortunately) and gets himself out lobbing the ball to the infield.

The same Flintoff who now bats very maturely in ODIs but then explodes at the end of the innings?

And look at just about every one of his tons.

 

[Scaly piscine]

The same Flintoff who now bats very maturely in ODIs but then explodes at the end of the innings?

And look at just about every one of his tons.

He gets himself out early on just as often as he 'bats very maturely'. That's why Pietersen, who I can't remember chipping the ball to the infield early on yet, did so well here and in SA.

 

[wpdavid]

7 down, and the same old same old story, with only 2 players contributing to an England oneday total.

 

[wpdavid]

The rubbish some people come out with ...
Listening to the BBC commentary, (I think it's him) Mark Nicholas is going on about how our batting tails off after number 7 and we need one more allrounder in the side. No Mark, what we need is more than 3 of our top 7 to make double figures. It would be interesting to look at their averages over the last 12 months' ODI's.

 

[superkingdave]

what are you listening to it on? the feed from the BBC website is Radio Solent and couple of locals are commentating

 

[superkingdave]

they do have Nicholasesque accents tho

 

[wpdavid]

what are you listening to it on? the feed from the BBC website is Radio Solent and couple of locals are commentating

Oh, OK. I just thought one of them sounds very like Nicholas.

 

[marc71178]

He gets himself out early on just as often as he 'bats very maturely'. That's why Pietersen, who I can't remember chipping the ball to the infield early on yet, did so well here and in SA.

Hmm, Flintoff since the Pakistan 2003 series (when he started to bat more maturely)

27 innings - 1092 @ 57.47, 3 tons, 7 fifties, dismissed in single figures 6 times.

Don't think there's anything to back that comment up.

 

[Adamc]

Maddy must've used up all his strike rate in the Twenty20 match, 0* off 14 so far...

 

[andyc]

Maddy must've used up all his strike rate in the Twenty20 match, 0* off 14 so far...

yeah, and lee's first 3 were all maidens...

 

[superkingdave]

Hampshire 0 for 2, Jones both wickets, strangley John Lewis in at number 3, Kenway got a golden, Lewis 3rd baller