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*Official* VB Series Thread
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age_master
Hall of Fame Member
england will have to play 1000000000% better than they have so far this summer to stand a chance unfortunatley, a competitive game would be nice
wahindiawah
Banned
I don't think England have any chance, unless Australia decides to throw the match for some strange reasons!
age_master
Hall of Fame Member
hopefully but it is a powerful Aussie side too
The Argonaut
State Vice-Captain
So far so good for the Poms. Win the toss, bat and smash the bowling. Trescothick starts with a better than a run a ball 50. Entertaining stuff to say the least. Let's hope it continues and we can see a close game for a change.
age_master
Hall of Fame Member
they have had another mini collapse 6/230
warrioryohannan
U19 Cricketer
Impressive performance by England batsmen, particularly by the openers.Though there was a batting collapse yet 251 is a defendable score, England now have a good chance of winning the match, but it won't be easy against the Aussies.
Top_Cat
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Aussies 2/189 in the 33rd. Hayden about to get his hundred.
Correction just as I type that has holed out at mid-off.
He's doing a Mark Waugh; increasin his top score by one run every time. It was 97 now it's 98.
At this rate he should score his first hundred sometime in 2004......................and then get out.
So make that 3/189.
Correction just as I type that has holed out at mid-off.
He's doing a Mark Waugh; increasin his top score by one run every time. It was 97 now it's 98.
At this rate he should score his first hundred sometime in 2004......................and then get out.
So make that 3/189.
Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
Can people please stop spouting this rubbish?
Jumping to conclusions never helps anyone.
That's definitely a morale-boosting performance anyway, hopefully we can carry this through to the SL games.
Andre
International Regular
Actually Corey, Hayden has 2 ODI hundreds - 146 vs Pakistan, and I think about 103 against India. But he does have a 99 and 98.
Originally posted by Top_Cat
Aussies 2/189 in the 33rd. Hayden about to get his hundred.
Correction just as I type that has holed out at mid-off.
He's doing a Mark Waugh; increasin his top score by one run every time. It was 97 now it's 98.
At this rate he should score his first hundred sometime in 2004......................and then get out.
So make that 3/189.
Bazza
International 12th Man
I would say (purely from scorecard - haven't seen any action) England - particularly big 3 of Knight, Trescothick and Hussain - batted very well. We should probably have made 20-30 more having been 200-2 at the 40 over mark, but unfortunately it looks like a few people threw their wickets away going for big hits. In some ways it's unfortunate. When you slog in the last 10 overs, some days you'll score 100 runs, others you'll be 50-6 as we were here.
Bowling looks poor, spare Blackwell, and maybe to an extent White.
WHY WAS BATTY PLAYING? I'M GONNA SCREAM IF WE PICK ANY MORE NO HOPERS LIKE HIM! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
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Bowling looks poor, spare Blackwell, and maybe to an extent White.
WHY WAS BATTY PLAYING? I'M GONNA SCREAM IF WE PICK ANY MORE NO HOPERS LIKE HIM! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
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Rik
Cricketer Of The Year
Come on, he's not that bad, and looked a good replacement for Snape. I've been impressed with him for a while as well. He got a 1st baller and went for 55, sounds like a typical debut for a youngster...at least he can only get better! Blackwell...he doesn't even bowl 10 overs for Somerset...so combined figures of his 2 last games: 20 overs, 64 runs, 3 Wickets is very impressive. He's quite slow through the air and is very much an orthodox Slow Left Armer...and he's done well against Aussie Batsmen...maybe Australia have trouble with Slow Left Armers? Tufnell and Giles have troubled them...when the pitches were not Edgebaston or the Oval flatbeds...just a thoughtOriginally posted by Bazzaroodoo
WHY WAS BATTY PLAYING? I'M GONNA SCREAM IF WE PICK ANY MORE NO HOPERS LIKE HIM! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Rik
Cricketer Of The Year
It was a good performance by England, an unbeaten Century by Knight, another 60 odd by Trescothick at over a run a ball and a uncharacteristic 50 from Hussain off only about 60 balls. But too many ducks! As for the bowling...I thought Fletcher had realised that Caddick was a poor ODI bowler in the summer...and even worse when he has to lead an attack a la the 1st 3 Tests...Kirtley surprised me, every time I've seen him bowl he's impressed me but I can't understand why he goes for so many runs or gets so few Wickets! Blackwell impressed with the ball after failing with the bat as did Irani, Shah got out cheaply, Batty had a horror debut with a 1st baller and 55 runs off his 10 overs without a wicket...and Stewart got out in the slog overs. Overall not bad, enough to beat Sri Lanka in my opinion, but still quite not good enough against a team as strong as Australia. I wouldn't mind seeing Hollioake thrown in, maybe in Batty's place as he seems to be a man reborn over the last year and only 2 players bettered his OD bowling average of (30 Wickets at) 14.86 and maybe Anderson in the place of Caddick as he's looking worse than useless...
V Reddy
International Debutant
I think England's attack has become like an Indian attack. Even Indian bowling would have fared better. Don't tell me that it's b'coz the best team. Scores in the region of 300 are rarely scored in AUS. Atleast they should have picked 5-6 wkts.In the last series scores were around 200. You just hit a few 4's and the Eng bowling attack falls under pressure. They are consistently giving around 300. And also the captaincy was really bad today. How can hussain not put a 3rd man especially with the new ball:wow::wow:
Mr Mxyzptlk
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They didn't score in the region of 300 but rather in the region of 250. Anyway you try to get Hayden out cheaply recently! It's extremely hard to do and I am sincerely doubting that the mighty Indians, even with the greatest left-armer (obviously not considering Wasim) is in the team, would have done any better.
V Reddy
International Debutant
They would have got 300 easily had they played the 50 overs. I am not saying only from this match. In the last few series they are consistently giving more than 270 just like India. NZ and SAF consistently bowled AUS for a total around 200 last year. Also only Choora said that Zaheer is the best left armer.