***Official*** Australia in England 2018

[Mr Miyagi]

June 7: Warm-up v Sussex, Hove (D/N)

June 9: Warm-up v Middlesex, Lord's

June 13: First ODI, The Oval (D/N)

June 16: Second ODI, Cardiff

June 19: Third ODI, Trent Bridge (D/N)

June 21: Fourth ODI, Durham (D/N)

June 24: Fifth ODI, Old Trafford

June 27: Only T20, Edgbaston (D/N)

Australia

ODI squad: Tim Paine (c), Aaron Finch (vc), Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Travis Head, Nathan Lyon, Glenn Maxwell, Shaun Marsh, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, D'Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Andrew Tye

T20 squad: Aaron Finch (c), Alex Carey (vc), Ashton Agar, Travis Head, Nic Maddinson, Glenn Maxwell, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, D'Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Swepson, Andrew Tye, Jack Wildermuth

England

ODI Squad Eoin Morgan (Middlesex, capt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire), Sam Billings (Kent), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Tom Curran (Surrey), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Liam Plunkett (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid(Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), David Willey (Yorkshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham).

Ben Stokes is missing at the least the first game with a torn hamstring.

 

[cnerd123]

We already have a thread for this

 

[TheJediBrah]

Good thing Aus are flying their specialist T20 squad half way around the world for this 1 whole game

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Australia's bowling stocks even without Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood and long lost Pattinson still looks better than alright.

Billy Stanlake is reentering 50 overs after a bit of a hiatus with T20 only but has impressed on occasion. That said, he has been cotton wooled in t20 and bowled out early, so people are only guessing where he is at. But ridiculously tall and 150km/h is a good start for any bowler.

Andrew Tye has been very good around the world for a while now.

But that batting? Stoinis has been going strong for a batting allrounder. Carey has impressed (albeit in BBL and Paine is tour captain), will Finch have to carry this team more than he did in the series between the same two sides earlier in this year in Australia?

 

[Mr Miyagi]

We already have a thread for this

 

[TheJediBrah]

will Finch have to carry this team more than he did in the series between the same two sides earlier in this year in Australia?

Smith & Warner will make about the same amount of runs between them as they did in that series in Australia

 

[harsh.ag]

Paine's international run has been inspirational for the average Joe/Jai.

 

[TheJediBrah]

The bloke averages 40 in Test cricket. Officially a better WK/bat than Dhoni

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Paine's international run has been inspirational for the average Joe/Jai.

harsh.ag, do you want to make the thread official and sticky it?

If not, please move it into *****'s suggested thread.

But yes, Tim Paine's rise with ordinary form in the last 8 months has been something to behold.

 

[Starfighter]

You can just call it an *official* thread and have the mods take ages to sticky it. Unless it's the IPL thread, in which case it will be instantly pinned and remain so for way too long after the tournament ends.

OTOH I agree with *****.

 

[Gnske]

harsh.ag, do you want to make the thread official and sticky it?

If not, please move it into *****'s suggested thread.

But yes, Tim Paine's rise with ordinary form in the last 8 months has been something to behold.

He doesn't know how, ask Dan or something

 

[Adders]

We already have a thread for this

Yeah but that thread has been totally FUBAR'd.

 

[Burgey]

Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I’m gratified ***** reprised my gag about Bangladesh Cricket and adapted it to this upcoming series.

 

[TheJediBrah]

You 2 are rubbing off on each other in more ways than one

 

[cnerd123]

Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I’m gratified ***** reprised my gag about Bangladesh Cricket and adapted it to this upcoming series.

Aww you think I remember your posts.

Cute.

 

[Burgey]

I think you spend a few hours each night memorizing them. It hasn't helped, but you should keep at it in an effort to improve.

 

[weldone]

No Starc-Haze-Cummins-NCN lol

 

[morgieb]

Will be impressed if we can win a match here.

Me thinks the main reason this tournament exists is to give cricketers something to do during the WC.

 

[S.Kennedy]

I'm absolutely livid about these pointless matches when we could've had a conclusion to Pakistan. More white ball garbage. I'll not be watching.

And who are these Australians? I cannot believe the Aussie press were given the England Ashes team grief for unknown/unrecognizable team members.

 

[Gremlin]

Will be impressed if we can win a match here.

Me thinks the main reason this tournament exists is to give cricketers something to do during the WC.

Or try and shovel as much cash as possible into the ECB's bank account.