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International Debutant
That's so Chris Woakes.
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**Official** Sri Lanka in England and Ireland 2016
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Prince EWS
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Seriously.
I've said lots of times before that the best ODIs are when the team batting first scores 275-300 and all three results are still possible going into the last over of a chase, and it's hard to imagine a game that fit that better than this one. But even beyond that we had all the different elements that you see in ODIs -- good swing bowling up front, yorkers at the death, collapses, recoveries, the tense middle overs battle between accurate bowling+good fielding and gap-finding+good running that's completely unique to ODIs, innings being built, cameos being blasted, innings pacing changes, captains facing team balance issues with the bowling attack, good catches and a really tense finish. I think the only thing we missed at all was some top quality spin bowling, although even on that front Rashid and Prasanna did really well at the roles they were given.
To me that's why ODIs can be so good sometimes. Tests will always be my favourite format but there were so many things we got from that game that we couldn't really get from either Tests or T20s, particularly not together in the same game.
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Prince EWS
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Yeah it was classic innings you'd see from a #4 or a #5 in a chase, particularly in the 2000-2010 era.
Stapel
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Prince EWS
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Most of us know that Woakes has never really done anything with the bat in domestic one day cricket, partly because Warwickshire have always had a lot of allrounders so he bats pretty low, but I'm somewhat surprised that that was his first List A fifty.
Noble One
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I can only recall Asif Mutijaba in 1992 slapping a Steve Waugh full toss over midwicket.
weldone
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Batting-wise Pakistan is the dumbest ODI side.
YorksLanka
International Debutant
Wow what a match..we should have had it in the bag but fair play to England who deserved the tie by never giving up. Buttler and woakes were superb and both deserved tons for the way they played. I am not trying to make excuses but we really missed Angelo in the bowling at the end (he bowled very tightly at first) but fair play to both teams to come back from early wickets and score a decent score..glad we were competitive and bring on the second game...
morgieb
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Greg Chappell dislikes this.
wpdavid
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Dissector
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NZ should troll Australia by making Plunkett an honorary citizen.
flibbertyjibber
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What did I miss?
Yeah, he generally batted 8 and most of his List A is 40 over cricket. He lacks the boundary hitting ability to be a really top class white ball player to be honest, but playing the role he did today is perfect for. His bowling is coming on nicely as well. Bowls in the PP and at the death.
