The "only cares about Tests" thing generally applies only to hardcore fans.Btw, I find it funny that England out of all countries held a tri-series with England, Australia and Bangladesh, then followed that up with three more useless ODIs as part of another tournament involving Australia and England again. Bit odd for the country that only cares about tests
It wasn't actually any more ODIs than we would normally have in a home season, jsut that they were all in one burt. Normally we do it in two series of five or whatever, but actually we used to have the tri-series every yearAustralia before the ODIs in England prior to the Ashes?
Lost a few practice matches, then lost to Bangladesh and England in the first few ODIs right? In the end came good and shared the tri-series ODI with England in a tied final? And then I think they won the best of 3 Natwest Challenge ODIs 2-1 vs. England. Then lost the Ashes, so bit of a mixed bag.
Btw, I find it funny that England out of all countries held a tri-series with England, Australia and Bangladesh, then followed that up with three more useless ODIs as part of another tournament involving Australia and England again. Bit odd for the country that only cares about tests
The point I was making is that if you're going to do some compiling, it'd make sense to count only genuine tour games, not beer matches of the type we've had twice on the current England in India tour.
Matches which aren't 11-a-side generally get reduced to footnotes with no-one doing any serious-taking of them.
Can't believe PEWS's prompt still hasn't fixed this record.Don't forget, there's a difference between a practice match and a proper tour game.
Nothing in games like the two England have just played (games which are not 11-a-side) are remotely important.
Well there's several factors at play there TBH...It wasn't actually any more ODIs than we would normally have in a home season, jsut that they were all in one burt. Normally we do it in two series of five or whatever, but actually we used to have the tri-series every year
As I said, it's not like I'm bringing the point up non-stop. Others raise it, I mention this as it retains its significance.Can't believe PEWS's prompt still hasn't fixed this record.
There is no doubt that that collapse, whether taken lightly or not, helped a couple of unknown Mumbaiites become famous across the world.As I said, it's not like I'm bringing the point up non-stop. Others raise it, I mention this as it retains its significance.
Lost to Somerset. Best result in the history of SCCC.Australia before the ODIs in England prior to the Ashes?
Corrected.Lost to Graeme Smith and Sanath Jayasuriya, two of the best ODI openers around. Best result in the history of SCCC.
It's appearing in all the Australian cricket websites I've checked so far, and also in some of the English newspaper sites. By world, I meant the cricketing world.Really? I doubt the resonance of that match will last more than a week or a few days to 99999\100000ths of the cricket-watching World (or somewhere thereabouts).
Being a non-game, it also won't even go down in their records.
People will always read something into them if the Test(\ODI) series follows a similar pattern, and they'll always be forgotten if it doesn't.