Grahaml wrote:England's batting just doesn't seem to be right at the moment. Oddly, the total opposite from the test matches. Maybe they should fly in Al Cook?
Surely their bowling stocks are getting to be a concern now. The medical room door is more of a revolving door than the Aussies!
Not too worried about the bowling stocks, we've had incredible depth throughout this tour, and with Anderson now coming back and Broad not all that far off, I think we'll still be quite strong in that regard for the world cup, while Swann is a big loss, he's expected to be right for India.
The batting was fantastic in the 1st ODI, and 9/10 times we'd have won that match with the total we posted, however the batting performances in the 2nd and 3rd ODI we're nowhere near good enough, should have comfortable won the 2nd match or at least got a lot closer than we did, and I'm amazed we we're half a chance with 10-20 overs remaining in the match considering the target we had set.
IMO the key tomorrow for England is Ian Bell, if he can hang around til towards the end of the innings then I think we'll go alright, it seems once we've lost Bell in the other ODI's we've lost our way a bit and its perhaps caused a bit of panic amongst a few of the other middle order batsmen and they've then got out playing shots that have been pretty ordinary for that stage of that match.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:06 pm
