ODI Series v England

[carey]

Congratulations on beating Australia's D-Grade

Yeah they did well. Lol

[Jim05]

You know its a D grade side when that plodder Bopara takes 4/3
It will be fun to see the Poms humiliated again on Friday

[Jim05]

Congratulations on beating Australia's D-Grade

Piers Morgan faced more balls from Lee than what Cook did!

[Stumps]

I hear your point and maybe the odd change up is a good idea. but the good ones can adjust and you just have to look at the youtube to see how vaas adjusts. The reason Coulter nile and others dont bowl yorkers more often is because they and the captain know they cant so settle for 6-12 runs off by setting square fields and allowing singles and twos. (IMO)
It is a dying art in one dayers and test matches I think

The bowler can't adjust as much as the batsman can. The bowler can't change where the ball goes once it leaves his hand. This is something that has evolved recently. Vaas was good at the yorker, but bowled at a time when the batsmen had less shots at their disposal. The other factor is the MCG is shorter straight than many grounds and very deep out wide. I think you also forget you have 1 less fielder outside the circle these days.

It's not a dying art at all, in fact bowlers are improving their control and tricks dramatically. The game has evolved away from a stock standard everything yorker length tactic you used to see late in games because it was no longer the most effective method. I guarantee if it was, teams would do it and would be winning.

Brett lee's death Yorkers wins the sixers the game- maybe it's just the young generation who don't have the control to bowl them

[Squids]

Dan Christian the replacement for Watson


the most overrated pie chucker in the history of cricket. Terrible terrible decision, get on the poms.

[Jim05]

Dan Christian the replacement for Watson


the most overrated pie chucker in the history of cricket. Terrible terrible decision, get on the poms.

Faark me, scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring him in

[the joker]

Dan Christian the replacement for Watson


the most overrated pie chucker in the history of cricket. Terrible terrible decision, get on the poms.

Faark me, scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring him in

he averaged about 40 with the bat and 30 with the ball in this years ODD comp. deserves his spot

[Squids]

Take away his 117 and he scored 38 in 4 other innings.

source http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... tournament



Averaged 35 with the ball....

[Brodlach]

Poms win the toss and bat

England unchanged, Australians swap Doherty and Watson for Johnson and Shaun Marsh

[bennymacca]

and they make a plodding start like they usually do.

how they persist with cook and bell at the top is staggering, it wont win them games. surely someone like wright should have played. or joss buttler who was smashing them everywhere. try and shake them up a bit and take the game to the aussies.

otherwise it will be exactly like last game, where they plodded for a while before the late charge got them to a respectable score, its virtually impossible for them to hit 320 with their batting lineup

[Phantom Gossiper]

otherwise it will be exactly like last game, where they plodded for a while before the late charge got them to a respectable score, its virtually impossible for them to hit 320 with their batting lineup

A sign of the times and the impact of T20.. wasnt very long ago anything around the 260+ mark was very competitive

[Brodlach]

0/44 FROM 8

[bennymacca]

otherwise it will be exactly like last game, where they plodded for a while before the late charge got them to a respectable score, its virtually impossible for them to hit 320 with their batting lineup

A sign of the times and the impact of T20.. wasnt very long ago anything around the 260+ mark was very competitive

yeah, 270 was a huge score back in the day, i mean thats what bevan was always chasing.

[Spargo]

Clint McKay, why is he picked?
Please will someone excuse my ignorance and just tell me why?
Why why why???

[scoob]

Clint McKay, why is he picked?
Please will someone excuse my ignorance and just tell me why?
Why why why???

wasn't he ODI player of the year last year for the aussies?

[Brodlach]

Cook gone,Maxwell takes a good caught and bowled


1/57

[bennymacca]

52 after 10 is a pretty good score from them.

Bell: Avg 36, Str 74
Cook 38, 78
Root: 37, 80

compare that with the aussie top order
Warner: 30, 81 (and we all know he is better than that these days, given time that will get up to 90)
Finch 35, 92,
Watson 41, 90

Clint McKay, why is he picked?
Please will someone excuse my ignorance and just tell me why?
Why why why???

has a punchable face no doubt, but his one day record stacks up pretty well
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
ODIs 57 57 2851 2267 94 5/28 5/28 24.11 4.77 30.3 4 2 0

[Brodlach]

Just for something different, Root challenging an LBW

[mal]

On behalf of Jim05

Alastair Cook , how rough is his tour going when the BIG show gets him out

[Brodlach]

Just for something different, Root challenging an LBW

Out on umpires call