Originally posted by ElleEffSeeeNot sure.
There were interesting comments at the end of the game by Nasser Hussain. Specifically this wasn't England's best 20-20 team - a game where 4's and 6's are the only shot to go for. A lot of our specialists are back in England, we can't fly them out just for one 20-20 game. The England team batted like a 50-50 match with sweeps and guiding shots. Hopefull ...[text shortened]... at that form of the game, coming up soon.
Will Cameron White be retained for the ODIs?
I was lucky enough to watch his 140 odd for Somerset in a 20/20.
The boy can bat but I do not think they will keep him in the side, certainly will not get a place a bowler.
Originally posted by ElleEffSeeeThat wasnt Australia's best 20-20 team either.
There were interesting comments at the end of the game by Nasser Hussain. Specifically this wasn't England's best 20-20 team - a game where 4's and 6's are the only shot to go for. A lot of our specialists are back in England, we can't fly them out just for one 20-20 game.
Q. What do Geraint Jones and Michael Jackson have in common?
A. They both wear gloves for no apparent reason
Q. What is the height of optimism?
A. An English batsman applying sunscreen.
Q. What does Ashley Giles put in his hands to make sure the next ball
almost always takes a wicket?
A. A bat.
Q. What would Glen McGrath be if he was an Englishman?
A. An allrounder.
Q. What advantage do Kevin Pieterson, Andrew Strauss and Geraint Jones
have over the rest of their team-mates?
A. At least they can say they're not really English.
Q. What is the English version of a hat-trick?
A. Three runs in three balls.
Q. What do you call an Englishman with 100 runs against his name?
A. A bowler.
Q. What is the most proficient form of footwork displayed by English
batsmen?
A. The walk back to the pavilion.
Q. Who has the easiest job in the English squad?
A. The guy who removes the red ball marks from the bats.
Q. Why is Andrew Flintoff the unluckiest English player?
A. Because he was born in
England .
Q. What does "Ashes" stand for?
A. Another Sad Horrific English Series.
Q. What's the English version of LBW?
A. Lost, Beaten, Walloped.
Q. Who spends the most time on the crease of anyone in the English team?
A. The person who ironed the cricket whites.
Been reading this article about Ed Joyce:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6259097.stm
I can't help noticing how since the thirt test David Graveney seems to be taking a much more hands on approach. Is this a sign that Fletcher's days are numbered even if doesn't quit himself?
Unsurprisingly from an Aussie newspaper:
ENGLAND named its provisional World Cup squad of 30 players, to be
reduced to 15 in mid-February, for the competition that begins in early
March. A pitiful list it is, too, innocent of matchwinners in every
department of one-day cricket. England is not so much rank outsider for
the World Cup as plain rank.
The 30 players in the provisional squad have scored 12 one-day
international centuries between the lot of them, and that includes
Vikram Solanki, who scored two and has long since been jettisoned.
Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies
have all at least one current batsman who has made more one-day hundreds
off his own bat than England's entire squad.
England's bowling cupboard is equally bare. No sign of a matchwinning
pace bowler, especially as Darren Gough has been consigned to history:
the 36-year-old Gough, Ian Blackwell and Tim Bresnan have been ruled out
of the World Cup already because they are not expected to reach the
fitness levels required by the February 15 deadline.
England's one-day cricket is little short of a disgrace. The country,
which has been playing limited-overs cricket since 1962, will send a
team to the West Indies with only three players of proven international
standard: Andrew Flintoff, Paul Collingwood and Kevin Pietersen, who
will miss the rest of the one-day series in Australia with a fractured
rib and who has been replaced in the England party by Ravi Bopara, of
Essex. Bopara is a sumptuous batting talent, and is learning some clever
medium pace, but at 21, he is destined to become an integral part of
England's side for the 2011 World Cup, not the forthcoming one.
In 2005, England did assemble a decent one-day, as well as Test, team.
Of its past 23 internationals, however, excluding one against Ireland
and a rained-off "no result" against Pakistan, it has won five and lost
18, and gone downhill spectacularly. On balance, England's batting has
been even more rubbish than its bowling. In its past 23 games, England
has been bowled out 13 times, and has bowled out the opposition three
times. For a team of grown men to be dismissed in less than 50 overs on
well-prepared pitches, and regularly, is quite a feat of incompetence.
In its past 23 internationals, England has reached 250, a par total in
most internationals, only seven times. This is directly related to the
fact that it has scored one century, and that was by Marcus Trescothick,
who has been ruled out of the World Cup. Yet 12 centuries have been
scored against England in this period. Top-order batsmen have to score
centuries in one-day cricket, and England's top three have scored two
between them, both by Andrew Strauss — one of those against Bangladesh.