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hornetrider said:
Just watched Swanny competing in Wales Rally GB on BT, bloody good programme and the old boy did really well. Good stuff!
Great knock from the Hammer of Justice. If we can bowl OK we should be in here. Not a great start though, Aussie 74 - 0
Hope Captain Morgan will bring himself on for a few overs, At least he can bowl a maiden over.
hornetrider said:
Not really. It's barely par. It's certainly not going to win us anything of note.
Got any facts to support this analysis ? I will give you some
Since 2010 there have been 1304 ODI games
In only 134 of them have one team scored more than 300 runs. and in only around 20% of those games have the other team also scored 300+
hornetrider said:
Well stagger me staggered, we're going to win the world cup 
If only it was played on paper 
I don't entirely disagree, India have made 400+ three times, and of course on some wickets, 300 is weak. we should be looking 350+. Especially in tournament cricket in SA and Aus where the fast bouncy pitches make big scores possible.
But yes, I think we could win the world cup, but we need Broad to stop bowling pies in the slot, Finn to carry on bowling 90mph+ inswinger yorkers and Bell to keep swinging his mighty hammer of justice.
Then a massive a slice of luck.
Gargamel said:
hornetrider said:
Well stagger me staggered, we're going to win the world cup
If only it was played on paper I don't entirely disagree, India have made 400+ three times, and of course on some wickets, 300 is weak. we should be looking 350+. Especially in tournament cricket in SA and Aus where the fast bouncy pitches make big scores possible.
But yes, I think we could win the world cup, but we need Broad to stop bowling pies in the slot, Finn to carry on bowling 90mph+ inswinger yorkers and Bell to keep swinging his mighty hammer of justice.
Then a massive a slice of luck.
London424 said:
Isn't it more that England only scored 59 runs in the last 10 overs that's the worrying thing!
Bopara, Buttler and Woakes is on paper a decent line up for lower order shennanigans. However I still think Hales is worth a go. Maybe they got it wrong today, I suspect the desire to make a score and get in the WC team led to some conservative batting, and I didn't see the Aussie bowling it may have been decent.
Anyway, at the moment, we are on top. Another wicket and we should be home.
Gargamel said:
London424 said:
Isn't it more that England only scored 59 runs in the last 10 overs that's the worrying thing!
Bopara, Buttler and Woakes is on paper a decent line up for lower order shennanigans. However I still think Hales is worth a go. Maybe they got it wrong today, I suspect the desire to make a score and get in the WC team led to some conservative batting, and I didn't see the Aussie bowling it may have been decent.
Anyway, at the moment, we are on top. Another wicket and we should be home.
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