How England Also won the T20 and ODI Series 'down under'

[Bing o]

As per the Ashes thread....

Should be a clean sweep of the T20's and ODIs for the Poms.

[Cooky]

Good work Bingy!

[HSVGTSCoupe]

might as well start where I finished off.....

[Bing o]

That is a cracking smiley!

Fixtures are as follows...

12 Jan 2011 1st Twenty20 Adelaide 7.05pm local, 8.05am UK
14 Jan 2011 2nd Twenty20 Melbourne 7.30pm local, 8.30am UK
16 Jan 2011 1st one day (D/N) Melbourne 2.20pm local, 3.20am UK
21 Jan 2011 2nd one day (D/N) Hobart 2.20pm local, 3.20am UK
23 Jan 2011 3rd one day (D/N) Sydney 2.20pm local, 3.20am UK
26 Jan 2011 4th one day (D/N) Adelaide 1.50pm local, 3.20am UK
30 Jan 2011 5th one day (D/N) Brisbane 1.20pm local, 3.20am UK
2 Feb 2011 6th one day (D/N) Sydney 2.20pm local, 3.20am UK
6 Feb 2011 7th one day (D/N) Perth 11.30pm local, 8am UK

[HSVGTSCoupe]

I'm going to the two MCG fixtures 14th after werk and 16th for the Sunday ODI. Gonna dust off the "COP THAT SOAPSHY banner one more time in the faint hope that it gets more of a run than it did on Boxing Day

Edited by HSVGTSCoupe on Friday 7th January 06:53

[suthol]

HSVGTSCoupe said:

I'm going to the two MCG fixtures 14th after werk and 16th for the Sunday ODI. Gonna dust off the "COP THAT SOAPSHY banner one more time in the faint hope that it gets more of a run than it did on Boxing Day

Edited by HSVGTSCoupe on Friday 7th January 06:53

I hope it get's more of a run too.

There is a fresh(er) attack and it doesn't matter quite as much if the batsmen don't use their feet so long as they swing bloody hard at the ball.

I sure do hope we have different coaches for the shorter form because the test guys did fk all to try and sort out the technical problems in the longer game.

[Beardy10]

suthol said:

I sure do hope we have different coaches for the shorter form because the test guys did fk all to try and sort out the technical problems in the longer game.

That's down to the selectors first of all.....you can't really work on technical flaws in the middle of a series (especially with back to back tests) as it's generally a backwards to go forwards thing. They need to say to the likes of Hughes and Khawaja that they think they can be playing at the top order of the Aussie test team for ten years but to do that you need to go and spend six months learning how to play and leave outside off stump. Both of them have got a technique that has come through playing a lot of one day cricket and making runs against average attacks...to make the step up to test cricket the first thing they have to do is learn how to occupy the crease. The biggest problem the modern cricketer has is that it's a year round game and there's very little opportunity to go away and work on technique....it's what England did with KP at the end of the summer which he was fuming about at the time....bet he isn't now.


I think the one day series could be a cracker....have to say I am not a huge fan of hit and giggle but I'll watch this one.

[hornetrider]

The Crims might even make it a little interesting with Lee and Tait back in the side.

[Gizmo!]

hornetrider said:

The Crims might even make it a little interesting with Lee and Tait back in the side.

Now that will make it interesting. Two properly fast bowlers who can actually bang it in somewhere near the sticks.


And we're sending our best batsman home to give you a chance, guys!

[Hammer67]

HSVGTSCoupe said:

I'm going to the two MCG fixtures 14th after werk and 16th for the Sunday ODI. Gonna dust off the "COP THAT SOAPSHY banner one more time in the faint hope that it gets more of a run than it did on Boxing Day

Edited by HSVGTSCoupe on Friday 7th January 06:53

Good luck with that. Bob Hope and Maurice Hope. Both brown bread.

[spikeyhead]

This will probably be my only visit to this thread, I'm not a fan at all of the one day game and even less of 20twenty. Not enough time to get to the bar.

[hornetrider]

We're getting tonked about a bit by the President's XI.

Payne and Khawaja opening, going at a run a ball. Oh, as I type Khawaja has just gone, 75/1.

[Bing o]

No problems in the end - 9 balls to spare on D/L. Ton up for Bell. Lovely Jubbly!

[suthol]

Your lot hardly raised a sweat, our bloody selectors got it right again and only picked one bowler who knows where the stumps are.

[Bing o]

suthol said:

Your lot hardly raised a sweat, our bloody selectors got it right again and only picked one bowler who knows where the stumps are.

Lee I take it?

[chimster]

suthol said:

Your lot hardly raised a sweat, our bloody selectors got it right again and only picked one bowler who knows where the stumps are.

Perhaps he is the only one you have....

[suthol]

chimster said:

suthol said:

Your lot hardly raised a sweat, our bloody selectors got it right again and only picked one bowler who knows where the stumps are.

Perhaps he is the only one you have....

Possibly but Tait and Nannes will be huge handful when working with Lee.

We have another guy Mark Cameron who swings it both ways and hits the stumps but missed pretty much all of last grade / shield season due to injury.

[anonymous-user]

This series will be a great warm up for the world cup. Some of these ODI's are on at great times for the UK to catch the last half at a decent time of day.

[Bing o]

el stovey said:

This series will be a great warm up for the world cup. Some of these ODI's are on at great times for the UK to catch the last half at a decent time of day.

Or for some of us to watch the whole second innings in the pub after work.....

[Nom de ploom]

ppl going to the pub to watch crikit - whoda thunk it....

s/be a good competetive series and good prep for both teams for world cup...

as per my correct ashes series prediction I'm going to plump for - wait for it....a drawn series.

I just think we'll hit the ground hard and fluff a bit tbh and pick up towards the end of the series.

20-20 couldn't care less