Looking towards the ODI's

[bigred]

Watching the game at the Oval head towards a dull draw, England will now start to think about maintaining their very good one day record at home in recent years. Payers will need to be rested after their exertions in the longer format so I reckon a squad to win the series would be something like

1 Cook
2 Bell
3 Trott
4 Root
5 Morgan
6 Bopara
7 Buttler
8 Tredwell
9 Tremlett
10 Finn
11 Rankin

Kieswetter
Carberry/Taylor
Stokes
Briggs
Topley

 

[ste_mc_efc]

No way will the seam attack be tremlett, rankin, finn. Possibly for one match as a pitch based gamble

it just won't happen as a proper side. not enough variety.

Woakes will be in there for most of the matches.

I hope Carberry plays too, as a part of me wants to see Cook/carberry opening in the next ashes, with root at 6.

 

[midgetwars]

Australia are going to win. Though if we do lose it'll be the worst lost ever. I mean, everytime a team wins the tests they lose the ODIs.

It's an odd pattern

 

[whiteninness]

I always thought that the ODI's should come first. They did in 2005 and were a brilliant battle, a great appetiser for the tests.

I'll still have an interest in them but definitely not as much. Even less for the 2020s.

 

[barmyarmy]

Watching the game at the Oval head towards a dull draw

Got that right

 

[bigred]

I was half right. Fair play to both sides.

 

[Aislabie]

Interesting ODI squad that England have put out:

England squad to play Ireland: Eoin Morgan (capt), Gary Ballance, Ravi Bopara, Danny Briggs, Jos Buttler, Michael Carberry, Steven Finn, Chris Jordan, Jamie Overton, Boyd Rankin, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, James Tredwell, Luke Wright.

England squad to play Australia: Eoin Morgan (capt), Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler, Michael Carberry, Steven Finn, Chris Jordan, Jamie Overton, Kevin Pietersen, Boyd Rankin, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott, Luke Wright.

My big question is why on Earth has Ballance been left out of the Auustralia squad? He's the best middle-order bat in the country, aside from Bell and Pietersen.

 

[MUFC1987]

I'm surprised they've picked Overton. Hopefully they actually plan on playing him, rather than just having a closer look. He's a talent for sure, but it is very raw at the moment. He'll take wickets, but probably go for a few runs too. Could be good in those middle overs though, if you want someone quick to get set batsmen out.

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It is strange having a squad for just one game too. Harsh on those players that are only in the squad for that game, like Briggs as well. Personally I would have left KP and Trott out of both series and kept Ballance and call up Kieswetter too. That way you'd have a top 6 that are bang in form in the shorter formats.

 

[whiteninness]

Barely heard of most of them.

 

[aussie1st]

^What he said! Now I wish even more we called Maddinson over.

 

[abhi_jacko]

Anyone else watching the T20 - Australia (Finch) on a rampage

 

[vaibhavtewatia]

Sanity restored.

 

[Aalay]

Finch is a beast.

 

[ferg512]

England should be utterly embarrassed by that performance with the ball. I mean full credit to Finch he can only play whats put in front of him but I'm sorry some of that bowling looked like club stuff. Where are the yorkers? I think it really is just plain laziness as its not the easiest delivery to bowl, especially when I have heard multiple times the players say its not as effective anymore because of the way batsman play the lap shot, how would they know anyway as they never bowl them. I don't like Dernbach but at least he does mix it up a little bit and can bowl a decent yorker.

 

[Aislabie]

England's lack of yorkers was absolutely terrible, 'nuff said.

I also thought that Fawad Ahmed looked hopelessly average. Someone who has to be hidden in the field should really be making up for it with runs or wickets, and he doesn't really look like doing so. When he was in Pakistan, he struggled to make the Abbottabad side, and it looked like it last night.