2nd T20I England v Australia at Melbourne

[angryangy]

Yes, this is the advantage of Finch, a lot of power and more than one shot to deliver it through.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

Smith is becoming absolutely useless day by day Good thing, he gave support to Finch

 

[angryangy]

Interesting bowling by Shahzad; legbreak bouncer followed by the orthodox cutter outside off.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

Why Keefe Johny boy should have came to bat

 

[aussie1st]

A shocker by Smith, don't know what he was doing tonight.
O'Keefe ramps onto the stumps lol.

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A shocker by Smith, don't know what he was doing tonight.
O'Keefe ramps onto the stumps lol.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

50 for Finchy we are 10 runs shorter than the 1st T20

 

[Biggy]

Smith is becoming absolutely useless day by day Good thing, he gave support to Finch

Yeah, not much of a hitter. I'd have Dan Christian in for him.

 

[angryangy]

Smith was far too cross batted. It's not that the pitch was troublingly slow, but that it wasn't enough of a featherbed to be applying the shot to every single ball. Finch played his sweeps and pulls well because he had a range of shots and was able to use them without complication.

Nevertheless, Hussey was worse and in retrospect Paine and Watson could have tried harder.

Just like in the Caribbean, Australia may regret that their best batsman came in at six.

 

[midgetwars]

Paine has 40times bettered his average. That's like Bradman scoring 4000runs =D

 

[aussie1st]

Speed kills on this pitch. We have got problems considering all 3 of our speedsters and wayward. I agree with what the commentators were saying, should have started with a spinner to get the momentum.

 

[angryangy]

Bell gets a wink from Lee. Smooth.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

Great start for Binga just Hope Tait now should follow like him too.

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The delivery which Tait did on free hit was a great one, he should do more of these rather than bowling loose balls.

 

[angryangy]

Bell opening deters the early spinner trick somewhat.

 

[Slowcoach]

Smooth?

I find Brett Lee's current on-field persona very irritating.
He is carrying the "old hard-man of the team" thing a bit too far for my liking.
It's not convincing, he will always be the young piano playing poof to me.
And it's not like he has the muscles, the size, or the grrr to carry it off, he scares no one, what's he gonna do, chuck a cricket ball at my head?
Big wuss.
Maybe if he tried holding his shoulders back a bit further and straightening that rod a bit further it would work a bit better (am being sarcastic by the way).
Oh, and wickets would help.

 

[midgetwars]

Paine has 40times bettered his average. That's like Bradman scoring 4000runs =D