Australian ODI tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland, June-July 2010

[Owzat]

Should also mention that in ODIs with allocations of overs, you can't afford one of your bowlers in there principally for their bowling, to be so bad so often. It means you have to "find overs from somewhere" and decreases your options. Gives the captain a headache too, does he hope the bowler comes back strong in his second spell and how many bad overs can he let the bowler have? The batting order is pretty strong, might as well include an out and out bowler.

 

[Robelinda]

Someone is going to have to play a blinder to get us up to 270+, probably White, I dont see us getting much over 200 at 40 overs, and i'm not sure we are capable of going nuts in the last 10, but this is a fast ground and a good pitch, so its up to White IMO. Happy to be proven wrong though, would love to see us get 300 from here, going by the last 2 games anything less will be chased down easily unless we really get our bowling game on song, maybe Tait will have a good impact, he can be explosive or crazy expensive.

Not enjoying this lull against spin in the middle overs AGAIN, the last 2 years havent been good for us in that area.

 

[drainpipe32]

Far out, White is out now. Please save us Hussey! Clarke is going to have to bat his heart out and the bowlers do their thing like there's no tomorrow!

Ponting really is our barometer :/

Gazza added 3 Minutes and 7 Seconds later...

He fails in ODI, can't play his natural game.

That's not his fault though. Media scrutiny will do that to you. He's showed terrific form this year in T20I's where he has been under no pressure to score runs to keep his spot. If the selectors can commit to giving him two series in the team to show his stuff he'll score big, mark those words. A super talent is he, strikes the ball like few others.

 

[Robelinda]

Up to the bowlers now, we are going to post a crappy total AGAIN. 260 would be a miracle.

I'm a fan of Warner, give him a go.

 

[drainpipe32]

I'm a fan of Warner, give him a go.

Nailed it here. A go is exactly what he isn't being given, but you know our selectors :sarcasm

 

[Robelinda]

We've had a crazy run of injuries though, going back to India last year. Our bowling has been so weak and very up and down, need almost 7 guys who can bowl, which hurts Warner's chances. He did get a raw deal.

Robelinda added 3 Minutes and 15 Seconds later...

We are no chance to get even 250 now, we dont have the firepower in the middle order to cover if White fails, then we are stuffed, Clarke will just plod us to 240.

 

[drainpipe32]

Our bowling was good in India I thought, even with a few out? Obviously at full strength it's lethal but otherwise there's always an element missing.

The ASP have become too used to security in the Warne-McGrath-Gilchrist-Hayden-Langer-Martyn era. Obviously Warner doesn't represent that so they wont insert him into the side. When we lose and it seems obvious they panic, not used to the losing situation.

Gazza added 1 Minutes and 18 Seconds later...

Well Clarke is out, not so terrible. I won't give up hope till Hussey is out but gee we need something special now.

 

[TumTum]

Warner is a great striker but he lacks any defensive technique.

 

[angryangy]

We are no chance to get even 250 now, we dont have the firepower in the middle order to cover if White fails, then we are stuffed, Clarke will just plod us to 240.

Could get 250, maybe 260; but you want 280.

 

[Robelinda]

Well that Clarke shot was truly awful, he actually thought he could hit a 6????? Bloody hell, 225 at best from here. 3-0.

Warner, well I think he does have a very good technique. Worth a good try though, the pay off could be awesome.

 

[aussie1st]

Same old story, good start by the openers but not much else after that point and pretty much since the spin has come on, we have fallen apart.

 

[Robelinda]

Hussey, all over, goodnight, 225 is a miracle from here, embarrassing stuff.

 

[mattfb]

Our bowlers need to put in a massive effort.

 

[drainpipe32]

Warner is a great striker but he lacks any defensive technique.

I don't agree with this, I just don't think he uses it enough. Even on defence he strikes it straight and true, and he's got the ability to play effectively through the V and the covers, which is the number one trait of any succesful opening batsman.

 

[Robelinda]

This is mighty embarrassing folks, we have just lost the plot completely so far this tour. Man, i dont want to wake up at 6am and watch the eng innings over breakfast, its not beyond us to bowl great. We are playing like we did in that 97 series in eng, we lost 3-0 then and looked woeful, BIG changes happened to the one day team after that series.....

All over now, though the pitch is spinning, Smith might do some damage.