Not really a surprise to me that England get off to a flier, then get pegged back by 2-3 wickets around the 100 mark. The England tail looks long and thin, Yardy only averages 16.27 in ODIs now and that's with the aid of SIX not outs in 17 innings. He's like Wright, but in for his bowling more than batting. But to bat at seven he needs to produce more innings of note, not the one fifty and nothing else higher than 20 that he's returned so far.
He has bowled in every ODI so far, but despite bowling at least four overs in every ODI to date, he still doesn't bowl out that often or indeed nine overs for that matter
0-3 overs (0 ODIs) : n/a
4-7 overs (9 ODIs) : 49 overs, 3 wkts @ 78.67 (SR 98.00, ER 4.82)
8-10 overs (10 ODIs) : 93 overs, 11 wkts @ 34.45 (SR 53.45, ER 3.87)
Those figures against 8-10 overs do include 3/41 off 10 overs against Scotland and 3/24 off 10 overs against Pakistan. Against the aussies before this ODI he has taken 2/203 off 52 overs @ 101.50 with a good ER (3.90) but awful SR (156.00) If we're going to include a second spinner then perhaps it should be a more wicket taking spinner.
aussies off to a good start, but then so were England. Like England's lower order, a 'tail' of Smith, Johnson, Doherty, Lee and Bollinger is long and thin looking. Gotta love the BBC, they put in initials of players when there is only one in the side or country, but when there's two Hussey's they don't bother to differentiate as to which one bowled!
(or took catches, or indeed seem to have noticed they put 'Hussey' in twice)