saha didn't contribute a lot , I do wonder whether under dhoni's captaincy if india would have been quite as aggressive in chasing the win on the last day tho
India were quite aggressive in Wellington when chasing 400 something.
Although India wouldn't be quite aggressive with the ball although under dhoni India wouldn't concede 4+ in the game.
"The fact is that we’ve not taken one-day cricket as seriously as other nations. It’s always the period where we rest cricketers, and that clearly has to change going forward. In terms of the two series we’ve had so far [against Sri Lanka, home and away], firstly the whole of English cricket was being traumatised by what had gone on in Australia and the subsequent fall-out of Andy Flower going and of Kevin’s decision [sic] et cetera. We were trying to find our feet. As it is, we played pretty well on a couple of occasions and lost the series 3-2.
"Against India, we’d just come back from playing terrific cricket in Test matches and in a way didn’t adjust and got caught cold. But at least by Headingley we showed that actually we can play one-day cricket. And again on this trip we’ve lost another series, but actually I think the positives far outweigh the negatives, particularly given that in the end, what is this about? It’s about getting the best 15 to go to Australia and win the World Cup for England.
"We have to produce a side that certainly by 2019 will go to that World Cup as favourites, or one of the favourites at least, and I think it will happen by [the Champions Trophy of] 2017 when you look at the group of young players we’ve got now.
'not taken one-day cricket as seriously ' is a bit of an understatement.
Withdrawing players from important one day county cup matches kills so much media coverage for counties.
Early days yet, 300 is gettable, though maybe not by an England side.
Not sure how you can call them retards, when the facts back them up. India do struggle to win away from home. They cracked under the pressure in the last 20 odd overs in this match. The retards are the ones that insist that India can win away from home, when clearly they cant.
When they start to win on a regular basis away from home, then maybe people will change their tune. Until then they wont, nor should they.
So we tried cook and Ali to open and hales to x one in at 3. Why try something you are not going to do ever and more importantly with cook in the side under performing every game. Just drop him.
So we tried cook and Ali to open and hales to x one in at 3. Why try something you are not going to do ever and more importantly with cook in the side under performing every game. Just drop him.
Cook will never be dropped. Clearly he is in possession of a sex tape featuring senior figures at the ECB
morgan, and hales, fly straight out to Australia now for the big bash so gotta hope they can both find some form in the same conditions we will see in the world cup
Thinking about it, they could have had an original big clearout, KP included but what did they do, they simply went with a blame culture sacrificial offering of KP.
Thankfully, KP isn't even in good enough form to come back.
Thinking about it, they could have had an original big clearout, KP included but what did they do, they simply went with a blame culture sacrificial offering of KP.
Thankfully, KP isn't even in good enough form to come back.
cant really say what sort of form he would have been in if he hadn't been discarded by England and ended up playing hardly any cricket this year
regardless of the reasons why, we have ended up having to replace 2 guys who were probably set in stone for the world cup XI a year ago , and with other players hopelessly out of form we just don't have any alternatives that have been given any games
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India were quite aggressive in Wellington when chasing 400 something.
Although India wouldn't be quite aggressive with the ball although under dhoni India wouldn't concede 4+ in the game.
Makes it all more silly considering Downton is planning for the 2019 world cup.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/11295766/Alastair-Cook-is-natural-leader-of-England-as-managing-director-backs-captain-to-score-World-Cup-ton.html
cant see us getting 303 to win
Withdrawing players from important one day county cup matches kills so much media coverage for counties.
Early days yet, 300 is gettable, though maybe not by an England side.
51-3 after 13 overs.......under 4 an over so far
300 is looking unlikely......:o
India do not tour well even in England
So is 200
What a shameful bunch of under-performing players. Surely Morgan should be dropped from the team now?
Yeah. It's a bit of a joke we seem to win 1 game in every series and that is it.
Cook will never be dropped. Clearly he is in possession of a sex tape featuring senior figures at the ECB
with the unconditional support and superlatives they throw in his direction he must have been a participant
I ran a spell checker on it.
:eek:
Good effort from Root though. He's the man.
we look farther away from knowing the best XI for feb 14th now than we were before the tour started
and right on cue, he gets Tredwell stumped by his old buddy Sanga:)
I agree
what surprised me was Cook's ODI average in Australia
The way tptb have been supporting him saying the conditions will suit him
I assumed his average would be 45-50 but it's less than 30 in 5 games with a HS of 44
With him and Morgan continually under-performing, we aren't going to beat an average team let alone a good one
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/11728.html?class=2;home_or_away=2;host=2;opposition=2;template=results;type=allround
morgan, and hales, fly straight out to Australia now for the big bash so gotta hope they can both find some form in the same conditions we will see in the world cup
Thankfully, KP isn't even in good enough form to come back.
cant really say what sort of form he would have been in if he hadn't been discarded by England and ended up playing hardly any cricket this year
regardless of the reasons why, we have ended up having to replace 2 guys who were probably set in stone for the world cup XI a year ago , and with other players hopelessly out of form we just don't have any alternatives that have been given any games
the Australian physio must be one of the busiest people in sport atm