England v Australia

[Jeff]

England won the toss and will bat first.

One change to the team, Strauss in for Joyce.

 

[highland fox]

England won the toss and will bat first.

One change to the team, Strauss in for Joyce.

Hope we win this,there was a couple of right smug fecking Aussies in the pub the other night

 

[Jeff]

10-1, Vaughan's out.

May as well just play with 10 men.

 

[Jeff]

24-2, Strauss out.

6 overs gone.

 

[highland fox]

Hope we win this,there was a couple of right smug fecking Aussies in the pub the other night

Might stay in tonight..

 

[MKFox]

We let them feckers off there. bollocks

 

[glyn]

wasted opportunity. hope I eat my words but the Aussies will knock 250 off easily. funny that KP will get stick even after making a century, for playing for his ton rather than the team in overs 43-47

 

[Brauny Blue]

10-1, Vaughan's out.

May as well just play with 10 men.

9 men surely. Is there any point of Freddie being there

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

england blown it yet again...vaughan is crap

 

[Brauny Blue]

Poor by England again. They deserve to be knocked out.

 

[CM]

wasted opportunity. hope I eat my words but the Aussies will knock 250 off easily. funny that KP will get stick even after making a century, for playing for his ton rather than the team in overs 43-47

He looked strangely subdued after he reached his 50, I think the heat may have got to him as he seemed to struggle. Its obvious where the problem was though, our four most experienced batsmen getting 18 runs between them. What a joke. 247 was 60/70 runs short of what we needed so I kind of feel sorry for the bowlers.

Mahmood dross again after bowling well against SL. I really think we should drop him until we know what to expect from him. Plunkett is an effective late order slogger too, or we could play Broad...

I'm not too downbeat though. I knew we'd lose today and it was quite a narrow one so (in terms of net run rate) so if we win our last three then we will still qualify. Although not sure how likely that is at this point in time.

 

[glyn]

9 men surely. Is there any point of Freddie being there

He's our best bowler by miles. I say put him in to open or at three on a temporary basis - since he's not adding much down the order he might as well have a pinch-hit

 

[glyn]

Mahmood dross again after bowling well against SL. I really think we should drop him until we know what to expect from him. Plunkett is an effective late order slogger too, or we could play Broad...

Still can't believe they dropped Plunkett after the Commenwealth Bank series he had...so who knows they may bring Broad in from the cold if he's been impressive in the nets.

 

[Hazzman]

Still can't believe they dropped Plunkett after the Commenwealth Bank series he had...so who knows they may bring Broad in from the cold if he's been impressive in the nets.

Same here considering the success he had against certain Aussie batsman.

Mahmood has been shocking and doesnt deserve to be anyway near the squad.

 

[Joe_Fox]

Get Broad in, he's more enthusiastic that big Saj who are far as I can see is completely lost out there.