Eng v Aus ODI Cricket Series 2011

[twentythreedom]

well, as it says. i noticed the traffic had dropped right off in the ashes thread (yeah, fuck off, don't say it, i realise that, obviously)

....... so here's the all-new, singing and dancing ONE DAY INTERNATIONAL thread.

so... the t20 was 1 - 1, i sincerely hope we totally destroy the fuckers, rub their stupid, suntanned, gormless faces right in it.

straussy won the toss, as he usually does, and we're batting...

 

[twentythreedom]

raaah!! that was close.. stupid run-outs just shouldn't happen. phew.

oh dear brett lee, you are a chump.

 

[twentythreedom]

class... davies caught but gets away with it, lee bowled a no ball. ha!

 

[twentythreedom]

come on people, where are you all? call yourselves true cricket fans? yeah right. this series will sort the men from the boys!

 

[embree]

Well I'm up

Oh Trottty's out to some shit bowling, shame.

Still, good numbers so far

 

[shagnasty]

`Yes i am up too .only started watching just now,England are going along quite well

 

[embree]

Middle overs - dot ball, single to mid off, dot ball, dot ball, single to third man, single to mid on. Rinse and repeat

Nothing to see here

 

[embree]

Steve Smith taking wickets with shit balls here

 

[embree]

How many stumpings is Haddin going to miss today?

 

[embree]

STOP GETTING OUT TO SHIT SHOTS FFS

Christ, Australia aren't even bowling that well here. Smith's figures are stupidly good for someone who's basically bowled a load of filth

 

[shagnasty]

Listening on tms can't stand the commentators who are trying to sell it to you all the time.The tms commentary is i think abc their version of the beeb

 

[embree]

Monstrous six from Tremlett there.

And an utterly hilarious wide from Johnson to follow up

 

[embree]

Annoying innings tbh, should have gone well over 300

 

[embree]

Test Match Sofa making the very good point that Clarke completely buggered up the number of overs bowled by his best bowlers there so none of them were maxed out. Load of crap

 

[Dan U]

Chasing it down well the aussies, 150 for Watson, good knock.

 

[embree]

should have set them 50 more if not for getting out in really stupid ways

 

[gabi]

One man team, the Aussies. Altho Lee still looks a decent bowler. Hopefully he'll make the world cup.

 

[embree]

Lee was easily their best, which is why I can't understand why Clarke didn't give him all ten overs

 

[twentythreedom]

ok, so is this the official odi thread now? see you on friday...

 

[Idaho]

The World Cup squad baffles me. I don't understand some of their choices.

Strauss - yes
Anderson - yes
Bell - yes
Bresnan - yes
Broad - yes (ish)
Collingwood - hmm...
Morgan - yes
Pietersen - yes
Prior - yes
Shahzad - yes
Swann - yes
Tredwell - Monty surely?
Trott - Cook surely. Trott is more of a test only player than Cook in many respects.
Wright - Wtf? What is this? Nostalgia for the mid 90s?
Yardy - hmm... T20 maybe. One day?

 

[paulhackett]

The World Cup squad baffles me. I don't understand some of their choices.

Strauss - yes
Anderson - yes
Bell - yes
Bresnan - yes
Broad - yes (ish)
Collingwood - hmm...
Morgan - yes
Pietersen - yes
Prior - yes
Shahzad - yes
Swann - yes
Tredwell - Monty surely?
Trott - Cook surely. Trott is more of a test only player than Cook in many respects.
Wright - Wtf? What is this? Nostalgia for the mid 90s?
Yardy - hmm... T20 maybe. One day?

Monty? Monty! Monty!? No no no..

Agree about Wright. Read the choice was him or Bopara (who's liable to come into the Test Team ahead of Morgan for Collingwood) because he bowls.. I'd have gone for Bopara, even though Wright is another good team man (apparently).

Trott is a far better one day batsman than given credit for. Think Boycott when Close threatened to lamp him in the 1965 cup final. Collingwood needs to come good. On the plus side he can't get any worse and no-one is exactly standing out as a replacement (Wright?).

 

[twentythreedom]

strauss won the toss, we're bowling...

 

[shagnasty]

Good morning chaps

 

[twentythreedom]

easy, shags. you're only down the road from me!

 

[twentythreedom]

oh and it's "chap" at the moment

 

[twentythreedom]

ping, 2 down

 

[twentythreedom]

shahzad's on it!

 

[JimW]

This is a bit more like it!

 

[twentythreedom]

hope the fucker's pinky's busted!

 

[twentythreedom]

gotta love shahzad's in-ya-face aggression