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[Sam]

Interesting start here then. Gurney and Carberry make Int T20 debuts and Gurney bowled a decent over to start with. Woakes shouldnt be playing any white ball cricket for England in my opinion.

[csnew]

Woakes not good enough with bat or ball.
Interesting recall for bell, should have played in the WC

[csnew]

Pretty poor bowling to perera. Full tosses and half volleys.
New death bowlers, same old story. Shocking over from Jordan

[Sam]

Hopefully the slightly better batting lineup in comparison will make up for it.

[FattusCattus]

A couple of thoughts on today's game -

The Sri Lankan spinner - Seriously?!?! Is that action legal? It's just looks wrong on every level. To the untrained eye of a clubbie, it just looks like a chuck.

Secondly, big piece of wood old Jordans was swinging - cheeky little MIDS branding on the sides   Hope he bowls well today, I'd like him in the test side.

[Manormanic]

To the trained eye of a qualified umpire (me) it looks like a chuck.  There is a reason for that...

[Gerry SA]

Two questions

What's the point of Ravi Bopara? His batting is way overrated. His bowling is dreadful. He struts around as if he's the new IVA Richards.

And is Buttler really a consideration for the Test side? His wicketkeeping is damn awful...surely Kieswetter should be next in line.

[joeljonno]

Ravi is the one of the best finishers in World cricket. Finisher of what, not so sure.

Buttler ain't that bad and Kieswetter isn't that much better either. I'm confident it will be Prior if fit. If you want pure wicketkeeping, you'd put Foster streets ahead of Buttler and Kiessy. 

[smilley792]

Two questions

What's the point of Ravi Bopara? His batting is way overrated. His bowling is dreadful. He struts around as if he's the new IVA Richards.

And is Buttler really a consideration for the Test side? His wicketkeeping is damn awful...surely Kieswetter should be next in line.

King ravi. Nothing more needs to be said.

Buttler needs to improve, but with the bat i feel he could do a gilchrist esque role. Take games away from oppo. But i fear hes not ready yet.

steve davies seems to have retired from stumping at the wrong time.

[FattusCattus]

He's got 3 wickets tonight, but is anyone else concerned about Tredwell?

He doesn't seem to be that threatening and is certainly going for a lot of runs recently.

I believe he's out of the Kent side at the moment due to loss of form / confidence - is he the best ODI spinning prospect we have?

[smilley792]

Batting.

What do people think to our batting performance? 247 wasn't a bad effort from 39overs after the slow start(thinking there playing 50) bell, root, ballance should have really kicked on for a ton though,
Nice to watch England have a play like Jordan than can just muller it too.


I'd still prefer an attacking approach in the power play. Hales for cook!

[WalkingWicket37]

Bell - need I say more
Root - starting to live up to his promise without making a big score
Ballance - looking more comfortable at this level
Gurney - will be interesting how he progresses
Tredwell - needs to be replaced in my opinion
Jordan - genuinely excited by him, test side soon?

Who got man of the match by the way?? (Jordan for me)

[smilley792]

Jordan was man of the match,


Feel sorry for root, not just test but Odis and t20 s now he gets shuffled about.
He can score fast and hit sixes(not many in the ipl hit Malinga out of the ground) yet he always gets dropped down the order.
Upping Morgan failed today!

[MJB3]

He's got 3 wickets tonight, but is anyone else concerned about Tredwell?

He doesn't seem to be that threatening and is certainly going for a lot of runs recently.

I believe he's out of the Kent side at the moment due to loss of form / confidence - is he the best ODI spinning prospect we have?

Sums up the problem with the English spin cupboard at the minute, bare at the highest level.

Tredwell will do a job most days, but what other viable option is there really? Do England have a wicket taking, match winning spinner?

[Tumo]

Yes, and his name is Simon bloody Kerrigan! But if you do insist we head down this far too trodden path...

Ollie Rayner had a stormer last year. Yes, unfancied, but you don't take a 15-fer unless you're doing something really right!
Adil Rashid really, REALLY needs to be persisted with, and actually used as a bowler.
Jigar Naik takes wickets at a really unfancied county, and never really disappoints.
Adam Riley - is definitely coming on as a bowler. A bit far off at the moment, but there is always the possibility.

Monty is always worth a talk about, and certain other spinners seem to go under the radar. David Wainwright, for one. But I'll stick my neck out and say Kerrigan will go the distance with England. Excellent prospect, excellent record!