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[Gerry SA]

Pretty embarrassing from England getting strangled by T.M. Dilshan's part time off breaks

[jamesisapayne]

Pretty embarrassing from England getting strangled by T.M. Dilshan's part time off breaks

I think they're paralysed by the fear of getting out to him. I want them to give it a tonk and get him off.

[smilley792]

I reckon I could strangle england with my off spin here.

Ali Gone 1st so
bell goes back in his shell
ballance couldnt get it off square
root happy at 50sr.


snooze fest. Need an attacking 3 or Ali and hales to break the slow sr off those 3.

[golden duck]

Part of me hopes they don't bring hales in. Hold on, bare (bear?) with me.

He's not been playing, not involved and will potentially struggle to get going with alot of pressure on him to perform straight away. If/when he goes cheaply eng will just say 'look he can't do it' and screw him over a little bit more.

England have reaped what they sowed by not bringing hales through when he was t20 world no 1 batsman. Should have taken him In then and said you have till the WC to learn 50 overs cricket.

He could of been our, x factor (wash mouth out) by now.

[golden duck]

Also, what's with various commentators (cough Nick Knight, cough) saying ravi bopara should come back in?

[Gerry SA]

typical Bell gets out to a nothing delivery.

[WalkingWicket37]

Good start, Wicket, slow down, wicket, slow to a crawl, wicket.
Isn't this where the collapse usually starts?

[jamesisapayne]

An Aussie or Saffer approach to this would be to counterattack and take an aggressive stance - which I love seeing, but we always seem to want to rebuild and play out far too many dots

On a lighter note, Herath always reminds me of Martin Lawrence for some reason

[SLC]

If we attack, we get out.

If we play solidly, we score slowly then get out.


I just want England to lose every game, then hopefully have a proper think about how to play ODI cricket. I saw a brilliant tweet "England unchanged going into today's game. Since 1992".

[johnnyw]

Seen earlier that England have only won 5 games against the top 8 teams in the world cup since the final in 1992

That sums up Alot about the English one day team. Even Ireland could do better than that. They have beaten 3 top 8 teams since 2007!!

[smilley792]

I think this was moores team talk.


"Right lads we aren't attacking enough....apparently. so to please the media I want us to go hard it it for the first ten. But DO NOT GET OUT.
Then revert back to our normal plan. Save wickets for the last ten. No matter how well you think your playing just block and save your wicket for the last ten. DO NOT GET OUT.
Then in the last ten we can go for it. And maybe try reach 225 for 9.
Sound good??"

[beaver5]

We've struggled since they changed the pace of their bowlers. If nothing else surely this shows that having our one dimensional attack is wrong. Treadwell and Bopara would add variety and allow us to attack/defend in different ways. Lets hope we can kick on, but I fear that 280 would get knocked off with overs to spare.

[ppccopener]

We are leaving it very late to give it some humpty.puts pressure on the lower order to make up the run rate
Ive said before we are still far behind.other teams play fearless cricket

[smilley792]

England player makes a ton at the wc shocker!!

Well batted joe. Now tea off.

[uknsaunders]

Taylor proving he should be batting 3 again.