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[FattusCattus]

Time for a Buttler / Morgs / Moeen special here.  Need to whack a few and put them on the back foot.

[rickjames]

The capitulation begins. Poor again from Buttler.

[csnew]

Has woakes ever passed double figures in odi cricket? Odd decision to play him ahead of Wiley

[smilley792]

This be old England. Collapse is on.

When was last time buttler scored runs in a few games in a row??

#bringbackbairstow

[rajesh500]

Moeen should come up the order

[smilley792]

All over!! England 9 down still needing 74.


Hales Roy taylor(mainly the later two) got us off to the start we needed. But England getting bogged down in the middle cost us



Aus bowled well eventually.

[Alvaro]

A good game of cricket. England needed one of Roy, Taylor or Morgan to hammer it home. Never mind, still thing they're on the right track. Would just swap Stokes with Mo, who at least has some shots to the spinner.

[lazza32]

Taylor is my favourite current English player. Love his attitude

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[ca_gold]

Little confused why mo bats lower than stokes and butler. Isn't he a proper batsmen?

[tim2000s]

Little confused why mo bats lower than stokes and butler. Isn't he a proper batsmen?

Who knows? He's a better "biffer" of the ball than either as well as he plays proper cricket shots and can be a very fast scoring batsman!

[ScottParko]

Ben Stokes is a 'proper' batter too....

[northernboy1987]

Ben Stokes is a 'proper' batter too....

I agree, I think both Ali and Stokes are more "proper" batters than Buttler but that does not take away from Buttlers obvious ability, I haven't seen many strike the ball like he does, his timing of big shots and his hand eye co-ordination are rivaled only by Morgan in the England team (in my humble opinion of course) and although he hasn't been in great nick recently, I don't think there's any doubting his importance to the side in all 3 formats, I think it was Cook himself who described Buttler as "the heartbeat of the team" along with Stokes and Root.

[Northern monkey]

I enjoyed the game yesterday.
Good to see England finally competing, one day wise

Rashid had a nice bit of variety with his bowling
Taylor's batting can only get better, the more chances he's given,(imagine him and Root batting together )
I like Stokes attitude and commitment
I'm not convinced with alis batting, but at least he's not afraid to take on the bowling
Buttler, hmm not convinced
Wood, yeah big fan

[smilley792]

Id say selection was because.


Buttler stokes used to b 7 and 8 and everyone said they was wasted.moved up order they initaily scored runs.

Root out so Taylor to replace. But then a bowler short!

Moeen in as he can bowl offies but bat in our random specialist batting slot. No7.

Harsh on billings and Willey in my opinion. But then do we want England to chop and change after 1 loss?
I'd like to see Willey back in atleast. But reckon we will remain unchanged.

[WalkingWicket37]

Willey is better with bat and ball than Woakes, and being a left armer he adds a bit of variety to the attack.
Can't understand the decision to change them round after Willey did nothing wrong earlier in the summer