England vs Australia one day thread

[Dave Cooper please]

Bit of a let down that, should have won easily.

Meh.
T20 is just glorified baseball.

It's okay for an evening out at Edgbaston or Worcester but I can't take it seriously.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Should have won.
This shows how difficult the one dayers are going to be.

Collingwood is starting to look like a liability.

Needs form with the bat and quickly.

[TheTimVilla]

Agree about Colly; he's infamous for performing brilliantly when desperate, but not so far... Drawn series, not the end of the world. The proper business starts Sunday.

[VillaZogmariner]

It didn't help that we only hit 1 six in the innings - and that was in the last over!

[TheTimVilla]

We didn't hit many fours either. It appears that Finch was the difference. Looks like he played the Morgan rôle.

[PaulWinch again]

Not good again.

[taylorsworkrate]

Got to give credit to Watson for an incredible innings. 

Still when you are 130/2 after 20 overs, you really should be getting 320/330 easily.

[Dave Cooper please]

Not too worried, the Ashes were what this tour was all about. Now we just need to fine tune the one-day side before the World Cup.

Today we were just beaten by a brilliant innings, very little you can do when a batsman just clicks.

[cdbearsfan]

Nice to see England letting one of the developing nations get a couple of wins under their belt.

Hopefully the sport will take off in Australia now and the locals might start turning up for matches.

[VillaZogmariner]

An excellent start from England, but White and Marsh have dug in. Still fancy us to restrict them to below 200 and should win this one.

[VillaZogmariner]

Well it should've been below 200, but Doug the Rug hung around too long!

Good century by Swampy too.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Should never have let them score that many.

It's a gettable target.

Tremlett was brilliant.

[PaulWinch again]

Hmmm we are making a hash of this, I don't know why but I'm not really happy with our batting line up in ODIs at the moment. We just seem to have too many 'all-rounders' and are a bit light.

[OzVilla]

I'm not overly fussed as it feels like so much after the Lord Mayors Show here. 

I honestly think after nearly 3 months here the Test players should be playing a couple of games and then going home for a rest or have gone after the last Test Match and come back in for the last two One Dayers.

We need to be mentally fresh for the World Cup and right now a few are looking mentally tired and playing tired shots.

I've not seen much of England in limited overs Cricket so I might be missing something but can somebody please tell me what Yardy offers at all.  I'm really struggling to see it, same goes for Luke Wright tbh.

[PaulWinch again]

Yardy is useful in that he ties up an end well, but he shouldn't be batting that high. Also he goes through his overs very quick, and it can force teams into panicking about run rate. Wright though for me offers very little, he occasionally gets a score through slogging but generally gets nothing. His bowling offers very little as well. As I said earlier, I think we have too many 'all-rounders' who don't really offer enough in either department.