The Cricket Thread 2013

[PaulWinch again]

Dernbach seems to have gone backwards as a bowler, he's all over the place lately.

[PGW]

Yuvraj out - Tredwell 3rd wkt 198-4 34.4 overs gonna be tight. Dhoni arrived at wkt

[PaulWinch again]

Dernbach has come back and taken a couple of crucial wickets.

[PGW]

45 required off 4 overs
281- 7

[PGW]

29 off 16 needed gonna be tight

[PGW]

18 off last over required only 1 wkt in hand

[PGW]

Englandwin by 9 runs.
If we had lost South Africa would have took over as 50 over No.1
We had lost 13 successive ODI's in a row in India. So a great win!!!
Good start for King of Spain. Possible MOM for Belly for his 85.

[paul_e]

Dernbach has come back and taken a couple of crucial wickets.

If dernbach bowled spells like his last few overs more often he could be fantastic, I think the problem is that his value has always been in his variation but he's trying too hard to make every ball different.  When he does well it's by bowling straight, full and altering the pace, recently he seems to be trying to change thge angles and length a lot more, and he's become wayward.

Great start from Bell and Cook, brilliant finisher job from Patel and then a excellent performance with the ball from Tredwell.  Picking between the 4 of them for MOM is tough as they all did their job exactly as needed.

[The Left Side]

Well done England and Ashley!

[Dave Cooper please]

Good start for King of Spain. Possible MOM for Belly for his 85.

MOM Tredwell by a mile. 4-44 on that wicket was brilliant.

[PaulWinch again]

82 runs from final six overs, horrendous.

[Dave Cooper please]

82 runs from final six overs, horrendous.

Only what we did to them the other day, Dhoni is the best finisher in one-day cricket. We can chase this down I reckon.

[Dave Cooper please]

Or maybe not.

[PaulWinch again]

I really don't understand why Prior isn't in the ODI team.

[paul_e]

I really don't understand why Prior isn't in the ODI team.

Indeed, Keiswetter is the better choice in T20 where he can just swing at everything but his inability to rotate the strike effectively is too big a blocker on 50overs.

Hopefully Root can get a big score though, even if we lose this a big debut score from a very talented youngster will be a great positive to take away.

For what it's worth I think we'll fall short, eithe rby giving wickets away chasing the runs or by not getting the rate up, Our only chance is for this pair to post 50-60 each, at least.