England win on Australia Day
England haven’t won an ODI in Adelaide since 1983, so I’m unclear on the rules. Does this mean we get the country back?
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Watson dominated the Australian innings, leaving England reeling in field with their bowling plans in shreds. It was a superb knock one of the best one day innings I’ve seen and deservedly took the victory, something of a personal triumph for Watson who throughout the Test series looked all set for match winning innings and never quite managed it.
The match itself was a great advert for one day cricket and we can now look forward to a very close series, who said one day cricket was boring?
Who’s afraid of the MCG?
England are, unable to hit sixes until the 4th ball of the last over they seemed to be caught in the headlights obsessed with the size of the ground. Sure you should be taking advantage of the wide space to turn those singles into twos and run the odd three or four but you need to spread the field by taking boundaries first, you can’t run everything. Chris Woakes showed how it was done with a beautiful 101m hit but it was too late, Australia had restricted England well but it the lack of English ambition with the bat that lost it in the end.
This photo just about sums up Shane Watson’s day, destructive with both bat and ball he could easily have swung the game in Australia’s favour, without him Australia would have been a shambles. However Watson was powerless to resist his own frailties with the bat and the England’s seemingly never ending Twenty20 bandwagon.
Alas if only Watson could bat past 60 Australia might well have walked it…
England giving it away…
Serves me right for sledging Australia during a Twenty20 innings, but England are giving it away here.
Pietersen’s wicket was an unnecessary shot, needing just over a run a ball he’d already got ten off the first two balls and couldn’t content himself with manoeuvring it around having pushed the field back. Couple that with rash shots from Bresnan and Morgan and careless batting from Yardy has left the tail enders to mop it up. Credit to Australia for sticking in there but this should have been England’s from the moment they restricted Australia to 157.
Tension building…
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They’re catching them in the crowd get ‘em playing
Nassier Hussain sums up Australia’s dodgy catching to a tee, they’re letting England off the hook here.
