michaeljennings
Active Member
Re: The Official Cricket Thread
I wouldnt say theyre no hope, theyve got a better shot than india atm i reckon. Hales and lumb really need to be in their one day team though and bell should bat down the order and gary ballance should be booted outare you a pom? cause they suck big time atm, almost no hopes for the world cups coming up
i dont think you watch england play very much lol judging by these comments. They relied on morgan and buttler heavily in the one day series purely because of the slow starts they were getting off to due to cook being out of form and england experimenting with their number 3 and 4, change the team and bring in players in form like hales and lumb and morgan and buttler dont need to do as much because theres not as much scoreboard pressure due to their own run rate. And bopara wasnt smashing them because there was no real pressure on, he scored 65 off like 25 balls, he was smashing them cos the deck was heaps good and the boundaries were tiny. Yea fair enough theres not much pressure in the last over but he only hit 3 of his 8 sixes in that last over..Bopara played well yes but the rest flopped again as usual. England rely way too much on morgan and buttler (apart from yesterday). If they make the runs they go close to winning or even winnnig the match but if they get out cheap then England cant win. Also Bopara was smashing em cause he had no real pressure on, come on 33 runs from the final over youd say to yourslf i cant hit 6 6's so may as well have some fun and try to swing as hard as i can?