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*Official* Australia v England post-Ashes ODI series

quincywagstaff

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Yeah he was really good early on when Smith had to make up reasons for not bowling him.
Yeah, noticed for a fair while Smith doesn’t have faith in him when even bowling well. Pointlessly bringing Head on in Adelaide with Oz totally dominant instead of Zampa summer it up. Sure, Zampa has been ordinary this series but he hasn’t been helped by his captain.
 

stephen

Well-known member
Smith has a theory that the ball has to be turning away from the bat so he'll bring on a crap off spinner to a lefty even if he could bowl Warne.
 

Burgey

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Weird theory isn't it? You just have to dart the ****ing thing in when you're playing LO cricket ffs. Turning it isn't even a prerequisite.
 

91Jmay

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Looks like Willey went large against a select XI. Fair to call that an A team though? Looks like 11 good players rather than the usual postman they hauled in to keep wicket.

34 off an over against Lyon. Ending a T20 'career'?
 
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Bijed

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Looks like Willey went large against a select XI. Fair to call that an A team though? Looks like 11 good players rather than the usual postman they hauled in to keep wicket.

34 off an over against Lyon
. Ending a T20 'career'?
David Willey in one over > Moeen Ali in the whole Ashes?
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Fair to call that an A team though?
That'd be generous, but it was certainly better than the usual CA XIs and Select XIs that get rolled out. It's followed the usual tour game selection policy of "players who aren't busy doing anything else", but that was just an unusually large pool this week as the Big Bash had reached the semi finals stage.
 

91Jmay

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That'd be generous, but it was certainly better than the usual CA XIs and Select XIs that get rolled out. It's followed the usual tour game selection policy of "players who aren't busy doing anything else", but that was just an unusually large pool this week as the Big Bash had reached the semi finals stage.
Yeah, if they are all actual professionals in any kind of tour game globally nowadays the travelling team is lucky.

Looked quite a cool ground for a tour game though, 8k in apparently.
 

Spark

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Yeah, if they are all actual professionals in any kind of tour game globally nowadays the travelling team is lucky.

Looked quite a cool ground for a tour game though, 8k in apparently.
I'm biased but it is a really nice ground. Really good location, right between the lake and the Manuka-Kingston precinct. The outfield itself too.

If they ever expand it (it feels a bit small at the moment), and work out how to make the pitch a little more even re: bat/ball balance, then it'd be a really good off-year Test venue IMO. Certainly better than Hobart with its twenty-person Test attendances
 
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