Cricket Part II

The English side is a T20 side essentially, can’t see why we cannot do something similar and make it work?

Wouldn’t there be any room for it between BBL and IPL season. Would certainly make it easier for players with not having to switch back and forth.

We are still stuck playing a similar game to what won for us last time. Solid start, consolidate through the middle and then look to accelerate with wickets in hand; which in my opinion is outdated.

Most teams these days look to attack the opening 10 overs, T20 style batsman capable of scoring a quickfire 50 up front and push their teams towards that 80-100 mark in the PP are a must. Instead we look to ‘get ourselves in’ which often backfires and leaves us with our openers scoring 20-30 runs @80 odd which heaps pressure on our middle order.

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The other problem we have is our team is littered with only openers (well four of them anyway). It has messed up the batting order and confused the hell out of them all. We also like to move the order around a bit and that messes with the players as well.

And just for those that might query, an opener in ODI’s is very used to facing fast bowlers and a hard ball to start the innings, most of them cannot handle spin later in the innings with a sifter ball.

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All our openers struggle with the swinging new ball too

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And how many WC’s has that won them?
People were saying how poor we were leading into the last WC and we won it as per usual. I don’t take much notice of these warm up games. I’d bet next WC we will atleast make the semis

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This time we won’t have the home field advantage

Yep, played in our own back yard in conditions that suit all our batsmen. The only thing that MIGHT help us is it is in England and not the sub-continent.

We couldn’t even beat them in our own backyard with our full side

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When it comes to the World Cup you can’t bet against Australia. Must be in their DNA to perform at the WC.

If Warner and Smith are back in the team by the WC and have a fully fit Starc, Australia should rightly be one of the favorites.

Semi’s will most likely come down to
England
Australia
India
Pakistan

South Africa always have the talent to win it, but always seem to really struggle under the pressure.

That would involve compromising the Shield. The final is in March.

Couldn’t they just have the shield season start earlier? Say start it in Sept/Oct and do it in one go, not split in two?

Have the final around Xmas - then go into the limited over forms

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It already starts in October. They’d probably have to start mid August and that means they wouldn’t play on any of the ‘big’ grounds because of the AFL and the weather would also be a factor.

Couldn’t they go up north. Tailor the northern tropical pitches to replicate Sub-Continental conditions and give our players some experience in dealing with them for the first part of the season?

How many grounds are suitable for FC cricket up north? Are conditions suitable for producing dry, dusty pitches to replicate subcontinental conditions? Don’t we want our youngsters used to the Test venues before they debut?

What you are proposing is very radical!

If we are ever going to win in the sub-continent again then we need radical, out of the box thinking.

He have a luxury no other cricketing country has, an entire continent with an incredibly diverse array of both terrain and climate. If we wanted to we could replicate virtually any conditions global cricket could throw at us, we certainly have the resources to do it.

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It’d be a bold move to tailor half our season to suit subcontinental conditions and it would take years for it to bear fruit. I could see it backfiring and would hate us to abandon a lot of our traditions for a series win in India.

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Good to see our ODI form is improving.

Win toss and bowl

After 28 Overs England are struggling a bit at 1/237.

Wow we did well there not… England have broken - no smashed - their own world record ODI score of 444 by totalling a massive 6/481 off their 50 overs.

Sweet jesus, what a ■■■■■■■ pasting.All our bowlers were seen to. Tye has the figures of 2/181 from 19 overs on the last two matches. :anguished:

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