Cricket

Big hitting Alex Hales, who really has been pushing for selection and was in sparkling ODI form last summer is likely to deputise for Jonny Bairstow in tomorrow's 4th ODI.

Bairstow injured his ankle playing football, and although not ruled out is unlikely to be risked.
 
Chris O'Connor said:
Big hitting Alex Hales, who really has been pushing for selection and was in sparkling ODI form last summer is likely to deputise for Jonny Bairstow in tomorrow's 4th ODI.

Bairstow injured his ankle playing football, and although not ruled out is unlikely to be risked.
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he should play football for everton with that injury record.
 
Chris O'Connor said:
Forget anyone who dismisses this result as not being really worthy of any notice, it was some achievement.

Australia showed the first stirrings of their recovery after the ball-tampering scandal. By drawing a game they had all but lost after the first innings, against Pakistan was a remarkable fightback and will do wonders for the captaincy of Tim Paine.

The real test of a team is how they react in a dire situation and Paine will have learned a lot about his players this week.

It's a massive result for Australia, and could easily be the makings of this younger and more inexperienced team.

Steve Smith will return at some later stage and he may now return to a far more confident team.
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back to type in the next test haha
 
toffeejack said:
back to type in the next test haha
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Tbh, getting even one draw is an achievement for what is now an Aussie team shorn of their stars, who will all be back for the ashes note, unlike when we don't pick, or by any reasonable interpretation, ban ours.

So Stokes was out of the Ashes due to the non selection which was in effect a ban, and now they are acting as if missing the iconic series wasn't a ban at all, but just not picked so they can now (legally) pretend it didnt happen and ban him all over again.

The Aussies have more thought, and ban Steve Smith etc for series they're bound to lose anyway in the subcontinent plus one home series upcoming with India - which being at home they'll probably win anyway, but make damn sure they're all back ready and available for the ashes.

Australia are normally near the top of the test rankings and had ten or more years of supremacy up to 2005, they know when to select their stars. We don't, and in effect ban ours and then after twitter wants to ban them all over again, pretend it didnt happen.

Australia normally get badly beaten on the subcontinent, but as we have learnt ourselves against India, getting hammered away from home is absolutely no guide whatsoever to what will happen in their next series, There they have the huge absolutely massive advantage of playing at home.

Home advantage is so big these days that series are becoming foregone conclusions. The home side has to be miles weaker for the away side to have any chance at all.

Sri Lanka with Herath back are likely to win this test series coming up on turning wickets, despite England probably having the better all round side by some distance imo.
 
Sri Lanka made a better attempt this time - 273, but even though DL again intervened it never looked remotely enough, and Jason Roy, surely a test star in the making, made it look all too easy.

Morgan in the form of his life reversed swept the spinners on a turning pitch and Sri Lanka just couldn't cope.

Eng 132-2 won by 18 runs, they were cruising
 

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