summerisle
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summerisle
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…I think the manner of that win was important for England. They needed to scrape home & that will do them no harm In this tournament.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Excellent hard won win for England by 26 runs. Brilliant Buttler again, hope Mills' injury isn't too bad.
Great win that. Brilliant from Buttler obviously and then a really good performance with the ball and in the field too. Good to get a win on the board while batting first too.
Chris O'Connor
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That was a huge test for the potential world champions. England dared to go for it when they were in serious trouble, what a contrast to India who plodded along to an apology of a total against NZ. Sri Lanka are like Scotland and Namibia only a qualifier but there the similarity ends.
Sri Lanka are a proper team armed with good cricketers who probably would have been vying for second place had they been in the easy group instead. Unfortunately for them they drew the short straw and losing the toss against Australia and South Africa added to their bad luck.
Jos Buttler is beyond words, just remarkable to watch
Sri Lanka are a proper team armed with good cricketers who probably would have been vying for second place had they been in the easy group instead. Unfortunately for them they drew the short straw and losing the toss against Australia and South Africa added to their bad luck.
Jos Buttler is beyond words, just remarkable to watch
BigMick
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Agree, Sri Lanka look a team transformed from the rag bag outfit we saw last summer. Several players with real potential.
And Buttler - yes, beyond words.
I'll add a few words for Livingstone too - bowling those overs under extreme pressure - it shows just how hard he's worked on his bowling in the last couple of years.
Chris O'Connor
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Yes Livingstone may have done nothing with the bat but he's been invaluable as a sixth bowler if needed, and gives an option to bowl instead of one of the other regular bowlers too.
Have to hand it to Eoin Morgan for coming through such adversity in the imbalance of conditions and fortune (Mills injury) to still pick up a win against all the odds when they were 40-3. They had the toss against them which was exacerbated by an unusually heavy dew. This made conditions massively better for the team batting second, bowlers couldn't grip the ball and it skidded on nicely onto the bat. To then lose a bowler through injury too and have to reorganize the bowling strategy with a sixth bowler took nerves of steel and calm thinking under severe pressure.
At 40 odd for 3 having used up all the batting power play 6 overs and knowing batting second would be so much easier, England couldn't afford to do an 'India' and just plod along to nowhere fast, but had to look to consolidate before exploding to a competitive total. That took supreme skill from the world's best T20 batsman and courage from Morgan to stay in and support him (forget the rankings they're bonkers, Malan just isn't the world's number one, one hundredth maybe).
Chris O'Connor
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Important to note the semis will be in the richer and more populous Dubai and Abu Dhabi which will suit England down to the ground. The South Africa game should be the last for them on the slow used wickets of Sharjah.
Yesterday's was a wicket used for the third time, no wonder if was a tough ask to score quickly on, so slow and against such a tricky spin attack. The mystery spinner Hasaranga proved far too good for a few of the top order with his googlies trapping two of them with the first ball he bowled to them.
Buttler is England's best ever T20 batsman, currently easily the best T20 batsman in the world and far ahead of the official and ridiculously ranked official world number one, his compatriot Dawid Malan (and well ahead of India's misfiring best too). Nowhere are averages more meaningless than in T20, unless it is in T10. Dawid Malan by this yardstick is superior to Buttler, averaging 41 to Buttler’s 34, but Malan’s days in the side might be numbered in single figures.
Yesterday's was a wicket used for the third time, no wonder if was a tough ask to score quickly on, so slow and against such a tricky spin attack. The mystery spinner Hasaranga proved far too good for a few of the top order with his googlies trapping two of them with the first ball he bowled to them.
Buttler is England's best ever T20 batsman, currently easily the best T20 batsman in the world and far ahead of the official and ridiculously ranked official world number one, his compatriot Dawid Malan (and well ahead of India's misfiring best too). Nowhere are averages more meaningless than in T20, unless it is in T10. Dawid Malan by this yardstick is superior to Buttler, averaging 41 to Buttler’s 34, but Malan’s days in the side might be numbered in single figures.
……England fast bowler Tymal Mills ruled out for the rest of the tournament.
summerisle
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Aussies heading to a thumping win : Bangladesh 45-5, 7.4 overs.
Hopefully Wood will be fit enough to step in.
Chris O'Connor
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The main problem with picking Mark Wood are twofold really.
1. His continuing injury problems mean he probably needs protecting if possible with the Ashes coming up. Without Archer it hardly needs stressing how important a fully fit Wood is at Brisbane.
2. Putting aside injury worries though, his suitability for replacing Tymal Mills death bowling at the end compromises picking him for what he's really good at. Wood's real strengths are bowling in the power play, steaming in and hurling it down very fast. He's also, like South Africa's demon quick Nortje, used as an enforcer in the middle overs 7-16 a role he's meds essentially his alone when he's fit and firing.
I reckon England may take the opportunity to drop the official world number one T20 batsman Dawid Malan (T20 rankings really are absolutely useless and misleading) who's clearly struggling this year in this format and finding slow pitches very difficult to bat on.
So Malan and the injured Mills out and Wood and either Willey or Topley in.
Losing a toss and trying to defend a total in heavy dew with a wet ball while committed to having to deliver 8 overs of spin is a major weakness. England could be in trouble if they lose a crucial toss and have to bat first and defend in the dew. Having Willey coming in at 8 gives Morgan an extra seamer and not have to be committed to bowling 8 overs of spin in heavy dew. Alternatively the left arm Topley could replace Mills left armers at the death. Topley has been right in form for Surrey in white ball cricket and has height too.
Roy, Buttler, Bairstow, Morgan, Ali, Livingstone, Woakes, (Willey), Jordan, Rashid, Wood
Or Topley bats at 11 with Jordan, Rashid and Wood moving up one place
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There's a maximum of 12 overs for him to bowl in the tournament. Of course he could get injured any day he bowls, but it's not a workload that would worry me. The South Africa game is meaningless, so there's probably no point playing him in that, but I'd definitely want him to play in the knockout stage.
Chris O'Connor
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I'm thinking of what he's good at too, he's wasted as a death ball bowler imo, but I would pick him as part of a two seamer solution with Malan making way. Heavy dew and absolutely committed to eight overs of spin with a soaking wet ball makes the toss all too crucial. Malan looks well short of form and struggling badly.
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