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Scylo posted:Maxwell has an amazing ability to swing wildly at everything and never make any contact He has all the toys.
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Surely Cook will go home now. He clearly doesn't want to be there.
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Jan 12, 2014 12:05
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Airstream Driver posted:Surely Cook will go home now. He clearly doesn't want to be there. Ahahahahaha. No. That would be an admission that parts of this tour haven't gone quite as well as he and Flower would've liked. I really hope he gets "rested" for the next ODI at least.
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Jan 12, 2014 12:07
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Micky Arthur has gotta be feeling a bit poo poo right about now.
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Jan 12, 2014 12:07
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Cook needs a hug.
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Jan 12, 2014 12:07
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Nothing sums his feelings of the tour more than picking his teeth while Stokes took that catch Warner skied.
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Jan 12, 2014 12:12
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Samit should've been picked for this.
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Jan 12, 2014 12:13
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The Deadly Hume posted:Cook needs a hug. It's starting to be an old yeller situation, someone just take him out the back and shoot him.
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Jan 12, 2014 12:16
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Clarke might be a maniac but at least he is commanding. I know its something that isn't easy to learn but Cook could do with trying to copy a bit of that. You wouldn't get an Australian bowler demanding a field change of Clarke like Cooks bowlers do of him. Clarke is certainly more of an AB style skipper.
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Jan 12, 2014 12:16
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Cook's biggest problem is he's too nice.
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Jan 12, 2014 13:38
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I think all the English plans are printed out by a computer at the start of the day and he is too polite to question the nice computer. It turns out the computer is just a midget in a cardboard box getting fed information by Ashley Giles like the Mechanical Turk
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Jan 12, 2014 13:42
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I honestly reckon he's so frazzled that he's not thinking properly at the moment. He said they were only 20 runs off par and it was the bowling which let them down. No son, it was about 50 runs off par. That's always been a problem with England though, it's like they think anything over 250 can be defended and anything else is a bonus. On one day pitches these days you need to be looking at 320 as par, and even that might be conservative in some places (India).
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Jan 12, 2014 14:41
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TG-Chrono posted:ABC with a sick burn there. boom
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Jan 12, 2014 15:03
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"Cook should win the dress up competition today"
"Why's that?"
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Scylo posted:Maxwell has an amazing ability to swing wildly at everything and never make any contact where did the big show nickname even come from anyway
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Jan 12, 2014 15:10
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According to the commentary he gave it to himself.
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Jan 12, 2014 15:13
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i can imagine it probably got him another 100k in the IPL
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Lionel Richie posted:I honestly reckon he's so frazzled that he's not thinking properly at the moment. He said they were only 20 runs off par and it was the bowling which let them down. No son, it was about 50 runs off par. That's always been a problem with England though, it's like they think anything over 250 can be defended and anything else is a bonus. On one day pitches these days you need to be looking at 320 as par, and even that might be conservative in some places (India). I dunno. If they held their catches, and didn't have to rely on 30 overs from medium pacers and a part time spinner 270 was eminently defendable.
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Jan 12, 2014 15:22
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I just give up with this side. Its quite possibly the greatest fall in modern cricket. As I said before, remember that this is a side that came within 20 minutes of bad light of a 4-0 series victory in England. Had in the last 2 years beaten everyone that they needed to and were still only 1 player different the team that were deservedly number 1 in the world. Now I wouldnt bet on us beating the Kiwis. Think about that.
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Jan 12, 2014 15:41
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serious gaylord posted:Had in the last 2 years beaten everyone that they needed to and were still only 1 player different the team that were deservedly number 1 in the world. Oh dear. I know it's all falling to pieces but let's be serious. You were never better than South Africa, the vagaries of the ICC's magic co-efficient formula don't mean poo poo when you haven't managed to actually beat the best team in the world in a series in recent history. For reference, 2012 SAF win 2-0 in England. 2010 1-1 Draw in SAF. 2008 SAF win 2-1 in England.
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Jan 12, 2014 16:33
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You beat whats in front of you, and that south african team beat England yes, but then they dropped the ball afterwards. The ranking system isnt about since series victories, its about seasonal performance. The ability to maintain that performance over the course of the year, not just ramp it up for a few matches and then bottle the next.
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Jan 12, 2014 16:37
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Congratulations on Duckworth-Lewis'ing your way in to that one then. Nice that the glory days of English cricket have such a big asterisk on them.
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Jan 12, 2014 16:39
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why are people bothered that england lost a one dayer? the last thing we want is an ashley giles coached side doing well. it's pretty funny how bad england are at one day cricket historically tho. it still makes me chuckle a bit that vaughan and fletcher decided the best way to play in powerplays was to conserve wickets. like, they thought that and were getting paid to think up the tactics. actual money they got for that.
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thehappyprince posted:why are people bothered that england lost a one dayer? the last thing we want is an ashley giles coached side doing well. I think people are bothered that England's captain courageous was so thrilled by getting an important wicket that he sat there picking his teeth like he was at home watching it on a couch. He clearly doesn't give a poo poo win or lose.
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Jan 12, 2014 18:49
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thehappyprince posted:why are people bothered that england lost a one dayer? the last thing we want is an ashley giles coached side doing well. It was how Vaughan justified keeping picking himself. I can't think of another specialist batsman with such a terrible one day record playing so many games.
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Lionel Richie posted:It was how Vaughan justified keeping picking himself. I can't think of another specialist batsman with such a terrible one day record playing so many games. Cook?
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Jan 12, 2014 19:01
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Cook is Viv Richards compared to Vaughan (and he's actually an alright one day batsman all being told)
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Jan 12, 2014 19:03
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Trott was pretty decent on occasion too he was just so frustratingly inconsistent in how he applied himself. Some games he'd come out and look to score singles all the time. Others he'd want to go the hoik and get out.
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Clarke is certainly more of an AB style skipper. Also manages to take utterly poo poo sides and get wins out of them with the help of a surprisingly good coach. The Border-Simpson partnership really looks like it's being replicated in Clarke-Lehmann.
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Jan 12, 2014 22:00
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Genuine question; who thought it was a good idea to pick three bowlers? I know you have Stokes to bowl 10 and Bopara and Root to share the last few; but it still seems really dumb, especially when you have a few guys who've been on tour all winter who haven't played at all...
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IceAgeComing posted:Genuine question; who thought it was a good idea to pick three bowlers? I know you have Stokes to bowl 10 and Bopara and Root to share the last few; but it still seems really dumb, especially when you have a few guys who've been on tour all winter who haven't played at all... I genuinely think this is a giant attempt by England to sabotage everything so Giles gets put in charge, but then hes still incompetent and picks a team like this.
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Jan 12, 2014 23:28
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They're not good enough to pull off a deliberately-poo poo play.
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Jan 12, 2014 23:32
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At least the English women's team still knows how to play.
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About the Women's Ashes - I heard somewhere that Ian Healy's niece was the Australian wicket-keeper. But I didn't see a 'Healy' on the score sheet. Is that coz she is his sisters daughter, (hence having a different surname), or is she only keeping for Qld.?
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Her name is Alyssa Healy, daughter of Ian Healy's brother. From my limited knowledge of women's cricket, I think she is second choice keeper at this point behind the Australian captain Jodie Fields.
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BrigadierSensible posted:About the Women's Ashes - I heard somewhere that Ian Healy's niece was the Australian wicket-keeper. But I didn't see a 'Healy' on the score sheet. Is that coz she is his sisters daughter, (hence having a different surname), or is she only keeping for Qld.? She isn't in the side (Jodie Fields is the wicketkeeper). This is her http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa_Healy
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Jan 13, 2014 05:59
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Jan 13, 2014 10:42
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do you want the thrill of watching someone shave mitchell johnson? http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2014/1/14/mitch-mo-continues-to-hog-limelight
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If England don't beat the Tony Abbott XI tonight, I shall be ashamed and every sane person should be as well
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