England v Australia, 1st ODI, The Oval, Sep 4

Will be nice to watch some cricket that doesn't have a little urn at stake...

Liked this from the preview of the 1st ODI in the Tele...

Likely teams
Australia: Ponting (capt), Watson, Warner, (wkt), D Hussey, Clarke, Voges, White, Johnson, Lee, Hauritz, Nannes.

It's almost as if they don't know who's in the Aussie ODI squad or even who's in the country atm.

Terrible journalism.

7-0 Aus

Terrible foruming.

You've not seen our ODI side then. All over the shop.

More realistically 5-1 or 4-2 with one washed out then.

They had the right idea in 2005 by having the ODI and 20/20 nonsense take place before the real stuff. I actually quite enjoyed the ODI series in 2005.

I'm not even sure that I'll watch them this time I couldn't care less. If we win 7-0 or lose 7-0 I'm not bothered.

Having said that though if we had been battered before the ashes then maybe we wouldn't have won.

4 -3 England.

But realistically .......... W really GAF now that that tiny Urn is in safe keeping!

Realistically Oz 4-1 with 2 rained out!

I've no idea what side we'll play - the selectors haven't even called up Jon Trott FFS - what's that all about?

Looks very middling with no KP or Fred there for sure.

Fark knows, considering he has had an exceptional season in all formss, just got a good 150 runs in a pressure situation at the Oval, and we are gashlords in the batting department in all forms.

Very middling, only two batters with any real form as such in Strauss on form and the Shah as probably our best batter in ODI's behind KP for the last year or so?!

JKLever wrote:I've no idea what side we'll play - the selectors haven't even called up Jon Trott FFS - what's that all about?

Looks very middling with no KP or Fred there for sure.

Aye, if Flintoff does retire through injury then our ODI side is totally farked. I mean even with him there we don't tend to do well, but he's arguably the best ODI player England have ever produced.

England's one-day cricket - Plan A is Pietersen, Plan B is Flintoff, Plan C is rain. Only the third one is likely to play a part in this series...

Ravi Bopara will save us...

JKLever wrote:Ravi Bopara will save us...

By getting injured?

He'll don his superman pants and blow the Aussies away.

Don't be so blinking silly JK.

He may well blow the Aussies, but might not be away, thats for sure!

It really does say something about your side when Shah is your next best batsman.

Still, tis a good opportunity for someone to put their hands up and have a big series

Not really, he's been very good in the ODI arena for the last 18 months for us.

Merlin wrote:4 -3 England.

But realistically .......... W really GAF now that that tiny Urn is in safe keeping!

Quite. We've won the series that really mattered, so I certainly won't weep into my ale if we get whupped. however .....

it would still be nice to see our Antipodean friends leave these shores empty-handed

JKLever wrote:It really does say something about your side when Shah is your next best batsman.

Still, tis a good opportunity for someone to put their hands up and have a big series

Shame it looks like it's not going to be Denly now, would have been a great opportunity for him to show what he's capable of, but a stupid game of football has put paid to that. At best it's a missed opportunity, at worst an ongoing injury problem that could be with him throughout his career as most England players seem to have!

Hopefully Strauss can carry on where he left off in the Tests, and Trott can go some way to establishing himself as an all-formats England regular. They're not going to smash it out of the park very often though, and that's where we're still lacking, 40-1 after 10 overs doesn't get you a competitive score too often.

With Denly out, our top 6 looks like this:

Strauss
Bopara
Shah
Morgan
Colly
Prior
Wright

That is devoid of any real OD quality, and only one person capable of hitting it consistently over the ropes.

Gashlords!!

And Zimmy scoffed at my 7-0....

JKLever wrote:And Zimmy scoffed at my 7-0....

Rightly so, there's going to be at least one washout isn't there? Just hope it's not the one I'm going to...

Do we have the worst ODI side in International Cricket?

holcs wrote:With Denly out, our top 6 looks like this:

Strauss
Bopara
Shah
Morgan
Colly
Prior
Wright

That is devoid of any real OD quality, and only one person capable of hitting it consistently over the ropes.

Gashlords!!

What the f*ck is Eoin Morgan doing there? Are they on drugs?

Dello wrote:

holcs wrote:With Denly out, our top 6 looks like this:

Strauss
Bopara
Shah
Morgan
Colly
Prior
Wright

That is devoid of any real OD quality, and only one person capable of hitting it consistently over the ropes.

Gashlords!!

What the f*ck is Eoin Morgan doing there? Are they on drugs guiness?

Fixed.