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 Midlands Eagle  27 Feb 15 2.10pm |
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Quote black eagle. at 24 Feb 2015 12.13pm
Quote lindseynicole at 24 Feb 2015 12.07pm
Gayle close to be out for a duck as well, he didn't do a lot of running
Or else he's clean bowled for three
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| Hoof Hearted 01 Mar 15 10.35am | |
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Another England defeat by 9 wkts against Sri Lanka!
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Percy of Peckham  Eton Mess 01 Mar 15 10.55am |
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Quote Hoof Hearted at 01 Mar 2015 10.35am
Another England defeat by 9 wkts against Sri Lanka!
Well they beat Scotland ...who lost to Afghanistan!
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| RainhamEagle Bermondsey 01 Mar 15 11.06am |
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We'll sneak through in 4th. Hope to god we avoid SA in the QF as they'll break all sorts of records against our impotent attack, I'm not even joking when I say I can see them hitting us to nearer the 500 mark. We could get India though, who we've done a number on a few times recently. I've completely done a U-turn on Ballance, get him out of the side and get Hales in, something needs to be done to improve our top order. Keep Taylor down the order. Despite the loss, this morning Taylor, Root and Buttler proved what a difference having capable batsman down the order can do in the last 10/15 overs. Edited by RainhamEagle (01 Mar 2015 11.08am)
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| aylott4england Warrington 01 Mar 15 11.29am |
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Get rid of Ballance and Broad. Major competitions should not be used to get players match fit. Replace with Hales and Bopara. Tempted to replace Anderson as well. A four strong pace attack only works if you have pace which we don't
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| Stirlingsays 01 Mar 15 12.28pm |
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People think it's a case of jiggling the pack.....though I agree that Hales should have been in the side. But here's the truth. We just aren't good enough. We have no real fast bowlers.....We have no real spinners. Our batsman are about average when it comes to one day cricket. The reason we are so poor are legacy decisions taken (no free to air) which have reduced the audience and hence participation for cricket massively. We certainly have the people at the top of cricket being paid well now but we now have a situation where most school children don't know the names of players in the test side or indeed care about cricket. That is....wholly the fault of the ECB.
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| Tom-the-eagle Croydon 01 Mar 15 12.31pm |
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Also we should be given an automatic 100 runs every game considering we invented the sport.
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| RainhamEagle Bermondsey 01 Mar 15 1.03pm |
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Quote Stirlingsays at 01 Mar 2015 12.28pm
People think it's a case of jiggling the pack.....though I agree that Hales should have been in the side. But here's the truth. We just aren't good enough. We have no real fast bowlers.....We have no real spinners. Our batsman are about average when it comes to one day cricket. The reason we are so poor are legacy decisions taken (no free to air) which have reduced the audience and hence participation for cricket massively. We certainly have the people at the top of cricket being paid well now but we now have a situation where most school children don't know the names of players in the test side or indeed care about cricket. That is....wholly the fault of the ECB. I don't think anybody can claim there isn't deeper problems than the playing side. However, bringing in players like Hales, Roy and Vince would at least see us compete a bit better than we are on the total scores. Our bowling cannot be helped, we have nothing coming through and what we have now is average at best, but we can help ourselves in the other factors, instead of persisting with players like Bell.
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| Percy of Peckham Eton Mess 01 Mar 15 1.04pm |
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Quote Tom-the-eagle at 01 Mar 2015 12.31pm
Also we should be given an automatic 100 runs every game considering we invented the sport. Good idea ...but we still wouldn't have beaten Sri Lanka!!!!
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collier row eagle  romford essex via another galaxy 01 Mar 15 1.10pm |
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Quote Tom-the-eagle at 01 Mar 2015 12.31pm
Also we should be given an automatic 100 runs every game considering we invented the sport.
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| Stirlingsays 01 Mar 15 6.41pm |
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Quote RainhamEagle at 01 Mar 2015 1.03pm
I don't think anybody can claim there isn't deeper problems than the playing side. However, bringing in players like Hales, Roy and Vince would at least see us compete a bit better than we are on the total scores. Our bowling cannot be helped, we have nothing coming through and what we have now is average at best, but we can help ourselves in the other factors, instead of persisting with players like Bell.
However, other than probably having a higher run rate I'm not convinced that either Roy or Vince would do better than Bell in terms of average. Still, I woulnd't object t them being given a chance.
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| morganistic 02 Mar 15 2.18pm |
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Still confident of England reaching the quarters stuk? If they don't, is this an all-time low? What the f*ck is going on? And have England really got another f*cking WEEK before their next game? Get on with it fuf*cksake!
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