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England Win The Commonwealth Bank Series
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(I was hoping on watching the finale of today's game this morning whilst eating my eggs and toast. Bloody rain!)
It's a great result for England and should help remove some of the pressure from Duncan Fletcher. With players finding a bit of form and the probable return of Michael Vaughan, the World Cup now doesn't seem so daunting.
However, remove the last four England performances and does this victory make up for the otherwise terrible performances by this side during the tournament?
(And I won't even mention the Ashes.)
It's a great result for England and should help remove some of the pressure from Duncan Fletcher. With players finding a bit of form and the probable return of Michael Vaughan, the World Cup now doesn't seem so daunting.
However, remove the last four England performances and does this victory make up for the otherwise terrible performances by this side during the tournament?
(And I won't even mention the Ashes.)
As much as I loathe saying it, England did play well the last few games, while Australia seemed to be strangely lacking (unlike earlier in the series where they could do no wrong).
I must admit the stupid rain was my main issue with the last game though. While I sort of get how the whole D/L system works, I can't justify mentally the fact that at one stage the game was reduced by 17 overs, yet the target to get only dropped 34 runs or so. While the reduced time does make it somewhat easier for the second team (so a reduction at the ~5 runs/over rate is maybe a bit excessive) how can they reduce it by only ~2 runs/over???
I must admit the stupid rain was my main issue with the last game though. While I sort of get how the whole D/L system works, I can't justify mentally the fact that at one stage the game was reduced by 17 overs, yet the target to get only dropped 34 runs or so. While the reduced time does make it somewhat easier for the second team (so a reduction at the ~5 runs/over rate is maybe a bit excessive) how can they reduce it by only ~2 runs/over???
As Beefy and Aggers were suggesting though, Australia probably did peak a little too early. Loosing 3 times to England and New Zealand came so very clos just shows that they did get tired by the end of it and there game did start to faulter.
7 weeks in the World Cup might be too much. There are many pointless games with no disrespect to the countries involved but Scotland, Canada etc really are quite poor at cricket and their inclusion is a bit of a joke. I see that they want to get more countries involved but they are just going to get slaughtered and it is going to be a waste of time and energy
7 weeks in the World Cup might be too much. There are many pointless games with no disrespect to the countries involved but Scotland, Canada etc really are quite poor at cricket and their inclusion is a bit of a joke. I see that they want to get more countries involved but they are just going to get slaughtered and it is going to be a waste of time and energy
We have a cricket team? What?!?
I was not informed. Not that I'd care. It's just surprising.
Yep and they are taking part in the World Cup. You see, the residents dont know that they have a cricket team and almost certainly wont follow the world cup so what is the point??
