They would have at The Oval but for the Duckworth Lewis intervention, and to think Moore's insisted on having Cook in the team until a few weeks before the World Cup. All credit to the new management who resisted the KP bandwagon and have gone for younger guns. Saturday at Durham should be a cracker, weather permitting
Thought some of you chaps & chapettes may request this so I thought I'd be proactive and post it ............. C'mon Aussie C'mon, C'mon - The Original Version Lillee's pounding down like a machine Pascoe's making divots in the green Marshy's taking wickets Hookesy's clearing pickets And the Chappell's eyes have got that killer gleam Mr Walker's playing havoc with the bat Redpath it's good to see ya back Lairdy's making runs Dougy's chewing gum And Gilmour's wielding willow like an axe C'mon Aussie c'mon c'mon etc ......... ( repeat after every schooner of beer. )
Maybe the Bay 13 inhabitants were passing out doing the famous Merv Hughes stretching exercises! We Aussies are better than two schooners. I know when I was in my earlier twenties ( working for the Navy - Defence force as a Artisan,) I could down 5 schooners within the half an hour lunch period on a hot summers day ............ and I'm a bourban & coke drinker! I still have the occasional beer on a hot summers day but nowadays, I'm only good for one middy and then it's the resumption of normal Friday night activities,( B & C.) Make no mistake, I was no match for some of the other genuine beer drinkers.
I've lost track of the Aussie beer size vocab - pot, middy and schooner (?). I just ask for a pint. Sadly haven't been over since 2012 and no likelihood of a trip soon. Great sporting nation, for playing and watching. Though I did enjoy the Bay 13 silence during the Boxing Day Ashes Test in 1986. Of course the greatest Aussie drinker of all was David Boon, who did a (validated by team mates, though never commented on by him) incredible 52 cans of beer on the flight to London for the 1989 series. What a great keeper Jack Richards was.
.....and to think that nowadays he is a test match referee......must have mellowed in older age......
England have announced a 14 man Pre-Ashes training camp squad:Cook,Ali,Anderson,Balance,Bell,Broad,Buttler,Finn,Footitt,Lyth,Plunkett,Root,Stokes and Wood.Footitt is a very fast left arm bowler,very raw but he will get important experience of being around the squad.I thought Morgan would be included,and I'm very disappointed that Rashid hasn't been called up,he could've proved decisive on a 4th or 5th day turning pitch!
Rashid blows hot and cold and against the Aussies any weakness will be severely punished. We just don't have a world class spinner now Swann has gone and that might just cost us...
Go Johnnie go!!!! Bairstow plays a wonderful innings of 83 not out to seal the series win for England. Why is it that the Duckworth/Lewis formula always comes out in favour of the bowling side? The asking rate at the start was under 6 an over, but after the rain they were set a much harder task.
Don't watch too much cricket these days and just caught this when England were about 30 for 3. What a cracking comeback.
All to do with how many wickets the side batting second have at the time play is stopped. England had 10 so that made the target higher than it would have been if they'd had less wickets, it's a sort of slide rule calculation that sometimes seems very unfair especially now teams score 300+ with ease, the D/L method was based on an average of 250 or so. Despite that a great performance from Bairstow...
Yes, but if there had been no rain they would have required less than 6 per over. After the rain it was a higher target. There must be a fairer way?
That's the point, England still had all ten wickets but only 26 instead of 50 overs, they could almost treat it as a T20 innings, so the slide rule formula increases the runs per over to take the extra wickets into consideration. It's not perfect but it balances things towards the side batting first because with less overs and a lower target the side batting second will have a thrash at it. Complicated but better than having pro-rata which would always favour the side batting second...
