England will do well to win this game, they are 8-5 after Roy, Bairstow, Root & Buttler all out for 0, Hales did a bit better with 3.
****s sake. One game I put a few quid on them to win. They did well to make a bit of a game of it after that start.
Being 8 for 5 at one point they did well to recover and nearly got the Aussies out. I guess they had to let them win one, as it was Australia day.
Unfortunately the way we play this is going to happen now and again, but we showed fight. It is so obvious that in this format we believe we can win no matter what the position, where as in the tests we never looked like we believed in ourselves.
Absolutely. I find it incredible with the modern strokeplay and high scores that they are so consistent
Absolutely brilliant Cricket from England, were bowled out for 259 which didn't seem nearly enough, Root top scoring with 68. Aussies looked to be cruising to a win, Stoinis going to make 87 then Curran came on to bowl and blow them away with 35-5, and Moheen Ali 55-3 to win by 12 runs in a thrilling finish.
England in the 20/20 looked to be going for a big score at 94-2, but collapsing to 155-9. However got off to a good start bowling, Aussies 11-2 after 2 overs.
just watching the scores tick over - aus need one run, but one of their players is 97no... ...6 settles it all.
All over Aussies win with 1.3 over to spare, 161-5 With Maxwell reach 103 with a six off the winning ball.
England well beat again in the 20/20, batted first and made 137-7 & the Aussies got to 138-3 in 14.3 overs.
England win the 5 match series 3-2 by winning the last game against NZ. Bairstow scored 104 in 58 balls. New Zealand 223 (49.5 overs): Santner 67, Woakes 3-32, Rashid 3-42 England 229-3 (32.4 overs): Bairstow 104, Hales 61
Can't quite believe that England have just been bowled out for 58 in their first innings against NZ. Cook c Latham b Boult 5 Stoneman c Watling bSouthee 11 Root b Boult 0 Malan c Watling b Boult 2 Stokes b Boult 0 Bairstow c & b Southee 0 Moeen b Southee 0 Woakes b Boult 5 C Overton not out 33 Broad c Williamson b Southee 0 Anderson c Nicholls b Boult 1 Extras 0nb 0w 0b 1lb 1 All out 58
58 was a relief after they got to 27/9. i followed progress via the web. england were in danger of 1. beating the lowest ever test score (26 by nz) 2. beating england's lowest ever test score (45) both looked very possible. (edit: corrected lowest ever to 45 from 46)
Need Adkins as manager to put a positive spin on it. - Stokes got some game time - Run-rate nearly 3 an over - We didn' have to face their spinners as we're really crap against spinners
I was toying with the idea of stopping up to watch this. Thank **** I didn't. I don't even know if it was one of those unplayable wickets or England being ****. Can't bring myself to watch it. We're going to kill off red ball cricket if we carry on messing around with CC and focusing on limited over cricket. Surely there's a place for both forms?
someone had suggested that if anderson could hang about, overton might even beat the record %age (67.35%) for a complete innings, which still stands from the very first test innings, when charles bannerman (who opened and faced the first ever ball in test cricket, scored the first run and the first century) scored 165 out of australia's 245. that game and two others on the same tour where retrospectively made tests, so he wouldn't have known at the time, bannerman was born in kent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bannerman
