| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! 11:25 - Mar 1 with 1007 views | Chrisd |
England’s white ball cricket has been going down the drain at a rapid rate over recent years. We lack variety in our bowling attack - it’s all a bit the same - and the batting is simply woeful. What is the point of Phil Salt? Hits a 4 or 6, then gets himself out with a careless shot, generally out for single figures most innings. I can never understand this ideology of keep throwing your bat at it when 5,6 or 7 wickets down with over 20+ overs left. Why not hang in there and build a total?
I know McCullum has only recently been appointed as our limited overs coach, but for me he’s taken English cricket backwards. Other international sides have overtaken us and play a much better brand of cricket, than the crash, bang, wallop of Bazball. It really is crap to watch when we are on the wrong end of it, which appears most of the time. |  |
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| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! on 11:58 - Mar 1 with 951 views | Guthrum |
Doing a little better than I thought after the first two or three overs. Might have been all out for 120 in 25. |  |
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| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! on 12:32 - Mar 1 with 930 views | bournemouthblue |
We are very much in a banter era of one day cricket right now
It's a real mess, there's a lot of mistakes being made
Salt makes a compelling case for Bairstow to have been here really
Why is Curran not involved
Liam Dawson is another who seems to be being overlooked
Why is Smith at 3, why isn't Buttler batting higher, what has Overton done to keep getting picked?
It's all pretty confused |  |
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| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! on 13:01 - Mar 1 with 889 views | Steve_M |
Blame the ECB for having a WC winning team and then abandoning the format domestically. |  |
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| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! on 13:34 - Mar 1 with 849 views | Plums |
| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! on 13:01 - Mar 1 by Steve_M |
Blame the ECB for having a WC winning team and then abandoning the format domestically. |
It's very unlike the ECB to be screwing their own sport up. See also selling out test cricket and destroying the Blast in favour of their mickey mouse cup. |  |
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| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! on 14:27 - Mar 1 with 818 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Looking at the rest of the team there isn't anyone who strikes me as a potential replacement for Butler as captain either. Brook possibly. |  |
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| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! on 15:19 - Mar 1 with 795 views | Radlett_blue |
McCullum only recently inherited a ODI (& 20/20) team that has been in steep decline since the World Cup win. In the short term, his ideas haven't worked e.g. going with 3 pace bowlers on the turgid Pakistan pitches. These bowlers also seem to have been obsessed with bowling slower ball variations, rather than pinging it in at pace.
The bigger issue is that some of the batter e.g. Salt, Livingstone seem to treat 50 over cricket as if it was 20/20, which it isn't. Putting Smith at #3 was a bizarre choice.
Not playing Rehan Ahmed was also odd, given the success of wrist spinners in this tournament. Not picking him for the dead rubber today was plain bonkers.
White ball captaincy is almost a specialist job, very different from Test cricket. Buttler had been an ineffective captain & his batting form also dropped so I think he jumped before he was pushed. I doubt Brook is the answer. |  |
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| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! on 16:04 - Mar 1 with 778 views | bournemouthblue |
| Cricket - England going out with a whimper! on 15:19 - Mar 1 by Radlett_blue |
McCullum only recently inherited a ODI (& 20/20) team that has been in steep decline since the World Cup win. In the short term, his ideas haven't worked e.g. going with 3 pace bowlers on the turgid Pakistan pitches. These bowlers also seem to have been obsessed with bowling slower ball variations, rather than pinging it in at pace.
The bigger issue is that some of the batter e.g. Salt, Livingstone seem to treat 50 over cricket as if it was 20/20, which it isn't. Putting Smith at #3 was a bizarre choice.
Not playing Rehan Ahmed was also odd, given the success of wrist spinners in this tournament. Not picking him for the dead rubber today was plain bonkers.
White ball captaincy is almost a specialist job, very different from Test cricket. Buttler had been an ineffective captain & his batting form also dropped so I think he jumped before he was pushed. I doubt Brook is the answer. |
Duckett is potentially another I guess, did Crawley captain the ODI second team essentially against Ireland from memory?
The other option is going for an experienced domestic captain like Vince or Gregory
I'm not sure I'd go that way but there's an argument for it | |
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