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Jai Richardson was the best of the bowlers.
I know Starc got some wickets late but he bowls far to short.
Why the frig Lyon is not in the side astounds me.
He is the best spinner in the country.
White should play for Japan what an overrated b..........
Head should lose his.
Must pick form players.

Demons Forever wrote: Jai Richardson was the best of the bowlers.
I know Starc got some wickets late but he bowls far to short.
Why the frig Lyon is not in the side astounds me.
He is the best spinner in the country.
White should play for Japan what an overrated b..........
Head should lose his.
Must pick form players.

Another lost at the selection table. Smith is NOT aggressive enough as a batsman nor powerful enough. His captaincy in bowlers lacked thought. Too many Aussies think they are safe in the team. Too many batsmen fail to improve the run rate. The top six batsmen all failed to score quickly although Finch got a century.. English spin (inc ROOT) slow us down.
Lets dump Smith, Head & White (who should have batted 3 - 4) & bring in anyone including MAXWELL. The tried players look scared of the poms.

they have got Root out for three innings -- includding when he was crook in the Sydney Test Match.

One change I would make tommorrow is to swap Head and Smith in the batting order as Head does seem to like starting his innings with the pace and he has more chance of doing that at number 3. Smith can then play the Joe Root type role at number 4. I would also bat Stoinis at 5 ahead of Mitch Marsh. Looks like they are going to play the test quicks so Richardson and Tye will drop out. Not sure if thats a great move. One certainty is that Zampa will be back.

ArkRoyal wrote: Freeze: good analysis, I was going to ask you about Head. Why was Finch bowlling ahead of Marsh?

I find that very surprising too, also Travis Head. Finch actually bowled 11 dot balls out of 18 deliveries, Head bowled 14 out of 42.
For all the talk about a genuine bowling all rounder, (which Mitch Marsh is) then him being the 7th bowler used, behind Finch, Head and Stonis and only for 1 over appears to be somewhat of a contradiction in the bowling all rounder selection or just poor utilisation by the captain.

Why drop Richardson?
Best of the bowlers in the last game.
Why no second spinner?

If the WC was played tomorrow Eng would win in a canter....looks like 300 to many for this current Aust batting line up...Woakes and Buttler doing what Aust would like Stoinis and Marsh to do I guess..Starc and Cummins looked clueless in the end....as did Smith.....gonna be a big ask getting this....think 30 more than the Aust would of liked....interesting Aust batsmen in the first 2 ODI fell 30 odd short each time and now the Eng batsmen finish 30 odd more than what Aust would of like.....sums up where the two sides are at present....at least Aust have time and the benchmark what to replicate I guess...see if Australia have the smarts to do so

Well said, Freezin, now the job is in front of the Aussies to avoid a clean sweep, as mikeh astutely said was on the cards after Game 1.
Geez, what we'd give to have a hitter like Jos Buttler in our line-up, though on their day A Finch, D Warner, M Marsh and M Stoinis are capable of the same type of carnage.
Given the next game is in Adelaide, I'd like to see Alex Carey come in for Tim Paine, while I reckon Pat Cummins should be rested and Jhye Richardson come back in.

It was a good effort by England, winning after Plunckett went down injurred. The Australians need to work out how to play against Morgan's field, in particular, those three fieldsmen behind point. Those fieldsmen have barely stopped a ball between them; and yet, England have still won three games, effectively, with only six fieldsmen.

ArkRoyal wrote: It was a good effort by England, winning after Plunckett went down injurred. The Australians need to work out how to play against Morgan's field, in particular, those three fieldsmen behind point. Those fieldsmen have barely stopped a ball between them; and yet, England have still won three games, effectively, with only six fieldsmen.

The game was a good match Ark.Momentum shifts to both sides.Ali not batting or bowling well.Recon he will be lucky to play again this summer.