I had this big post about England looking useless with the white ball again.
It delved deep into their batting, especially their mindsets, and their bowlers looking like match winners if the wicket was in their favour, but very hittable if not.
It wasn’t the worst thing I have ever written.
I’m not going to put it up though.
Cause if the England side are going to put Andrew Strauss into the side, as a number 6 no less, why would i look at the team seriously?
England’s one day side is a messy joke with no punch line that confuses you for days, and when you understand it, you wonder why anyone bothered to tell it in the first place.
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weren’t they, not too long ago, one win away from being no. 1/2 side in the icc white ball rankings?
Yes, but only after they beat SA in the hangover series, before they lost to New Zealand.
That’s the best description of our one-day side I’ve seen in ages.
so jrod.. dare i ask.. would u say this current aus-sa series is hangover part 2?
We have been this bad at one day cricket for years (since we lost the ’92 WC I would guess). Since inventing Twenty20, it has taken us a mere 4-5 years to officially suck at that too, and clearly deliberately so.
We will all assure you that this is because Test cricket is the real deal, so naturally we make up for it by being really good at that, and ODIs are something we do just to pay the bills. After all, if we have to play in our pyjamas, why shouldn’t we play as if in a coma?
When we lose, we will patiently explain that this is merely a ploy to build a false sense of security in our opponents, that we are trying out new players just in case and so on and so on.
Yet the world refuses to listen to us…
‘Strauss picked to be captain only’ just about sums it up. Like we don’t have enough useless players without picking one specifically to be crap.