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We are on a roll
60k packed crowd
2-3 coming up
60k packed crowd
2-3 coming up
We are on a roll
60k packed crowd
2-3 coming up
What's 2-3? A moral victory???We are on a roll
60k packed crowd
2-3 coming up
3 - 2 will show a few things.
1. Series need to have a point. Once England went up 3 zip what did they have to play for besides the cliche 'every game is important when you're playing for your country'. Hopefully the ICC has got its act together and now every game played counts towards qualifying for the world cup.
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What's 2-3? A moral victory???
Distinctly un-Australian!!!
Poms yapping they were going for a clean sweep, and get us on Australia Day, at 5/8 that was hilarious.
2-3 certainly looks better than 0-5
Woakes would be a handy cricketer if he could bowl.2-3 does look better, but when the 7th Aussie wicket fell, I don't think too many Aussies were laughing at how England were 5/8.
Seriously, how good is Woakes with the bat? He'd be who I want at 8 in a current odi World XI with Shakib up higher. May fit Stokes in, may not.
Woakes would be a handy cricketer if he could bowl.
Yeah not Woakes.He goes for 5.57 ER bowling a lot of death overs at 31.87 (SR 34.1). While that may not look as fancy as Pat Cummins at 5.38 at 28 (SR 31.6), Pat Cummins averages 12 with the bat striking at 72.
I know who I'd rather have in my ODI XI.
Yeah not Woakes.
Good for you.No, I'd definitely take Woakes.
Good for you.
He’s a pie thrower, I wouldn’t have Cummins in either.
What's 2-3? A moral victory???
Distinctly un-Australian!!!
Ummmmm how about a novel idea and picking the best 4 bowlers????We seem to have differing views of the number 8's role.
https://www.icc-cricket.com/rankings/mens/player-rankings/odi/bowling
Of those odi bowlers ranked ahead of Woakes in 14th place on the icc form guide, none of them bat as well as him. And I would think Nabi and Shakib both is a lil unnecessary.
I think runs matters at number 8, especially in ODI. You seem to care less for it. That's fine, its your philosophy. But I do remember when Faulkner was winning a stack of games (and pulling the games back into being contests) for Australia with the bat. Woake's role is hardly novel, just he's executing the best doing it at present.