1st ODI: Australia v England at MCG Jan 14 2018

[Hutty1986]

Root played it brilliantly and made sure he was there all the way.......

Shut up, Meg.

 

[Tommy Smith]

Says alot about our bowling when we can't defend 300.

What an outstanding innings by Roy.

Hats off.

300 is the new 270 in contemporary ODIplod cricket.

 

[Rabbits20]

Shut up, Meg.

Lol ho hum........

 

[mave]

300 is the new 270 in contemporary ODIplod cricket.

Good to see you back.

 

[This Year?]

300 is the new 270 in contemporary ODIplod cricket.

Well its good to see more runs being scored now in the middle overs now. Also with T20 teams know they can chase 10 and over.

 

[axl rose]

Most of the Australian public don't care so much for this ODI series now that the Ashes are finished.

ODIs have lost their prestige in Australia over the past decade or so since the tri-series format was abandoned. The MCG crowd says it all.

Growing up with the tri-series format, MCG matches got good crowds, and ODIs involving Australia at the other venues were very difficult to get tickets to as they sold out quickly.

Use to book a couple of months in advance to get tickets at the Gabba. Already have freebies for Fridays game. Crowd of 10-15 thousand likely.

 

[blaza88z]

Use to book a couple of months in advance to get tickets at the Gabba. Already have freebies for Fridays game. Crowd of 10-15 thousand likely.

All the cheap seats are sold out

 

[veggiepatch1959]

Get rid of Tampon Zampa.

He shouldn't have left One Direction in the first place.

 

[TheParraboy]

Our problem we should have scored more from Ali, another 10-15 at least. Our opening bowlers should have been tighter, they got away to a lightening start. Maybe bowl Zampa/Head for an over or two when it was carnige.

Am expecting us to come back hard next game

 

[hineyrulz]

btw for anyone interested the green day musical at the opera house was brilliant, I’m in love with phoebe panareto gorgeous gal

I’m going to it again st QPAC in april. It was a brilliant show last time.

 

[hineyrulz]

This is right upthere with the 80 odd we got rolled for v sri lanka a few years back. Getting absolutely demolished defending a score that NO SIDE had ever chased at the MCG. Roy's arsey knock has come off big time but our so-called front-liner quicks have been hammered. A complete annihilation.

304 was never enough on that deck.

That fat f**k getting out when set to the Beard cost us 350.

The bowling wasn’t great but once again our batting wasn’t good enough.

 

[hineyrulz]

Plus it's that some people are struggling money wise after Christmas....

Gotta pay back your advanced Dole money before Christmas hey Alien????

 

[hineyrulz]

Good to see you back.

Tommy was finally allowed out of HT’s Rape dungeon.

 

[Twizzle]

I dont think the MCG pitch rating has changed from being poor.

Nothing in it for the bowlers.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

England were better than us.

 

[Sphagnum]

Hopefully that was finch's goodbye hundred. Just plays for his average that germ.

Smudger should open in one dayers

 

[Timbo]

Get rid of Tampon Zampa.

He shouldn't have left One Direction in the first place.

There was a good bit of chat on ABCs coverage about why it should be Lyon in both formats.

As an aside, the hate for Finch on here is getting silly.

 

[veggiepatch1959]

There was a good bit of chat on ABCs coverage about why it should be Lyon in both formats.

As an aside, the hate for Finch on here is getting silly.

Agreed.

The guy scores a ton but is still considered a fat nuffie. Where's the hatred for Warner and Head?

 

[hineyrulz]

Agreed.

The guy scores a ton but is still considered a fat nuffie. Where's the hatred for Warner and Head?

Because Finch got out to a shit shot just when we needed to kick on. Even worse to that pie thrower, him only going on 39 cost us the game.

As opposed to Warner who got a good one early.

 

[JJ]

Finch wasn't the problem, and Warner is a fine ODI opener (even though I don't like him) - you have Head, Marsh, Stoinis and Paine at 4-5-6-7... is that really what you want there?

I know you have better players than that, but the tail is too long, and there's too much pressure on the top 3 - who will win you some games along with the quality quicks

And the bowling plans... OMG, England are going to keep coming at you, and if they keep bowling like that they'll get smashed - Cummins is terrific, but the whole approach seems geniused