Category: Limited Over
The format nowadays caught between two stools. A quick thrash with boring bits.
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September 10, 2009
England v Australia 3rd ODI
For the 3rd consecutive match, Andrew Strauss tells us, England’s batsmen have underperformed. Tell us something we don’t know. Actually, this is the 4th ODI in a row if you count the game against Ireland when England mustered just 203/9 and narrowly won a rain-affected match.
September 8, 2009
Fifty over cricket: just so vanilla
Fifty over cricket is the runt of the cricketing litter. We know what happens to the runt. To start with, it gets the leftovers, but when the rest of the litter’s appetite increases the leftovers suddenly disappear. It hangs on for a while, then it dies.
It’s not the Ashes any more
Watching England and Australia muddle their way through seven ODIs after the Ashes has finished is like going to your favourite restaurant and having the main course before the starter. Nobody wants a bowl of soup when they’ve just finished a plate of steak and chips.
September 6, 2009
England v Australia, 2nd ODI
England’s Test batsmen are often accused of making starts but failing to convert them into centuries. Generally, blame is placed upon the proliferation of limited overs cricket. Today, England again lost an ODI against Australia, and again a number of their batsmen established themselves, only to lose their wickets.
September 3, 2009
Cricketers, not footballers
With Joe Denly being the latest England cricketer injured during a football warmup, you wonder just what is going on. England’s disastrous first morning in the Ashes Test at Headingley was prompted by an injury to Matt Prior, yet they do not seem to have learnt their lesson.
August 28, 2009
England beat Ireland (just)
England gave Ireland the narrow beating of their lives yesterday, winning by 3 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis method. It took a debutant and a part-time spinner to make the game safe, but we should expect nothing less in an England 50-over match.
August 27, 2009
County cricket can’t stomach 50 overs
Forty-over cricket is considered so important by the ECB that they have decided to go one step further than simply scrapping their 50-over competition to protect it. Now, the ECB is asking the ICC to change the international 50-over format on their behalf.
June 1, 2009
Rise of Twenty20 will mean the end for 50 over cricket
Increasingly, we hear about the bleak future of test cricket, with Chris Gayle’s recent comments being the most outspoken by a player so far. However, the amount of speculation tells us that people care enough about test cricket to do something to preserve it’s place in the game. We do not hear the same concerns over the future of 50-over cricket.
May 26, 2009
England v West Indies one day international series
Knowing as we did that West Indies’ players weren’t too keen on being here, it is no surprise that England took the ODI series 2-0. And we didn’t learn much about the players that we didn’t already know.
May 23, 2009
Sussex reach semi final
Many had written off Sussex’ season before it had even begun. Today they reached the semi-final of the Friends Provident Trophy, beating Somerset by six wickets.
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