Well despite Head going 1st ball
The Bison with 50 off 30 balls made sure of it
In the end we cruised to a 7 wicket win with 26 + overs to spare
Last 14 times we've played Poms in ODI cricket
Its Australia 11 Poms 3
Weve got a few young ones doing well
Future is bright I hope
Sam Konstas 173
That's his 3rd ton in the last few weeks
For me he replaces Marnus in the test team
Team
Head , Konstas , Renshaw , Smith ,Green , Inglis , Carey , Cummins, Starc
Lyon , Boland Hazelwood
That's my 12
Mailing Beardman
On debut
7.4 overs 1 maiden 6 for 24
The best ever performance on debut
Spenser Johnson a 3 for !
Australian cricket is healthy ( at least in the bowling )
England all out 131 in 33.4 overs
Whether our batting is also healthy is yet to be seen
Yes 10 overs 2 maidens 3 for 27 not bad
Seems he would not be out of place in our ODI side
Poms bowled out 251 in 48 overs
Hope they get similar poor score on Friday
Kwajaja
Your retired you need to make money
If you make it a controversial explosive book
Then its a best seller
Money talks
8 years ago !!
My biggest concern is our pathetic batting performance
I felt too disgusted to immediately comment
However so much went wrong
The toss decision to protect a fragile batting line up ranks as one of the worst ever
Fact is Cummins and Hazelwood were very innocuous
Lyon was ok but bowls 30 + overs with almost every ball identical
The SA spinner...
As usual last 2 years Lyon no wickets in morning session .He just doesn't spin us to wins lately .
Only morning wicket to Cummins his first in over 360 balls
Pre lunch 1-62 off 28 overs
Since lunch 0-30 off 6 overs
SA 5 -232 ( 132 ahead )
Still good batting wicket
Pity at toss we opted to...
Session 1 day 3
Aust 4-81 now 8-411
A little dissapointing
Great ton by Inglis
Cummins a 7 ball duck looked clueless couldn't lay bat on ball
Not a great test for him so far
0 wickets 0 runs
Test could still go either way but any lead handy but batting 4th will be difficult
Lyon will...
Day 2 review
4-330 great effort
Head a quick fire 41 and a chop on .As expected
Marnus a 5 ball duck .Looks nervous and mind scrambled .As expected
Renshaw a composed 74 .As expected
Green .A great 65 .A bonus better than I expected .given so little cricket
Inglis a great 85 not out...
While watching Aust bat the first session I felt disaster was just around the corner
Reminds me of the guy who fell off a 50 story building and as he passed each floor he could be heard saying " so far so good " LOL
What a day
Terrible toss decision
0-158 but STARC is a champion 6-72" last 4 wickets in 8 balls
All out 329
I thought they would get 500
Problem is our batting !
Hope I'm wrong !