Champions Trophy
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In the washup you can see some poor captaincy. But I also never felt confident like I have in the past with the side selected.
Ronchi is a "hold ya breath and hope and anything over 15 is a bonus" opener.
Roscoe well and truly stifling things when upping the pace was needed.
A middle order that is laughable really.
A really weak 5th bowling option that has huge pressure on them if the 3rd and 4th are taking some stick.
Anyway, time to find a real opener and drop Ronchi down to 7 if he is still going to be in the side. Neesham's bowling should be shelved.
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@ACT-Crusader In all honesty, the Champions Trophy is nothing more than a warm-up tournament for the World Cup, similar to soccer's Confed Cup.
Unless Hesson seriously thinks that the likes of Ronchi, Broom etc are his guys for the next WC, this would have been a good place to see how guys like George Worker, Tom Latham, Glenn Phillips, even Scott Kuggeleijn, handle the tournament setting.
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England raging hot favourites to take it out.
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Yeah - all we needed to do to make the semifinals was to beat Bangladesh....FFS!!!
I think there definitely needs to be a bit of a clean out in the ODI team with a view to the CWC now. Problem is - I'm short on ideas of good options to bring in.
The next cabs on the rank have been pretty underwhelming when I've seen them.
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That's the conundrum
For every opinion calling for someone to be replaced, nobody offers the solutions
There aren't too many aside from shuffling deck chairsMight have to go through the repeated pain of 18 months of blooding young ones again (trying to think of them..ummmm....)
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@No-Quarter I used to think of Santner as an all rounder, back in the day he could be relied upon a for a good 30 runs each time. But then his batting went to shit. So I think he's just a bowler nowadays, maybe a bit high due to past feats. And we can't have Neesham and Anderson, they are too alike and unfortunately not good enough at either discipline (especially Anderson, who is definitely living on past glories.) Ronchi shouldn't be anywhere near the openers, and it's a sad state of affairs when a temporary measure and old timer like Broom still continues to be needed as he his.
It makes me worry about cricket at a domestic level, that we don't have young guys full of piss and vinegar ready to step up and unleash. Is it a coaching thing? Is it lack of top quality opposition? I don't want to go straight to lower player numbers, because in the past we have held our own. But this Champions Trophy has been a disappointment of collapses. -
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@Bovidae said in Champions Trophy:
Pakistan beats England by 8 wickets in the SF.
I can see India winning this.
Bloody Pakistan, could there be a more inconsistent team in any sport?
Comon Bangladesh!!!!
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Pakistan just about messed up their final qualifying game vs Sri Lanka. But, they've dished out a drubbing to England.
NZ, Oz and England all showing the perils of having your lower middle order fall over!
India will fancy their chances - they should be too good for the Bangles!
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Bangles got slaughtered which was not unexpected. Pakistan massively unlikely to put together two performances in a row, I can see the final being one-sided.
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@Donsteppa said in Champions Trophy:
I had a feeling the hype around the English team was building too far... from a couple of Cricinfo headlines over the weekend it sounded like they had the comp in the bag.
Now you know what being an England cricket fan entails. Why we can't wait until we've actually won something before we start chest beating is beyond me. I mean, after all these years. Sheesh!