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Looks as if Virgil isnt going to make it ... so useless captain Freddy will continue (couldnt Strauss have a go?)

Anderson and Lewis also ruled out

A defeat in this one will most likely rule us out of the chance of a final place as it would mean a bonus point victory and a massive increase in run rate in the final match v NZ would be required ... or even more unlikely .. a win over the Convicts!

Still dont know what Joyce and Nixon are doing out there.

Recall for Ramps anyone?

We really need to win this badly. It does look like Vaughan, Anderson and Lewis are out of the game. Anyone see the game yesterday my god Jacob Oram batted well with 100 off 71 balls.

My team would be
Loye
Strauss
Bell
Collingwood
Bopara
Flintoff
Dalrymple
Read
Plunkett
Tremlett
Panesar.

Two Spinners on a spinners wicket which did turn yesterday.

Can i just ask what it is the englands captain job is?

Sorry to be ignorant but i dont have a clue about cricket.As far as i knew they had selectors to pick players and that fletcher bloke gave them the match tactics

Am i right? I am being serious i dont have a fucking clue

Fundamentally you're correct, but the captain has a role in selection, and when in the field he has too decide on any bowling changes, set the field, and basically be the coach on the pitch, to put it in a nutshell.  COmpared to football the cricket captaincy is a much more complicated job.

Cheers matty it makes a bit more sense now.I thought people were slagging flintoff off for no reason but im obviously wrong

I agree with Nixon, he's a good Cricketer but surely taking someone younger would be better in the long run?

And Joyce has done it at county level hence why he's in the OD side.

As for a recall for Ramprakash..... :soapy tit wank:

well hes a better dancer than any of the others  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

He also had a great season for the Surrey scummers last year too.

Frankly i'm past caring about it now,just want the tour to be over  :cry:

 :groan1:

i read that the selectors offered flintoff the ODI captaincy hoping that he'd decline, but he didn't. if that's true, well, i can't blame him for taking it, but jesus, these selectors really do need to grow some balls.

:-))( im bored of this sport now! its crap

i dont mind if we lose, as long as we hit more 6's.

now that's real bragging rights.

 I suspect the players think the same.....lose the rest of the games and get on the first plane home......unfortunately there's a WC to suffer, before we can get down to the real stuff of the timeless rituals of the English "summer"  

  How my pulse quickens and the sap of youth stirs in the loins, at the thought of Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk's XI  v West Indians at Arundel at the onset of May.

with dalrymple batting below collingwood and bopara you should be an england selector ultra

rymps at 4 if anyone has got any sense. which they obviously haven't

no lewie and anderson are again huge blows

i'd drop strauss and collingwood with no second thoughts if there was anyone decent out there; benning and shah for instance

Good news!

Freddie's shaved.

Tee hee :soapy tit wank:
Thats the only laughing that i'm going to be doing in this thread today :cry:

The Kiwis have finished on 318-7.We've been smashed about on a pitch that is going to spin and our batsman have no confidence,we are fucked.

Frankly I wouldn't back us to hit 300+ with 20 wickets to play with against a village side.

Loye out! 28-1 off 6

56-1 and bell has 1,000 runs in ODI Cricket.

140-4. Vincent brilliantly ran out Joyce who made a very good 66. Collingwood and Flintoff are in now

That was a pretty impressive runout. Sadly, it's the sort of runout our players have lost the ability to do.

looks as if we need to beat both the convicts and New Zealand next time out doesnt it ... sadly pigs dont fly

It was a very good run out. Just saw Strauss's wicket he got megged by Vettori. Straight through his legs and stumped by a quicker ball.

Collingwood is not out. Bollocks.

Get a job !

england are really, really crap

Yes... Yes we are.

Dalrymple gone. 189-7  :oops:

Its all over,we made 260-7 thus losing by 58 runs.
All things considered i'm not too upset by it,hell at least we made it to the 50th over this time!

Yeah - Nixon and Plunkett's knock at the end of the innings made it look better in a way.

You can't polish a turd though.

:-))( is the tour still on? FFS whats the point? they might as well just cancel all our remaining matches and send us home for a bit more rest before the world cup

Bowling and fielding was poor. We gave away 37 extras. That is very poor. Our batting has improved was impressed with joyce, nixon and Plunkett at the end off the innings and Monty bowled brilliantly. Just to add Jacob Oram has to be one of the Best all-rounders in ODI Cricket.

always liked plunkett's batting.

if only he could bowl...

Good?

Thats the truth Sam

Mal Loye annoys me.

One.

Trick.

Pony.

If ever the phrase one trick pony was invented for one man, it's Mr Paul 'reverse sweep for no runs' Nixon.

I like him for the fact he's vocal and encouraging and seems a safe enough 'keeper but that reverse sweep makes me want to cry.

 :soapy tit wank:

Curse you Lebowski,i thought i wouldn't laugh in this thread again :x  :wink:
Plunkett is a bit of a WIDE boy it has to be said.But then the extras count for the team has been a concern for some time now,wish the coaching staff could sort it out,there must be some way to make them bowl straight,SURELY :roll:

oram used to be a good ODI bowler
now oram is a good ODI batsman

he's never put the two together in the same time period so to call him an all-rounder, let alone one of the best, is most generous