How can you get the right team mentality when one of the senior coaches is Mark Ramprakash?
he gave such a dreadful interview the other day ...must admit i could have done better myself but on the upside you watch our squad nail it in the dance off
Our batsman should be experts at dancing down the pitch to the spinners...
Dare I say that this is going to be set up for England to chase the total down for four down with Cook 70 not out and thus guaranteeing his place for the next 10 years in the ODI team.
Wakes gets his third wicket from a bouncer poorly played by Perera though Ali at cow corner to the left hander didn't make the catch look as easy as it should have been in taking it at the second attempt.
Ali is given not out and they run a single. Umpire signals a leg bye so SL appeal. Review confirms not out because there is an inside edge. But the leg bye stands and Ali's score stays the same.
How does that work? And how furious would you be if you were out for 99?
Ali hits the ball to wide mid off who has to dive for the ball. Hales doesn't hear the call and turns his back on Ali who actually manages to run one and a half runs in the time it takes for the ball to reach Sangakara.
Ali hits the ball to wide mid off who has to dive for the ball. Hales doesn't hear the call and turns his back on Ali who actually manages to run one and a half runs in the time it takes for the ball to reach Sangakara.
103-2 off 15 overs. Root joins Hales.
What an earth was Hales doing there. There was an easy single there & he left Moeen high and dry. He better go on to win England the match now!
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30-2 off 5 overs in what is now a 35 over match and SL's score to be adjusted for D/L.
Perhaps it was correct to pick him.
I think I would prefer watching him walk back to the dressing room at the moment though!!
He's putting Jordan under pressure here.
175-5 off 28.4.
202-7 off 31.4
Revised target is 236 under D/L.
Ali batting superbly in scoring 42 off 22 including four 6's. Cook has 33 off 38.
Score now 84-1 off 11.4 with Ali 49 (28).
I suspect that Cook's back problem will now give the selectors an opportunity to "rest" him for the next ODI.
Hales will "bed in" whilst Ali carries on depositing the ball over the boundary.
SL just wasted their review with a silly visit upstairs.
Ali is given not out and they run a single. Umpire signals a leg bye so SL appeal. Review confirms not out because there is an inside edge. But the leg bye stands and Ali's score stays the same.
How does that work? And how furious would you be if you were out for 99?
Ali hits the ball to wide mid off who has to dive for the ball. Hales doesn't hear the call and turns his back on Ali who actually manages to run one and a half runs in the time it takes for the ball to reach Sangakara.
103-2 off 15 overs. Root joins Hales.
So the match Ref, David Boon, might suspend him for a game anyway.
What an earth was Hales doing there. There was an easy single there & he left Moeen high and dry. He better go on to win England the match now!
99 needed off 82.
166-5 with 70 needed off 48 balls.
Root 26(34) and Buttler 8(10) are in.
Gone are Hales (27), Bopara (6) and Morgan (1).