The Hales drop was a shocker, the Roy one I must admit looked ambiguous on the replay, it was really close to the grass. He misjudged the catch anyway.
Great innings by Maxwell, but England needed another spinner. Don't know why Malan wasn't tried for at least an over
The chat with Punter during play was interesting, but daft to continue with it and ignore the key drop by Hales, a strange choice by the Aussie producers
Today showing that you need two spinners in any T20 side
Stokes coming back (one day) will allow us to have two spinners and four seamers too.
Billings goes for him, Jordan goes for the spinner, still not convinced by "famine or feast" Roy as he barely averages 20 in international T20s (and just 27 in other T20s with a very poor BB season) so I would bring Root in and push Malan up to open (giving us a left/right combo too). Woakes has to come in and Morgan stays for now but, if he becomes the Mike Brearley of white ball cricket, we drop him too.
So we would have something like this:
Hales Malan Root Morgan Stokes Buttler Ali Woakes Plunkett/Willey/Curran Rashid Wood
I still think Curran (?) should have bowled a massive wide or a bouncer for the final ball. They only needed 1 to win & therefore would have left the cheating bastard high & dry on 97. The Chappell's didn't have any problems bowling it underarm when NZ needed a six many moons ago.
Nice to see the lads have been practicing running between the wickets. Nearly a couple of cases of Yes, No, Yes, No, Shit, Sorry between Butler and Vince
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Australia 98 for 4.
Probably still going to lose though
Come on England
F#$$ing joke.
Even Aussie comentater saying it's out
The other 6 batsmen 51 off 53
And we "dropped" Maxwell at least twice.
Great innings by Maxwell, but England needed another spinner. Don't know why Malan wasn't tried for at least an over
You do get a lot of big hitting and it can be exciting but for me it is my least favourite format of the game
Billings goes for him, Jordan goes for the spinner, still not convinced by "famine or feast" Roy as he barely averages 20 in international T20s (and just 27 in other T20s with a very poor BB season) so I would bring Root in and push Malan up to open (giving us a left/right combo too). Woakes has to come in and Morgan stays for now but, if he becomes the Mike Brearley of white ball cricket, we drop him too.
So we would have something like this:
Hales
Malan
Root
Morgan
Stokes
Buttler
Ali
Woakes
Plunkett/Willey/Curran
Rashid
Wood