rentaghost
Striker
Absolutely brilliant captaincy from Morgan throughout
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Wish he was 10 years younger
Perfectly timed collapse, he'd barely finished saying how good Australia have been when Labuschane was outHappy Birthday Warney
The Voice Of Reason
Striker
Can’t wait for Wednesday
chopsfc007
Striker
Honestly wouldn't surprise me to see a hundred from root or Bairstow
Mr Redknapp
Striker
Eoin Morgan is the Mike Brearley of ODI's.
Old Timer
Winger
No he is not, he contributes a lot to the team as a player as well, as much as I agree about Brearly as a captain, he was never a key player for the team in the way Morgan is with the bat.
The bloke is the cricketing version of Chemical/Comical Ali - there is no situation where he doesn't think Australia will winPerfectly timed collapse, he'd barely finished saying how good Australia have been when Labuschane was out
Our batters need to step up - the top 5 aren't contributing as a unit. Not like they did last year anyway. Bairstow is the only one to have made any sort of score in the first 2 ODIs
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SuperMarcoRowell
Central Defender
I hope the young uns in the team learn from Morgan for the future, too many times we’ve had a good bunch of players and not created a legacy, in contrast to the Aussies.
TravellingMackem
Winger
Slow low pitches have always been this units weakness and they don’t seem to have the brains to work out how to get a score on them. Something we really need to work on so I applaud Morgan for asking for such pitches for us to practice on - easy for us to just ignore the problem and batter our way to 450 on flat tracks then lose at the World Cup in India which will undoubtedly be slow (different format but same problem). Stokes was the only one that seemed to work it out in the World Cup final as well, which wasn’t dissimilar.
Billy ballbag
Full Back
TravellingMackem
Winger
Whats your point? It was very poor at that point and condemned by everyone. The pitch changed and the combination of tailenders and the slowness suited the Curran’s - they’ll still get carted around the place on many pitches.
And the runout chances massively did cost us early on. If we’d have taken either finch, Labuschagne or both when we had relatively very simple run out chances (particularly the second one) then maybe we wouldn’t have needed the miracle at the end to save the game. To miss runouts on both in single figures and for them to make 70 and 50 respectively will cost you games more often than not.
To be fair, they were cruising at 140-2 at the time
Billy ballbag
Full Back
Everything you said in that post was rubbish.
Non threatening currans did alright with 3 wickets conceding very little.
Rashid coming on at the end getting the last wicket.
Seems like good captaincy and selection to me.
Especially given that the Currans were picked because we expected the pitch to do what it did and wanted them to take pace off. I'm sure we didn't expect the game to pan out exactly like it did but the selection on that basis was completely justified.
Voice of fair play
Striker
Buttler worked it out better than anyone that day scoring at a run a ball
TravellingMackem
Winger
Yes because Rashid was a massive threat all game. And Curran One took 0 wickets. Moronic post.
Yes he did also, should have included him too.
