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England have just won a One-Day International series, which by all accounts is becoming a bit of a habit. With the exclusion of the 3-2 loss in India, England have been victorious in four of their last five ODI series’, with a 2-2 draw at home to South Africa spoiling a full house. Yet, despite…
New Zealand 269 (48.5 overs) England 270-2 (47.4 overs) It’s rarely easy to chase a total of 269 away from home – especially if your team is as inconsistent as Arsenal. However, England managed it at a canter in Napier today. In doing so, we erased our painful loss in the opening ODI, in which…
Here’s the second part of Shaun Edward’s epic Ashes preview … Two: Batting Long. Or, if you’re being less kind, batting dull. In the last victorious Ashes series, the main plan was to bat once, and bat long. It worked, England winning all three of their matches by an innings, having racked up scores of…
India 226. England 227-3 (47.2 overs) It’s amazing how a decisive victory in a dead rubber can lift our spirits. When you see the England cricket team play like they did yesterday, with so many first choice players missing, everything seems right with the world. Alternatively, you’ be forgiven for thinking: “why the hell didn’t…
India 285-6 (50 overs) England 158 (36 overs) Don’t worry. I’ll give the wheelie headlines a rest after this. But let’s face it. England’s performance in the second ODI was really, really bad. But let’s not get too downhearted. Nobody wheelie (sorry) expected us to win this series, so the odd bad day at the…
England 325-4 (50 overs) India 316-9 Well, well, well. Ashley Giles has already achieved something Andy Flower could not: an ODI win in the world champions’ back yard. Ian Bell was right. The warm up matches really were meaningless. England’s success was built on the one really strong aspect of our side: the top order…
This aint like dustin’ crops boy. It hasn’t been the most auspicious start for Ashley Giles. England were thrashed in the first warm up game and beaten soundly by Delhi in the second. Thank heavens we weren’t playing Jaipur and Mumbai too, otherwise things might have got really ugly. It’s all the more embarrassing because…
England 330. India 326-9 dec. England 161-3 Well you didn’t think we were going to breeze it, did you? Much as we’d have loved Kevin Pietersen to score a run a ball hundred and take the game away from India completely, it was never going to happen on this abysmal pitch. All things considered 161-3…
England 330. India 87-4. Stumps. Yesterday’s talking point was whether England’s score of 199-5 was any good. Even the experts on Sky and TMS were divided. Nasser Hussain thought it was ok, but gave India the advantage because he expected their batsmen to bat better on the slow surface; Sir Ian, on the other hand,…
England 413 and 58 for 0 beat India 327 and 142 by a country mile Ok, so ‘miracle’ might be too strong a word, but be honest. How many England supporters really thought we’d have a rat’s posterior’s chance of winning this match – especially when we lost the toss on Friday morning? Test matches…
Australia 251-7 (50 overs) England 252-4 (45.4 overs) I can’t remember a time when England have beaten Australia so easily in an ODI. If Lord’s was a canter, the Oval was a cakewalk. The Aussies’ total of 251 was never going to be enough on a fast scoring ground with a good pitch. Sky reckoned…
West Indies 238-9 (50 overs). England 239-2 (45 overs) If England win every ODI they play this season, they’ll become number one in the world. It’s a fact that’s as bizarre as it seems unlikely. However, if by some miracle we do reach the summit of the ODI rankings in the next few months, we…
Eng 288-6. Windies 172 all out Cricket watchers are only talking about one thing after Saturday’s ODI: the performance of Ian Bell. It was simply magnificent. If there’s a classier batsman playing international cricket in the world today, I haven’t heard of him. And if someone told me there was such a batsman, I wouldn’t…
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