Results for tag: one-day
Posted by:
mvaughan
on Feb 10, 2012 at 08:01:46 AM
The Test series was a rude awakening for England but they get a chance to try and redeem themselves with this four-match ODI series. If we're looking for positives then we can say that some of the England batsmen who now take to the limited-overs format should know how to play the likes of Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman by now. One of the guys who really struggled against them, Ian Bell, has been dropped and there are some new guys like Jos Butler, Steven Davies and Ravi Bopara coming in who may not have played against those guys before but then again, won't have nightmares about what happened in the Test matches to haunt them.
Kevin Pietersen is opening the batting just like he did at the World Cup and that's a good move. Firstly because he's probably still England's most dangerous player...
Posted by:
mvaughan
on Oct 20, 2011 at 10:08:44 AM
Very often when you lose a game of cricket you can go back and at least take some positives from it. The worrying thing for England is that really wasn't the case with Monday's match. Ok, Steve Finn bowled at over 90mph at times and continues to look a great prospect but that was about it.
We had five batsmen getting past 30 and failing to make a single half-century between them. I'll give Jonny Bairstow some slack because he's a young player on his first England tour and in fairness to Samit Patel, he got one that kept very low. But just like I said before that match, you need to get big scores in India to win games and unless someone does that, things aren't going to improve for England. And there's no excuse for someone not getting one. You only need to look at how easily Virat Kohli...