Tri-Series 2007 Game 7: England plumb new depths in 9 wicket loss
Now I'm always up for some English humiliation but even my appetite has been more than sated after Australia defeated England by 9 wickets (with 25 overs to spare). When Andrew Flintoff won the toss and batted, the crowd booed. I was at home booing also - my hopes of some big Aussie hitting (and a game that went the distance) was gone. But despite the low expectations, England still managed to disappoint. Mal Noye began with one of his patented front foot sweeps off Mitchell Johnson onto the roof of the Chappell Stand. Unfortunately, he wafted at a wide one from Lee in the next over and nicked to Gilchrist.
What followed was a steady procession of English wickets. The worst was Collingwood who spooned Symonds to midoff. It resembled backyard cricket where you're hitting catches to the kids over the bowler's head. Even Andrew Symonds seemed bemused. England's innings ended at 110 in the 35th over, with their last 5 wickets falling for 7 runs. Brett Lee has the impressive figures of 2 for 8 off 8 overs but the pick of the bowlers was Mitchell Johnson taking 4 for 45. Johnson is looking very settled in the Australian squad - it's hard to believe the 25 year old has only played 13 ODIs.
Australia came out and at least had a crack at a speedy, entertaining finish. Gilchrist hit 4 boundaries off one Liam Plunkett over but was runout for one cheeky single too many. Nixon still managed to botch the runout attempt striking the stumps with his forearm but luckily for him, the umpire missed it. It then fell to Hayden and Ponting to finish off the paltry run chase within 25 overs (earning 2 bonus points). Hayden didn't particularly impress scoring 30 off 68 balls - the only question mark over Australia is whether Haydos has booked his seat for the World Cup yet.
The commentators were joking that the early finish would save the Adelaide Oval on electricity bills. I'm sure any money saved would be dwarved by the loss in beer sales with the game ending 3 hours early. In fact, selling these games as Day/Night matches might land Cricket Australia into false advertising issues - the sun hadn't even set by the time Australia posted the winning runs.
Considering the anticipation and excitement just a few months ago, it boggles the mind how deflating and one-sided this summer has ended up. As Duncan Fletcher seems to have no effect in motivating his troops, it fell to John Buchanan to try and fire them up with some insulting comments. After England's insipid performance today, perhaps he needed to slap them in the face with a glove and challenge them to a duel.
| Posted by JC on Fri 26 Jan |  12 comments |
I hope the Adelaide crowd booed the Poms off the field at the end of the game. They were diddled out of 40 overs; perhaps that entitles the spectators to a refund?
Flintoff should now do the honourable thing and resign, if Vaughan isn't ready to resume. But who would replace him? What about Nixon the motivator?
If Flintoff was Japanese he'd have plunged a sword into his chest by now!
Agree with you about Collingwood's dismissal. Just how did he score those Test Match runs??
Posted by Dan Tas on 2007-01-26 20:14:05
Flintoff should now do the honourable thing and resign, if Vaughan isn't ready to resume. But who would replace him? What about Nixon the motivator?
If Flintoff was Japanese he'd have plunged a sword into his chest by now!
Agree with you about Collingwood's dismissal. Just how did he score those Test Match runs??
Posted by Dan Tas on 2007-01-26 20:14:05
Gone are the days of enjoying the rest of a day-nighter after work!
Posted by TA on 2007-01-26 20:45:49
Posted by TA on 2007-01-26 20:45:49
At least this one was on a public holiday!
Problem was I use the cricket to catch up on my cartooning, I only got halfway through this weekend's sunday cartoon cause the game was cut so short.
Posted by JC on 2007-01-26 23:18:17
Problem was I use the cricket to catch up on my cartooning, I only got halfway through this weekend's sunday cartoon cause the game was cut so short.
Posted by JC on 2007-01-26 23:18:17
It truely was absolutely disgraceful. I've never seen a side walk off from an international game looking so amateur. The Barmey Army need to do the honourable thing and start a campaign to bring them home before they ruin English cricket forever!!
p.s do you do a myspace page too??
Posted by okbl on 2007-01-27 00:35:04
p.s do you do a myspace page too??
Posted by okbl on 2007-01-27 00:35:04
No, I don't do a myspace page. Why do you ask? Do they do blogs?
Posted by JC on 2007-01-27 00:42:47
Posted by JC on 2007-01-27 00:42:47
Just wondered...if you have your own myspace page you can do blogs and all sorts of things, some of the team have got them although I'm not convinced they're all genuine! :)
Posted by okbl on 2007-01-27 01:23:51
Posted by okbl on 2007-01-27 01:23:51
Well, with the extra hours England gifted me, at least I got some of the packing for my upcoming move done.
Apparently Mal Loye's other shot, reliable but nowhere near as impressive as the slog-sweep six, is to get out edging.
I've been of the opinion that taking Hayden into the World Cup as opener could be advantageous given how well he and Gilchrist work together and communicate. Except, not today. Hayden must have wandered into the English team meeting by mistake this morning.
Posted by Lliam on 2007-01-27 01:59:43
Apparently Mal Loye's other shot, reliable but nowhere near as impressive as the slog-sweep six, is to get out edging.
I've been of the opinion that taking Hayden into the World Cup as opener could be advantageous given how well he and Gilchrist work together and communicate. Except, not today. Hayden must have wandered into the English team meeting by mistake this morning.
Posted by Lliam on 2007-01-27 01:59:43
The highlight for me today was watching Nixon farm the strike from Panesar. Quite why he believes he is a better batsman than Monty baffles me. Even more baffling is why Fletcher thinks Monty should bat at No.11. The coach has an ego the size of a T-Rex.
Posted by jethro on 2007-01-27 02:13:01
Posted by jethro on 2007-01-27 02:13:01
To dan..specially....You aussies have become so aggresive that you can't even accept two losses..It's quite fascinating to see the number of people who are happy in Australia when they loosess...just about 1 or 2....
I think Aussies needs to accept their bashing lost from England plan ahead for thr World Cup rather than crying and blaming England for it.
Posted by Jessica on 2007-02-12 17:06:43
I think Aussies needs to accept their bashing lost from England plan ahead for thr World Cup rather than crying and blaming England for it.
Posted by Jessica on 2007-02-12 17:06:43
I thinking is very bad about 15 minutes later es izdomaju, ka ir kruta būt labam spēlmanim...
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