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Badger Feb 2015 10:55am, 20 Feb 2015 4,748 posts	0 Badger It's a cunning plot by the team to make the ICC and ECB rethink the structure of threat World Cup. It's very noble of them, when you think about it.
Badger Feb 2015 10:55am, 20 Feb 2015 4,749 posts	0 Badger The next, not threat. Pesky autocorrect.
Wriggling Snake Feb 2015 11:03am, 20 Feb 2015 8,825 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Can you imagine losing to Scotland, it can happen now....
TRO Saracen Feb 2015 11:07am, 20 Feb 2015 10,117 posts	0 TRO Saracen I'd make Scotland slight favourites....
FreshStart Feb 2015 10:02pm, 22 Feb 2015 2,263 posts	0 FreshStart So it's time for England v Scotland. Any predictions?
Scorge Feb 2015 11:29pm, 22 Feb 2015 31 posts	0 Scorge we are playing england into form. and our bowling is rubbish. will be chasing at least 350. sigh!
flanker Feb 2015 12:36am, 23 Feb 2015 15,634 posts	0 flanker Or maybe not. Just when you thought even England can't fuck it up, they try their best to prove you wrong Why when you have one in form batsmen who's been playing well, why move him from his natural position to no. 6?? You have to worry how (if) the team management think about the game.
The Teaboy Feb 2015 8:21am, 23 Feb 2015 12,523 posts	0 The Teaboy I'll say it. We were still poor. Moeen apart. From the base we had, Australia, India, South Africa, NZ would have all scored at least 350 and probably nearer 400. I watched the first 14 overs or so and Bell could barely get it off the square. Even four balls were being poked for ones and twos.
Badger Feb 2015 9:40am, 23 Feb 2015 4,755 posts	0 Badger And it's still comfortably one of the best England performances. Looks as though Morgan did ok - fewer runs, but many fewer balls. Other than that, after Bell and Ali were out, it was looking like an old-school middle order collapse. Wouldn't have got past 300 if Scotland hadn't been so generous with the wides, either.
TRO Saracen Feb 2015 9:46am, 23 Feb 2015 10,123 posts	0 TRO Saracen Agreed Teabers, watched the early overs and a few big hits from Moeen aside there was no urgency. Boycs had it right: bowling was innocuous and good batsmen playing well would be putting pressure on, not nudging and nurdling away. Just squeaked over the 300 - a par score against a decent attack and 60-70 below par against Scotland. That spinner of theirs was causing hilarity, most people couldn;t remember a bowler who was so slow yet we seemed to treat him like he was Warne making it hiss and spit out of a foothole. Tragic. Sooner this farce is over the better, tbh - hopefully with only minimal further humiliations.