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Mar 2015
12:42pm, 9 Mar 2015
8,969 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Strictly speaking, you have to say Morgan is history, he was dealt a rough hand, but they have made to total Horlicks of of it. Andersona nd Broad may well go, and bowled averagley at best. Bell, he flatters too often, so bowling you have Woakes, Jordan, FInn, batting Hales, Taylor, Root, Butler, you have to find 4, 2 batsmen, 2 all-rounders? Bopara has been messed about. I can't think of anyone.....
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Mar 2015
12:50pm, 9 Mar 2015
688 posts
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makkem
All-rounder - Ben Stokes, should never have been left out of the squad.
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Mar 2015
12:51pm, 9 Mar 2015
8,971 posts
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Wriggling Snake
good, that's 3 to go.
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Mar 2015
1:06pm, 9 Mar 2015
10,229 posts
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TRO Saracen
How about this for stat:
100% of the teams managed by that useless tosser Peter Moores have a 0% chance of improving.
So fuck off...
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Mar 2015
1:18pm, 9 Mar 2015
10,230 posts
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TRO Saracen
Moores:
'I thought 275 was chaseable. We'll have to look at the data.'
I'll save you the trouble Pete me old sausage, I've looked at it. We were shit, and so are you.
FFS.
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Mar 2015
1:30pm, 9 Mar 2015
12,593 posts
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The Teaboy
Every England fan knew how that one was going to go without needing a laptop. No nine wicket cruises. It was going to be collapse, squeaky bum and coin toss at best. Before getting rogered in the QF if we were lucky.
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Mar 2015
1:33pm, 9 Mar 2015
115 posts
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old grey racer
Some lovely quotes coming from Moores!
"at some point we have to look at one day cricket full stop and where we go with it"
"I don't know if we are playing the right brand"
You have had a considerable time to plan for this tournament, it did not suddenly sneak up on you FFS!
Never mind we will go and analyse, get the statistics, review every wicket and announce that we are in good shape and that we were unlucky, this was a one off!!
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Mar 2015
1:55pm, 9 Mar 2015
10,231 posts
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TRO Saracen
Here's the full quote from Moores:
God, you just feel hollow. You feel very disappointed. You feel you've let people down. We worked hard with the ball to bowl more Test match lengths. I thought 275 was chaseable. We'll have to look at the data. It doesn't feel like a time to be analysing at the moment. It feels like a time to take it on the chin. You've got to be able to take pressure to be a good team. We have to accept we didn't play well enough. We haven't got a settled team. We've lost some players at the top of the order. You make the choice you think is the best and have to live with it. [Was it right to ditch Cook for Morgan?] We know we wre taking a risk. Eoin will be disappointed. He's got stuck into the job. He's not a bad captain because he lost tonight. We don't do analysis in the way it's talked about in the press - a player has to decide what his strengths are and how to apply them and the coach's job is to help them. We just haven't batted or bowled well. We're prepared to be flexible, let Jos go up the order, but at the end of the day we haven't played well enough.
This team has inexperienced players and it's hard [for them]. The main thing, fundamental to one-day cricket, is we don't have left-arm seamers, left-arm spinners and we don't have a great deal at home. We're not overloaded with high class one-day players at home.
The game's changing fast. We have to be powerful, fast, dynamic throughout our domestic cricket.
It's going to hurt like hell. I think I can make a difference but I'm not going to stand here and say to you that I am making a difference when we've just been knocked out of the World Cup.
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Mar 2015
1:55pm, 9 Mar 2015
356 posts
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fraggle
I was going to say "the mind boggles at how bad this was", but actually no it doesn't  going back to the bad old days again......
(and I really hate it when boycott is right!)
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Mar 2015
2:06pm, 9 Mar 2015
10,232 posts
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TRO Saracen
Boycs was surprisingly upbeat when I was driving to work. Bell was playing 'beautifully - proper cricket shots' and he was talking of 'get to the quarter finals, 2 good days are you're in the final and it's then a 2 horse race'.
Must have marvelous to listen to the run chase and his mood unravel over the ensuing couple of hours...:-) bet he's steaming now
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