Thread: England ODI team - Pitiful or Embarrassing?
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Old 26-01-2007, 10:47 AM in reply to Rachael's post starting "How about "promising"? Sure,..."
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Originally Posted by Rachael
How about "promising"? Sure, Strauss and Collingwood have lost form... but we knew that before this game and form can come back as quickly as it goes if a player can just be given a break... but Bell apparently played beautifully.. and with Bell and Joyce at the crease and the score at 70/2 off 15 overs the game was off to an excellent start.
The problem is we keep turning promising starts into terrible collapses! You would have thought by now the players would have learned their lesson, but no just one shambles after another.
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