Thread: England ODI team - Pitiful or Embarrassing?
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Old 26-01-2007, 11:24 AM in reply to greg's post starting "How about playing to form? We aren't..."
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The MAIN failure that happened in Australia is getting beat 5-0 in the Ashes.

I wonder why ANYONE is surprised England are getting thrashed in this one day series - it's just par for the course, England are a poor#8 in the world with only Bangladesh and Zimbawe below them.

Even in 2004 when England were at thier hight in Test cricket - in ODI's they could not even beat the West Indies, so no surprise they do so bad in Australia.

England could do well in the world cup - IF they stopped playing the terrible Test players that are supposed to be Englands 'BEST PLAYERS' and scour the counties for the best one day players arround, this team has had it, besides not being able to play the game, they have no confidence.

The players should not be critisised, this result was obvious from the squad England took to Australia, it's the selectors fault - they picked what they considered to br the best England squad.

Look back to the success of Lancashre and Kent in one day cricket in the early days - and they had specialist one day players.
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