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Old 05-03-2007, 06:44 PM in reply to Ninjaman's post starting "West Indies 270/5 off 50 Samuels 100..."
Henners Henners is offline
(AUS) Passed Damien Fleming's 305 Test runs
 
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England 287-8 of their 50 overs. At the moment, as I type, Jon lewis has dismissed K Tucker for 2 runs leaving on 24-4. They bowled wel to start bermuda, but they just don't have what it takes to finish off the middle order quick enough. K Pieterson aout for 46, typical pieterson, makes a start and goes out. Him and Collingwood were both dismissed by a 20 stone policeman, sounds bad? Well he can bowl a mean off-spin, like panesar. Leverick is the name and hes batting now.

Good 76 from Dalrymple but apart from bell and pieterson, who put in about 93 between them, England really haven't had any other contributers. They seem to be leaving it to the bowlers to do the work. Anderson has 2 wickets and Mahmood and Lewis took 1 each.

I hope for a better batting performance from the openers against Australia next, but as long as we can put a decent knock, say 250-300, we can always bowl well and get them out. But this is the Aussies, and i would rather we bowled well than chased, they don't look so hot at the moment.

How the other games going? Oh, and this message took a while to type and Lewis just got Leverick out lbw, they are 28-5, ripping through them now, but we can see the difference class. Bowling them out for under 50 will do us a world of good.
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