1st ODI | Australia vs India @ SCG (13:20 local)

[Topkent]

At the last ODI World Cup, England went in with a game plan that was 20 years out of date because of total incompetence.

Australia right now are trying a few things in the build up to the World Cup with the knowledge that they have 2 world class batsmen to slip into the mix.

Don’t panic.

You mean the game plan we are using now?

 

[Richard Pryor]

This is unironically how Khawaja should have batted in the Test matches.

 

[Hamingja]

Should just go with a YOLO lineup

Short
Finch
Lynn
Maxwell
Stoinis
Wade

That's what he have been doing minus Wade and it hasn't worked. Selectors have now over corrected.

 

[Bad Horse]

That's some bowling action on Rayudu.

Please, its "bowling".

 

[JimDocker]

Why should they be?

Anti siphoning laws. They protected culturally important events and ensured they were available on FTA for decades. They still should be.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

What an absolute disgrace this isn't on FTA, un Australian.

 

[Hamingja]

So what is everybody’ s opinion on Carey opening today and the ramifications of it on the rest of the batting order?

I'm fine with it. He is used to opening in limited over cricket. The issue with the order they have picked is Handscomb.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Slow ass pricks, pick it up FFS.

 

[Bad Horse]

The failure of Khawaja to score a single of the other 5 balls in that over is symptomatic of why he should never be in the ODI lineup in the first place.

 

[crows dude]

I

So that Australian's that aren't well off can watch. I was wondering why this thread was so slow, lots of people can't watch the game.

im at pub

 

[Cleavy]

 

[Lynnsanity]

Sigh.
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/jam...train-big-bash-brisbane-heat-bbl08/2019-01-12

There goes our title hopes

 

[Topkent]

I'm fine with it. He is used to opening in limited over cricket. The issue with the order they have picked is Handscomb.

Averaging 29 in his first class domestic career with 5 half centuries. When he inevitably fails often he will put pressure on the middle order

 

[JimDocker]

Aussies setting up nicely here. Looking at around 300 plus. Might not be enough but it’s decent.

 

[janty]

Maybe Rashid Khan will become Australian one day.

 

[Moonwatcher]

327 first innings average in the last 5 ODIs.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

You’d expect 150+ in the last 20 with so many wickets in hand so 300 is still in play. Looks like these two are going to make a move now.

Handscomb selection looks a bit strange right now. With the top 4 they selected it’s like they’ve planned to be two down after 30 overs. Think Maxwell, Stoinis, Turner makes more sense from that position than Handscomb, Stoinis, Maxwell.

 

[MJG14]

Seems like you can bowl literally any spinner to Khawaja and he will either score at 2 an over or go out.

He would probably struggle with my 'spin', which actually consists of only nude deliveries which don't turn a millimetre.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Start lofting it you stodgy pricks!

 

[Moonwatcher]

Maybe Rashid Khan will become Australian one day.

We should be actively trying to make that happen.

 

[Topkent]

What the * happened to James Faulkner? Was almost the most valuable one day player for a few years there.

 

[NSWCROW]

out

 

[Woody15]

Hit him outside the line?

 

[CakeEater]

Plumb

 

[Moonwatcher]

Plum