3rd ODI; Australia v England at the SCG.

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Frustrating as it is, at least we're bottoming out now instead of right before or during a WC. Plenty of time to cut the dead weight (White, Head) and get our priorities straight (Carey in for Paine, learning how to bowl economically at the death).
 

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As good as Smith was during the ashes he's been an absolute liability during these odi's. Unimaginative captaincy, poor body language and scoring at a poor strike rate. His vice captain has probably been the worst of the lot....another poor 50 over series in South Africa and they may look at someone else to open with Finch
 
Honestly how did we win the World Cup?

Didn't that happen 3 years ago? That's like saying why didn't Matt Priddis win this year's Brownlow? Why isn't 5 Seconds of Summer still popular? Why isn't Donald Trump still on the Apprentice?
 

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Bloody poms.

We win World Cups without cheaty third umpires also..

Perfect medicine for the Aussies to dig deeper.

Not blaming Whitey or Finchy for this,he was trying to move the score along and went out to a tiny knick.

Whitey is out of his depth and should never have been recalled
 
Nice to know the inaugural event at Optus Stadium will be a dead rubber
 
Agree, but coming in at #7 you really need to be capable of upping the scoring rate in ODIs.

Not really Paine's fault but I don't think he is our long term lower order keeper-batsman when Carey is belting tons in the BBL.

He wasn't great tonight. Even if he had played the cameo innings of his life it would have been just a band-aid over the wound.
 
Our batsmen on the whole have been okay this series, finch has been brilliant, Stoinis and marsh good. It’s really been our bowlers that have sucked. Selectors have been really really poor, Smith’s captaincy terrible too. Paine in today probably cost us the game.

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I don't see how you can blame Paine..The England team's batting is very strong now. If the Aussie batsmen in the middle overs let the run-rate build, they are screwed, Aussies are not winning a match unless the English team gets cleaned up in about 40 overs.
 

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