Zimbabwe are rebuilding and their batting order is fragile to say the least. Ntini is bowling ok but lets pass judgement when he is destroying quality top order batsman.
Hopefully Jimmy Anderson is proving to everyone that his spells in Australia were not enhanced by the Aussies playing crap deliberately with some good performances in this series.
Final should be a ripper but England should win
jlc
ODI Series - Eng./Zimb./Sth. Africa
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Great demolition job by England on South Africa. South Africas batting never was their strong suit and it appears to be even more fragile these days.
England are definately on the way back and it was a great effort. Flintoff seems to have come on in leaps and bounds. They need a quality spin bowler to add to their attack.
But then again i think both Zimbabwe and South Africa are crap.
jlc
Great demolition job by England on South Africa. South Africas batting never was their strong suit and it appears to be even more fragile these days.
England are definately on the way back and it was a great effort. Flintoff seems to have come on in leaps and bounds. They need a quality spin bowler to add to their attack.
But then again i think both Zimbabwe and South Africa are crap.
jlc
The Torres bounce is officially dead. You are walking alone now Fernando.
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Never was their strong suit ? How quickly we forget. Gibbs, Kirsten, Kallis, Rhodes, Klusener, Boucher, Pollock ....
England's good showing can be put down to one thing. They now have an attack - at least for English conditions.
With Gough - real class and the one Englishman in quite a while who could've made an Aussie team - and Flintoff back from injury and Anderson and Jonnson stepping up, they now take the field with some confidence. A big difference to the pop gun attack used in Australia recently.
The other area on the improve for the Poms is their middle order. Trescothick and Knight would set the team on it's way with positive opening stands only to see collapse after collapse.
Knight has retired but Solanki has stepped into his shoes admirably and Vaughan has a degree of class. Flintoff, McGrath and Read are providing the fight in the middle.
The upcoming Test series looks mildly interesting. At this stage, Sth. Africa would go in as favourites.
England's good showing can be put down to one thing. They now have an attack - at least for English conditions.
With Gough - real class and the one Englishman in quite a while who could've made an Aussie team - and Flintoff back from injury and Anderson and Jonnson stepping up, they now take the field with some confidence. A big difference to the pop gun attack used in Australia recently.
The other area on the improve for the Poms is their middle order. Trescothick and Knight would set the team on it's way with positive opening stands only to see collapse after collapse.
Knight has retired but Solanki has stepped into his shoes admirably and Vaughan has a degree of class. Flintoff, McGrath and Read are providing the fight in the middle.
The upcoming Test series looks mildly interesting. At this stage, Sth. Africa would go in as favourites.
Donny.
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Yeah thats right it wasnt their strong suit. Their fielding was the best in the world with Rohdes, Gibbs and the safe hands of McMillan and the lethal arm of Donald or at least the equal of the Australians. Their bowling attack with Donald, Pollock, De Villiers, McMillan was world class and at some stages the equal of any attack in the world. They lacked a world class spinner which would have given them the variety of the Australians attack. However their batting was always the weak link and im sure the Australians would have seen that as the weak link as well.MAGFAN8 wrote:Never was their strong suit ? How quickly we forget. Gibbs, Kirsten, Kallis, Rhodes, Klusener, Boucher, Pollock ....
England's good showing can be put down to one thing. They now have an attack - at least for English conditions.
With Gough - real class and the one Englishman in quite a while who could've made an Aussie team - and Flintoff back from injury and Anderson and Jonnson stepping up, they now take the field with some confidence. A big difference to the pop gun attack used in Australia recently.
The other area on the improve for the Poms is their middle order. Trescothick and Knight would set the team on it's way with positive opening stands only to see collapse after collapse.
Knight has retired but Solanki has stepped into his shoes admirably and Vaughan has a degree of class. Flintoff, McGrath and Read are providing the fight in the middle.
The upcoming Test series looks mildly interesting. At this stage, Sth. Africa would go in as favourites.
England will beat South Africa in the test series. Im pretty sure they at least drew with South Africa the last time they played them in a test series.
jlc
The Torres bounce is officially dead. You are walking alone now Fernando.