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England's redemption Down Under? Aus ODIs & NZ Tour 2018
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- Oct 2011
- 26998
- Cambridgeshire
- Ipswich (convert)
- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
So, that went well. One of the harder pitches England have played on recently but they managed to bat themselves into a winning position thanks to Buttler and Woakes cranking up the run rate. And then still kept Australia down despite losing Plunkett to injury.
A series win in Australia is of course brilliant, and England will be looking to win four or five of them now, but this Australian ODI team is not great. The Sydney Morning Herald notes that they have lost 10 of their past 11 completed games and now the World Champions only just have a winning record since the 2015 title: 26 wins, 24 defeats. The problems with the team are fairly clear - firstly they haven't settled on a lineup in the way England have and secondly they can't get up to a match-winning run-rate.
New Zealand, however, are flying in ODIs of late.
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- Oct 2011
- 26998
- Cambridgeshire
- Ipswich (convert)
- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
England's record since the World Cup (completed matches only):
2015: 8-6
2016: 11-5-1*
2017: 15-4
2018: 3-0
TOTAL: 37-15-1
* tie vs Sri Lanka
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The most encouraging thing about this series has been the bowling. England's ODI revival has thus far largely been about the batting –*outscoring the oppo with a new free-hitting approach - but in this series, there's been some really smart, tight stuff with the ball. None of this means the World Cup's in the bag though - the top of the ODI game is a far more competitive place than the top of the Test game at the moment
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"Steve Smith did his job as captain, he won the toss" burbles James Taylor on TMS. Not sure that's really a skill as such. Norcross is however repeating the sensible point that England's ultra-aggressive approach works in bilateral series but on the other hand they can have matches when they collapse massively like this. What if they have a similar day in a World Cup knockout match?
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