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Australia v England 3rd T20I Camberra (09.10 BST)
Australia elected to field
ENG 49-33 (12 overs) Buttler 65 no Malan 23 Stokes 17 no
AUS 30-3 (3.5 overs) Woakes 3-4
No Result

I've been watching the European Cricket Championship matches from Malaga Spain. It's a 10 over competition broadcast on Freesport (channel 922).

England have a team (probably the best of our non professionals) who take on teams from the rest of Europe.

Entertaining apart from the annoying commentators .

Less than a year to plan for their defense of the ODI World Cup, England play a 3 match series against Australia.

1st ODI - Adelaide - Thurs 17 Nov (03.20 GMT)
2nd ODI - Sydney - Sat 19 Nov (03.20 GMT)
3rd ODI - Melbourne - Tues 22 Nov (03.20 GMT)

Coverage
BT Sports & BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

England Squad - Australia ODI's
Buttler © Ali, Billings, S Curran, L Dawson, Jordan, Malan, Rashid, Roy, Salt, Stone, Vince, Willey, Woakes, M Wood

Don't think Moeen Ali is terribly enamoured with the timing of the three match series against Australia

(13-11-2022 16:11 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  England Squad - Australia ODI's
Buttler © Ali, Billings, S Curran, L Dawson, Jordan, Malan, Rashid, Roy, Salt, Stone, Vince, Willey, Woakes, L Wood

Edit: Luke Wood for Mark Wood from original post.

Squad players omitted for todays starting XI :- Ali, S Curran, Rashid, Woakes

Australia v England 1st ODI Adelaide
Australia elected to field
England 287-9 (50 overs) Malan 134 Willey 34 no Buttler 28 Zampa 3-55 Cummins 3-62
Australia 291-4 (46.5 overs) Warner 86 Head 69 Smith 80 no Willey 2-51
Australia won by 6 wickets

(16-11-2022 21:51 )Snooks Wrote:  Don't think Moeen Ali is terribly enamoured with the timing of the three match series against Australia

Typical Moeen just being honest, but surely you should be able to motivate yourself to play Australia, & he can't make the excuse of being hungover.
The schedule is packed, yet he chooses to play in the IPL & other franchise tournaments, which all adds up to more travelling & living in hotels, away from home.
It seems that his interest in playing Test match Cricket again hasn't transpired into anything, in the summer, there was talk about a tour to Pakistan.
Sensibly Moeen wasn't selected for todays game.

I suppose it's the emotional come down from winning a World Cup.
Had England been knocked out before the final maybe the mindset may have been different.
Bit of the old 'Lets get back on the horse' or 'Got a point to prove' etc etc.

Being the current 50 over and now 20 over World Champions rightly or wrongly may manifest a subsconscious mentality not entirely suitable for any series even one against Australia.
The mind is a fickle beast.

Australia v England 2nd ODI - Sydney
Australia elected to bat
AUS 280-8 (50 overs) Smith 94 Stoinis 58 Marsh 50 Rashid 3-57 Woakes 2-42 Willey 2-44
ENG 208 (38.5 overs) Billings 71 Vince 60 Salt 23 Dawson 20 Zampa 4-45 Starc 4-47 Hazlewood 2-33
Australia won by 72 runs