Australia vs England 1 Post Game Wrap
Posted by Hamish McBrearty on January 12th, 2007
I’ve got to say first of all, I didn’t watch the end of the Australian innings for a couple of reasons. One, the game was effectively over after about 20 overs, and two I live in New Zealand and wasn’t going to stay up til after 11pm watching a game whose result was beyond doubt.
For those of you don’t know the result, Australia won by 8 wickets with just over 4 overs remaining. It took them a little longer than I expected but as I said in an earlier post, England simply didn’t have enough runs.
Once again England’s bowling was terrible. Andrew Flintoff gave up 11 runs worth of wides off the first over which largely set the tone for the rest of the match. Paul Nixon had a very nervous start to his ODI career behind the stumps, fumbling balls and missing balls keepers at this level should never drop.
The story of the match, however, was the injury to Kevin Pietersen. Pietersen broke his rib after being hit by Glenn McGrath and will take no further part in the Commonwealth Bank Series, robbing England of their best one day batsman. Pietersen looked in excellent form during his innings, top scoring for England. However without his aggressive batting style, England is lacking an extremely important factor in one day cricket. England’s top order now lacks a batsman who is able to hit out. Vaughan, Strauss and Bell are excellent batsmen but their natural game is to work the ball around, not to his sixes.
Australia’s easy victory over England last night has shown the England team is unlikely to get close to the Australia during the Commonwealth Bank Series. I will be looking forward to Sunday’s match against New Zealand from Hobart where we will find out if New Zealand can come close to Australia.
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