England's Tour of Australia - Ashes, ODIs and T20s 13/14

First it was Swann now Flower,another claim surrounding differences between him & KP,followed by a denial.

A little respite for England as Mitchell Johnson will be rested for the 1st ODI at the MCG on Sunday.

Broad will be rested for the first 2 ODI's of the 5 match series.

England have won the toss and will bat. Team: AN Cook*, IR Bell, JE Root, GS Ballance, EJG Morgan, RS Bopara, JC Buttler†, BA Stokes, TT Bresnan, CJ Jordan, WB Rankin. That means no Tredwell for this first ODI.

Australia - Warner, Finch, Watson, Clarke*, Bailey, Maxwell, Haddin+, Faulkner, Coulter-Nile, McKay, Doherty.

Cook out to the 4th balls of the day,as he edged to Haddin off the bowling off McKay for 4.

England made 269. Aus 83-0 off 14.1 overs have rode their luck and look to be on top at the moment.

This England fielding is pathetic. More dropped catches & misfields again in this match.
And we should send Beefy round to speak to the third umpire

England are playing old-fashioned ODI cricket with test Match style batsmen occupying the top 3,where Australia have 3 attacking batsmen.Safety first policy for England.

I am out of words to describe how pathetic this tour is. Bresnan at best looks like an average county Cricketer

(12-01-2014 10:10 )Charlemagne Wrote:  And we should send Beefy round to speak to the third umpire

Warner thought it was out. Buttler said it was definitely out. Warner was happy to go. Why did the umpires have a problem with it? At least the recalled Warner gave Buttler a sympathetic pat on the back.