Surprising how the mighty Australia had to work hard in spite of huge total. NRR won’t improve much for Australia if they win this.

There we go

Comfortable win in the end.

Lost the game in the field.

Chasing over 350, pressure/required rate eventually gets to you.

Congrats to the Australia. They are going to be dangerous now.

Pakistan will struggle against SA, England and NZ. I won’t be surprised if they barely get through against Bangladesh.

Australia getting some of their key players into form. Not fast enough though. Smith and Starc have to turn around. Also, figure out 5th bowler.

If we beat South Africa it makes things interesting. Especially with them still having to play Pakistan, New Zealand and India.

Afghanistan next for us then SA and Bangladesh. All 3 are must wins. We normally beat SA and the other 2. We could see our last game against England being a virtual QF where winner takes it all.

comment by Cricketer (U23027)
posted 20 minutes ago
Australia getting some of their key players into form. Not fast enough though. Smith and Starc have to turn around. Also, figure out 5th bowler.
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Head coming back who can bowl.

Pakistan beating SA is key. Netherlands showed SA batting can be broken. India and NZ have to lose a game or two each. Then this will be whole lot exciting.

comment by Duncan1987 (U2291)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Cricketer (U23027)
posted 20 minutes ago
Australia getting some of their key players into form. Not fast enough though. Smith and Starc have to turn around. Also, figure out 5th bowler.
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Head coming back who can bowl.
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He can bat fast and has better match awareness than Maxwell. When is he due back, next game?

comment by Cricketer (U23027)
posted 17 minutes ago
Pakistan beating SA is key. Netherlands showed SA batting can be broken. India and NZ have to lose a game or two each. Then this will be whole lot exciting.
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Ideally we need NZ to win every game and by the time we play them they will make some changes

Afgans and Bangla are more than capable of beating this Pak side.

comment by Cricketer (U23027)
posted 2 hours, 10 minutes ago
comment by Duncan1987 (U2291)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Cricketer (U23027)
posted 20 minutes ago
Australia getting some of their key players into form. Not fast enough though. Smith and Starc have to turn around. Also, figure out 5th bowler.
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Head coming back who can bowl.
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He can bat fast and has better match awareness than Maxwell. When is he due back, next game?
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Rumour was he'd be back for NZ, but I genuinely have no idea.

Good to see Zampa back in form. Played well against Sri Lanka and now against Pakistan.

Think the England vs Australia game in two weeks will be crucial.

Aus need to get rid of one of Smith or Labu so they both dont belong in ODIs anymore imo.

Doubt they will drop Smith so Head some come in either at 3 or 4 IMO.

Maxwell needs to fix up on his batting.

Would keep Smith as he can do short game slogging. I was at the SCG earlier this year to see him hit his second century in two games.

Head will come in as #2 and Marsh will drop to #3

You need a Smith to consolidate if early wickets are lost. Cant fill the team with T20 players and all wickets are not going to be flat as yesterday.

England bowl

Weirdly this game is on Australian terrestrial TV so might watch before I go out.

Cmon South Africa 🥳

If SA post a big total I am worried about our long tail. Willey at 7? not sure about that .

comment by BO$$™ (U6401)
posted about 9 hours ago
Aus need to get rid of one of Smith or Labu so they both dont belong in ODIs anymore imo.

Doubt they will drop Smith so Head some come in either at 3 or 4 IMO.

Maxwell needs to fix up on his batting.
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Head will come in for Marnus.

Think you’ll get a few wickets in the power play as the pitch might be tricky at first for the batters.