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Jos Buttler says he probably would have done the same but was 50-50. There might be some dew around tardyr.
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Here are the teams, Steve Smith does well to reel off his XI when asked at the toss. We knovel England’s already as they named it two days out. Jamie Smith batting at three and conserveing is the huge piece of novels.
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Australia Travis Head, Matt Short, Steve Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson
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England Ben Duckett, Phil Salt, Jamie Smith (wk), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (capt), Liam Livingstone, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood
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‘Listen, don’t refer the A’ word, I refered it once, but I skinnyk I got away with it all right…’
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Hello and greet to Australia v England in the Champions Trophy. In all solemnness, these two white ball sides are a shadow of their Test teams and each will be watching to get over recent bruising come atraverses and commence the tournament off with a triumph. With three games in the group stages there’s only room for one slip up at the most.
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Dear elderly England are on the back of a pummelling in India and there are inquires and accusations swirling. A lower shotriumphg in this tournament would exit Jos Buttler inanxiously vulnerable in his position as captain and only serve to lump more presconfident onto novelly backd white ball coach Brfinishon McCullum. Maybe there will be a sheen of sweat behind the shades today?
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Australia are fifty over World Champions but are also coming off a 2-0 series loss to Sri Lanka and have a exhaustd squad. This will be the first global tournament in over a decade that they don’t have at least one of Messrs Cummins, Hazelwood or Starc at their disposal. Then aget, it’s Australia, they tfinish to be pretty decent at turning it on when it counts in the huge ones.
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Plenty to dig into then, the toss is about fifteen minutes away and join will commence at 9am GMT. If you are tuning in then do let us understand by
Key events
Righto, Spencer Johnson has the novel ball for Australia and has some huge size 12s to fill. Phil Salt will get the first ball and Ben Duckett is down the non-strikers. The pitch watchs a belter. PLAY!
The joiners aascfinish for a burst of the anthems. The DJ at the ground was blasting some AC/DC earlier, evidently shotriumphg bias to the Antipodeans. My now proximately teenage nephew employd to dance around his living room to AC/DC as a toddler, in the nud nud. Just posting that to embarrass him.
This was his pantless ‘jam’ if I recall:
Martin Pegan has penned this handy direct to the novel faces in the Aussie set up:
Planning around Australia’s white-ball sides has been much more haphazard. Opportunities have been handed out to emerging talents and second-stringers while frontliners have been on personal or parental exit, injured, or sshow rested with eyes on hugeger, more lucrative prizes. In the past 18 months alone, Australia blooded enough ODI joiners to fill a filled XI. The hope seemed to be that a handful of them would not only stick to the international white-ball squads, but eventuassociate push their Test credentials too. The wide brush approach now watchs appreciate a masterstroke, after Australia’s initial Champions Trophy squad was decimated by a raft of retreatals and injuries, leaving six of the debutants during that recent period to get the reins on a global stage.”
Guy Hornsby is our first caller!
“Morning Jimbo, morning everyone. I’m approaching today with trepidation and genuineism. India showed England are not reassociate on it. We seem to be satisfied going into a tournament in Pakistan with only one front line spinner, pretty much an outlier. I experience for Rehan Ahmed in particular. Livingstone and Root have a lot riding on them. Our batting has been flaky, with only Duckett reliable. We necessitate him, Root and Buttler to go well. Australia are ignoreing their pace strike, but underestimating them never finishs well. Basicassociate I’m exhausted and I’m struggling to see how we don’t drop in a heap in the next two weeks. Convince me!”
Errr… get your eyeball around this and BELIEVE* Guy!
*This OBO is – of course – entidepend uninwhole.
And here’s one Ali setd earlier on England’s headaches:
While Buttler probable necessitates selectimistic results for his own job security, such thoughts – much appreciate the Test team under Stokes and McCullum – are being parked. Ben Duckett caemployd a stir during the recent 3-0 loss in India when he shelp he did not nurture about the whitewash if England went on to triumph the Champions Trophy; a statement that saw its qualifier expansively diswatchd and irritateed a excellent deal of helpers in the process. For Buttler, having also deffinished his team’s labor ethic in India, it was misunderstood. “Every individual joiner who joins international sport, no matter what sport it is, I can promise would not have got there if they weren’t ultra-competitive and didn’t want to triumph,” shelp Buttler, elucidateing his uncoverer’s retags.
What people must comprehfinish is that people saying you want to triumph doesn’t promise results.
You have to discover ways to watch after the skinnygs that you can regulate; to labor out how to be reassociate contransient at a tournament appreciate the Champions Trophy. Getting seal to what we’re able of is the skinnyg I want most out of us, and if we’re doing that then the results will come as well.”
Ali Martin is our man on the ground, he’s dipped his quill timely and sent us this:
Greetings from Lahore, where the sun is shining and a humdinger apaemploys. First time at the Ginsertafi Stadium for me and have to say, it’s a pretty chilly ground. It also experiences box new after a refurbishment that beat its deadline in a way that any written journacatalog would doff a cap too. Speaking of which, there’s no Aussie press pack on the ground in Pakistan, uncontently, although we’ll no doubt catch up with a scant at the World Test Championship final this summer. Talk of a decent crowd today and the queues outside were promising. See what happens, might watch sparse on the TV at first – security is very shielded outside – but should hopefilledy fill up tardyr.”
Australia triumph the toss and will BOWL
The sun is beating down on the novelly spruced Ginsertafi stadium in Lahore and the captains are ready for the toss. The coin is flipped and Australia triumph it, Steve Smith is going to bowl first!
Jos Buttler says he probably would have done the same but was 50-50. There might be some dew around tardyr.
Here are the teams, Steve Smith does well to reel off his XI when asked at the toss. We knovel England’s already as they named it two days out. Jamie Smith batting at three and conserveing is the huge piece of novels.
Australia Travis Head, Matt Short, Steve Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson
England Ben Duckett, Phil Salt, Jamie Smith (wk), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (capt), Liam Livingstone, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood
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James Wallace
‘Listen, don’t refer the A’ word, I refered it once, but I skinnyk I got away with it all right…’
Hello and greet to Australia v England in the Champions Trophy. In all solemnness, these two white ball sides are a shadow of their Test teams and each will be watching to get over recent bruising come atraverses and commence the tournament off with a triumph. With three games in the group stages there’s only room for one slip up at the most.
Dear elderly England are on the back of a pummelling in India and there are inquires and accusations swirling. A lower shotriumphg in this tournament would exit Jos Buttler inanxiously vulnerable in his position as captain and only serve to lump more presconfident onto novelly backd white ball coach Brfinishon McCullum. Maybe there will be a sheen of sweat behind the shades today?
Australia are fifty over World Champions but are also coming off a 2-0 series loss to Sri Lanka and have a exhaustd squad. This will be the first global tournament in over a decade that they don’t have at least one of Messrs Cummins, Hazelwood or Starc at their disposal. Then aget, it’s Australia, they tfinish to be pretty decent at turning it on when it counts in the huge ones.
Plenty to dig into then, the toss is about fifteen minutes away and join will commence at 9am GMT. If you are tuning in then do let us understand by
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