England v Australia

[Ottawa Green]

Aus. 96/6

 

[Brussels Bureaucrat]

This series has totally passed me by. I love cricket, and I'll watch almost any cricket anywhere, but...why are we playing a random ODI series against Australia at the end of September exactly?

 

[Ottawa Green]

England
(39/39 ov) 312/5

Australia
(24.4/39 ov, T:313) 126
England won by 186 runs

 

[Ottawa Green]

England
(33.1/50 ov) 232/5

Australia
Australia chose to field.

Duckett 101 no

 

[Ottawa Green]

238/6

Duckett out 107

 

[Ottawa Green]

202/2 to 250/7

 

[Ottawa Green]

260/8

 

[Ottawa Green]

England
(49.2/50 ov) 309/10

Australia

 

[Ottawa Green]

Aus 159/2

Australia need 145 runs from 29.2 overs.

 

[Ottawa Green]

4.30pm Rain stops play! Incredible, it's been threatening all innings and now here it comes, four balls after the mandatory 20-over mark had been passed to constitute a game. And I strongly doubt we'll be back out there now... the tension has been extraordinary!

 

[deathadder]

4.30pm Rain stops play! Incredible, it's been threatening all innings and now here it comes, four balls after the mandatory 20-over mark had been passed to constitute a game. And I strongly doubt we'll be back out there now... the tension has been extraordinary!

Ricky Ponting not impressed with England's time wasting tactics.
Ponting captained Australia during the 2009 Ashes Test in Cardiff when England attempted similar time-wasting tactics to sabotage the Aussies.

"We've seen this movie before," Ponting said in commentary for Sky Sports.