Key occasions
1st over: Australia 5-0 ( Warner 1, Head 4) Warner will get off the mark first ball with a tuck off his hip then Head flays his first supply via further cowl for 4. It was a rubbish supply, reasonably paced brief and extensive. The world cup winner finds his groove thereafter.
“Sat in bay 15 of the Victor Trumper stand and the teams today give the game real muck up day vibes,” emails Andrew Jolly, clearly very a lot on my wavelength. “England again field basically a 2nd XI and Australia have just chosen the captain based on I guess who’s the tallest bloke? Nice day for it but.”
I’m fairly positive an early faculty workforce I performed in was captained by the cleverest man within the 12 months – unbiased of cricketing capacity. There have to be loads of different examples on the market of questionable captaincy choices – the man whose mum introduced the orange quarters and so on…
Chris Woakes has the brand new ball, David Warner has strike, the SCG is the image of accountable social distancing. Let’s cricket!
Out come the perimeters onto the SCG oval. England of their 50-over uniform of navy blue with sky blue accents. Australia clavicle to toe in canary yellow, a monochrome palate offset solely by inexperienced helmets.
This could also be the most effective ODI collection ever. Captains cannot be bothered taking part in. Nobody actually cares who wins. Headlines in every single place about Steve Smith being again in peak type primarily based on one cowl drive. All nice to see. #AUSvENG
— Dan Liebke (@LiebCricket) November 19, 2022
Smith is at the moment being interviewed on the host broadcaster about that cowl drive. It is great #content material however the chumminess of all of it is tough to attach with. I feel I’m a bit of useless inside. Maybe greater than a bit of.
England XI
Four adjustments for England with Moeen, Adil Rashid, Sam Curran and Chris Woakes all coming in. Buttler, Chris Jordan, Luke Wood and Olly Stone drop out.
England XI: Jason Roy, Phil Salt, Dawid Malan, James Vince, Sam Billings (wk), Moeen Ali (c), Chris Woakes, Sam Curran, Liam Dawson, David Willey, Adil Rashid
Australia XI
Two adjustments for the house facet with Hazlewood changing Cummins within the assault and as skipper, whereas Mitch Marsh will get an audition for the allrounder function rather than Cameron Green.
Australia XI: David Warner, Travis Head, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey (wk), Mitch Marsh, Marcus Stoinis, Ashton Agar, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood (c)
Australia received the toss and can bat
Josh Hazlewood received the toss and reckons the pitch will deteriorate because the day goes on so is pleased to have first use.
And Moeen Ali will skipper England! No Jos Buttler…
That information has been confirmed, and that is enjoyable, Josh Hazlewood will captain Australia. Not Steve Smith, not David Warner, not Alex Carey, or actually any of the ten different potentialities. Maybe in the present day goes to be filled with #context in spite of everything.
Some early reviews coming via that Pat Cummins, only one match into his ODI captaincy profession, goes to be rested in the present day.
It’s dry in Sydney, for a change, with temperatures hovering round 21C for the length. A stiff north-easterly wind might dictate the selection of ends for some bowlers.
Preamble
Jonathan Howcroft
Hello everybody and welcome to live over-by-over protection of the second One Day International between Australia and England on the SCG. We’ll be underway in Sydney at 2:20pm AEDT/3:20am GMT.
Thursday’s series-opener went in line with script: Australia, hungry for motion following a disappointing T20 world cup and keen to determine a optimistic narrative beneath new skipper Pat Cummins forward of subsequent 12 months’s 50-over world cup, cruised to victory over England’s second or third-ish XI a matter of hours after celebrating a significant international trophy.
Adelaide Oval was a few quarter full. Few exterior appeared to present two figs. With rugby league world cup finals, the boys’s soccer world cup on the doorstep, and the current males’s T20 world cup solely concluding final weekend, there’s solely a lot consideration and energy to go round. And a bilateral ODI collection between acquainted bedfellows sponsored by #contractualobligation ain’t going to get the heartbeat ranking.
But right here we’re, approaching the second instalment, and fairly in all probability 100-overs of cricket spanning roughly eight-hours. May as effectively make the most effective of it.
Here’s to a different have a look at Travis Head opening, Australia deciding on two frontline spinners, and the battle for allrounder supremacy. Here’s to extra publicity for England’s newcomers, Jason Roy’s battle for type, and James Vince making a fairly 20 or 30-something earlier than edging elegantly behind the wicket.
Are you extra excited than me? Then e mail me. Or in case you’re struggling much more with the dearth of context, tweet me whilst you nonetheless can @JPHowcroft.
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