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8 February 2015
Australia v India
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide

9 February 2015
South Africa v Sri Lanka
Hagley Oval, Christchurch

9 February 2015
New Zealand v Zimbabwe
Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln

9 February 2015
England v West Indies
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

9 February 2015
Pakistan v Bangladesh
Blacktown Olympic Park, Sydney

10 February 2015
Ireland v Scotland
Blacktown Olympic Park, Sydney

10 February 2015
India v Afghanistan
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide

11 February 2015
New Zealand v South Africa
Hagley Oval, Christchurch

11 February 2015
Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe
Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln

11 February 2015
Australia v United Arab Emirates
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne

11 February 2015
Pakistan v England
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

12 February 2015
West Indies v Scotland
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

12 February 2015
Ireland v Bangladesh
Blacktown Olympic Park, Sydney

13 February 2015
Afghanistan v United Arab Emirates
Junction Oval, Melbourne

I can't wait for the Scotland game....at last, a team we have a chance of beating!

mikesiva wrote:I can't wait for the Scotland game....at last, a team we have a chance of beating!

But you're playing England first.

Australia v India! What the world is waiting for.

I presume these count as ODIs. That is, no 15v15.

Don't think so, Arthur. Warm ups before ICC tournaments are always squad vs squad, not proper ODIs or List A.

Technically it is list A provided both teams play 11 players but with India, Fletcher/Dhoni they would at least use 6-7 bowlers and all batsman available in the game.

England generally like to use 11 players but they have in the past used 12 players to give an injured or players that need it a go/or use all the bowlers in an innings.
Not sure about the rest but suspect most teams will use more than 11 players since all/6 bowlers should have a spell in a game.

Got to be honest really comes in my nerves when people moan about warm up games not being classified list A or first class especially when their use stupid phrases that it isn't competitive enough or record don't count.
People should remember Warm up games are for the teams benefit not for the public, counties or even journalist likes.
Although mostly the public don't care about the status of the games their are just happy to see international players and generally tickets are cheap or free, Counties generally don't care although if the players score a hundred or does something special he might get annoyed for couple of days but then forget about it.
Journalist are probably the worse since I don't see how using 11 players or 13-14 players make's any difference to the standard of the game.

I need to check Directv to see if the matches are on the telle because I'm not getting my free stream any more.

do we know if SKY are showing any of these ?

Well Star Sports are and they showing 2 england games and I be totally surprised if Sky doesn't show the game their have rights to that involves england twice plus they generally show all games Star Sports show under 19, Women, Warm up games.

Looks like Clarke played v BD last night in a warm up for the warm ups.

intresting that he bowled, given his back issues..

SKY don't appear to be showing any of the warmup games

rich1uk wrote:SKY don't appear to be showing any of the warmup games

That's disappointing. Thought the England game at least would have been televised.

Sky only showing highlights of England warm up games.
really doesn't make sense since they hold the rights to actually show the game live but choose not to.

They are on BBC TMS though so that's something and maybe cricket Australia website might have them.