shankybiggestengfan wrote:greyblazer wrote:OZ tracks are good for batting in one-day cricket.Until I'm convinced that Bell, Cook and co. are capable enough to chase down targets in excess of say 270-280 I won't think of England. I have seen too many defeats away from home in one-day cricket to be optimistic.
I do see your point but there aren't a lot of high quality ODI sides at the moment. The pitches in Australia can be quite unpredictable to be honest. Sydney, for example, was a road when we played the Aussies in 2010/11 but it was a fairly green pitch for the CB series last year.
You are thinking about one match where bad weather conditions didn't allow the groundsmen to prepare a typical one-day track.
Scores notched up during that CB series.
1st Match: Australia v India at Melbourne - Feb 5, 2012
Australia 216/5 (32/32 ov); India 151 (29.4/32 ov)
Australia won by 65 runs (D/L method)
2nd Match: India v Sri Lanka at Perth - Feb 8, 2012
Sri Lanka 233/8 (50 ov); India 234/6 (46.4 ov)
India won by 4 wickets (with 20 balls remaining)
3rd Match: Australia v Sri Lanka at Perth - Feb 10, 2012
Australia 231 (49.1 ov); Sri Lanka 226 (49.5 ov)
Australia won by 5 runs
4th Match: Australia v India at Adelaide - Feb 12, 2012
Australia 269/8 (50 ov); India 270/6 (49.4 ov)
India won by 4 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)
5th Match: India v Sri Lanka at Adelaide - Feb 14, 2012
Sri Lanka 236/9 (50 ov); India 236/9 (50 ov)
Match tied
6th Match: Australia v Sri Lanka at Sydney - Feb 17, 2012
Australia 158 (40.5/41 ov); Sri Lanka 152/2 (24.1/41 ov)
Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets (with 101 balls remaining) (D/L method)
7th Match: Australia v India at Brisbane - Feb 19, 2012
Australia 288/5 (50 ov); India 178 (43.3 ov)
Australia won by 110 runs
8th Match: India v Sri Lanka at Brisbane - Feb 21, 2012
Sri Lanka 289/6 (50 ov); India 238 (45.1 ov)
Sri Lanka won by 51 runs
9th Match: Australia v Sri Lanka at Hobart - Feb 24, 2012
Australia 280/6 (50 ov); Sri Lanka 283/7 (49.2 ov)
Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets (with 4 balls remaining)
10th Match: Australia v India at Sydney - Feb 26, 2012
Australia 252/9 (50 ov); India 165 (39.3 ov)
Australia won by 87 runs
11th Match: India v Sri Lanka at Hobart - Feb 28, 2012
Sri Lanka 320/4 (50 ov); India 321/3 (36.4 ov)
India won by 7 wickets (with 80 balls remaining)
12th Match: Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne - Mar 2, 2012
Sri Lanka 238 (50 ov); Australia 229 (49.1 ov)
Sri Lanka won by 9 runs
1st Final: Australia v Sri Lanka at Brisbane - Mar 4, 2012
Australia 321/6 (50 ov); Sri Lanka 306 (49.2 ov)
Australia won by 15 runs
2nd Final: Australia v Sri Lanka at Adelaide - Mar 6, 2012
Australia 271/6 (50 ov); Sri Lanka 274/2 (44.2 ov)
Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets (with 34 balls remaining)
3rd Final: Australia v Sri Lanka at Adelaide - Mar 8, 2012
Australia 231 (49.3 ov); Sri Lanka 215 (48.5 ov)
Australia won by 16 runs
Leaving that one game at Sydney where the match was affected by rain you hardly see low scores. At Gabba which usually favours the Ozzies, the SL batting line-up that is said to be suspect against pace bowling almost chased down a score of 321! Of course India made 321 in just 36.4 overs to thrash SL at Hobart. Poor SL team as they made 320 and got thrashed
Even when Trezza and Knight were making merry in OZ in 02/03, the middle order would panic and lose its way.I don't think anything has changed now.