Annoying little cameo at the end from Carey but that was looking like it would be a monster score at one point so I'll take chasing 286.
Unsure if we will chase it like.
Unsure if we will chase it like.
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In last 17 overs Oz scored about 110 runs. That's not good enough given they had 9 wickets in hand around that mark.
Strong end by Carey, but England pulled it back well. Aus probably 30-40 short of where they feel they should have ended.
England should have enough in the tank to chase this.
England should have enough in the tank to chase this.
Absolutely. It could have been anything at 110-0 so we'll take sub-300 all day.
Yeah, probably at least 30-40 runs short?
285 is not a bad score and as @FlawlessThaw said, having Behrendorff and Lyon in place of NCN and Zampa will help Australia.
Had Aussies shown more intent and a bit of intelligence they could have easily made 320 or even close to 340. I still think ENgland have to bat extremely well to chase this. The SL loss has put extra pressure on them and this 285 could soon look like 320-330 if they don't start well.
A good start is very important here after the shambles of the last game.
Bairstow needs to survive past his first ball and make a big contribution. Vince will be out for a nothing score sharpish so Bairstow needs to be on his game.
Bairstow needs to survive past his first ball and make a big contribution. Vince will be out for a nothing score sharpish so Bairstow needs to be on his game.
Nervous about this chase after the last game 
Vince to edge a drive behind for 17
The delivery after he hits a lovely cover drive boundary that has all the commentators purring.
Vince is shite. If he's the best England has got then we're feck'd
Guaranteed
James fecking Vince.
Utter utter waste of time.
Utter utter waste of time.
Stuart Broad was hyping up Vince a moment ago and how he will smack Starc all around the park
England need Roy badly. Hales drug addiction may cost England big time.
Stuart Broad was hyping up Vince a moment ago and how he will smack Starc all around the park
... he's comically useless. Broad - oh dear.Stick Moeen into open and play Plunkett.
fecking hell stick Mark Wood in to open.
Anything is better than Vince.
fecking hell stick Mark Wood in to open.
Anything is better than Vince.
Vince is useless.
It boggles the mind how he keeps getting chances
I honestly don't get it.
You even get all the England pundits, bar Boycott, constantly bigging him up and how it's only a matter of time before he gets a big score.
He's clearly not good enough for international cricket. He's been given chance after chance in all formats of the game for years and he's consistently shit.
It's infuriating.
If only
I wasn't a cricket fan when Mark Ramprakash was playing.
Was he given more chances than James Vince?
Was he given more chances than James Vince?
It's because cricket is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to selecting players. Players with 'good techniques' who score feck all runs get selected over uglier players at every level of the game. England have genuinely done quite well resisting that over the past few years in ODI sides, but Vince got runs at a good time to get himself another chance that an uglier player wouldn't have got.
Do you think this is him done?
I heard worrying rumours they wanted him in the side for the Ashes....
Massive wicket
Well well well
Starc!!!!
This will be over soon.
England are blowing their World Cup big time.
England are blowing their World Cup big time.
For 4 years at home we could chase absolutely any total.
And now it's the World Cup and anything over 200 I wouldn't fancy us with
And now it's the World Cup and anything over 200 I wouldn't fancy us with
Yeah but English fans think ICC championships don't mean anything and it is more important to be ranked World Number 1..For 4 years at home we could chase absolutely any total.
And now it's the World Cup and anything over 200 I wouldn't fancy us with
Errrr...
PS this why I will never rate Root in the same breath as Kohli, Smith and Williamson.. they're so clutch. With Root you always sense he's gettable to a degree. Still a quality operator but they're a class above mentally.
How games do England need to win to get through?
Almost every team struggles the moment the ball starts to swing. You would expect England and Australia to be better at handling the swinging ball but here they are doubting themselves seeing the ball move
Win one and pray the NRR saves them, win two and are almost certain to go through
Infact if they win just one out of the 3 games left (including this one), they will need more than NRR to save them as mathematically 3 teams can overtake them
Starc is brutal.
England are folding.
Oh my, England are imploding