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    I only watched it up until the lunch interval. I struggle to be interested in ODIs, partly because we are crap in them, and partly because aside from in tournaments, every team is always rotating their players.

    I'm guessing part of any strange decisions might be because Taylor was in charge instead of Morgan - not sure how much captaincy he's done before, but for England he hasn't done any.

    I can only assume they opened the bowling with Topley instead of Wood because they wanted to look at him. I haven't seen anything of him myself, but I wasn't impressed from those few overs I saw.

    Rashid is a funny one - I'm guessing they wanted to give him a go before it was too late, but he is pretty mercurial - but if you play him, you've got to bowl him I guess. There's a lot of talk about playing him in the test team, but I don't know that he really has the control - he'd work as a second spinner, but we've already got one of those in Moeen - what we need is a first spinner!

    Having said all that, it is pretty hard to be too hard on the bowlers or even the decisions of which ones to use when they are trying to defend such an abject total in the first place. That didn't lose the game - it was the batting failures beforehand.

    Reminded me a lot of when I'd be playing cricket back home and one team gets rolled quickly - there was often a 20 over "beer match" slogfest afterwards. The crowd would have loved that yesterday!

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    So the test squad for the games against Bangladesh has been announced:

    Batsmen: Bancroft, Burns, Khawaja, Smith, Voges, Marsh S
    All Rounders: Marsh M, Maxwell
    Wicketkeeper: Nevill
    Fast bowlers: Starc, Siddle, Cummins, Fekete
    Spinners: Lyon, O'Keefe

    Headlines for me:

    Voges as vice captain - looks like a couple of OK innings at the end of the Ashes has saved him, possibly because Warner is injured?
    Shaun Marsh retained, but will he play? Which batsman (or batsmen if they go with both allrounders) will miss out?
    Fekete - At 30, an interesting selection. He may have taken a lot of shield wickets and done well for Aus A, but all the angst over whether to ditch Siddle or not, and he is the same age...

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    I've got a feeling Vogues has a bit to offer yet. Really liked the looks of him and how he was adapting the last couple of bats. I's say SOS will be vying for an opening position against the youngsters.
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