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Australia in England 2012
Anderson a doubt for The Oval
June 29, 2012
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England's spearhead James Anderson is in doubt for the second ODI against Australia at The Oval on Sunday after picking up a suspected groin strain during his side's 15-run victory over the tourists at Lord's. Anderson took the vital wickets of David Warner and George Bailey but grimaced his way through his spells and was unable to bowl out, leaving Ravi Bopara to deliver one over.
Alastair Cook, the England captain, said that Anderson appeared to have suffered a groin strain and would need to be assessed ahead of the second match of the series. Given the tight schedule surrounding these five matches and the Tests against South Africa that follow, the hosts would be unlikely to risk a half-fit Anderson, their most accomplished and experienced bowler.
"There is a slight worry about his groin, clearly he stayed out there, but he's just off the field now and we're going to have to assess him tomorrow morning and we'll let you know as soon as we know," Cook said. "We did discuss him staying off and he wanted to come back on and he obviously bowled after it. But that last over he didn't want to bowl it so we had to use another option."
Anderson and Tim Bresnan made important contributions to the victory despite being taken for runs at other times, Bresnan rebounding from an early mauling from Warner to claim the wickets of Steve Smith and the Australian captain Michael Clarke
"What is very nice as a captain when you've got five experienced bowlers like that, they might bowl the odd bad over but they don't bowl many bad spells. So we knew we'd take it down to the wire. We just kept nipping wickets just at the right time," Cook said. "As a captain it certainly makes it easier when you know they might have a bad over, you take them off and they normally get it right when they come back. That's the bonus when you've got four quality quicks."
Clarke, meanwhile, was left to ponder his side's concession of 48 runs from England's final four overs, and a series of mis-steps with the bat, including the run-out of Matthew Wade in which he played a part.
"That run-out probably played a big part in us not winning the game," Clarke said. "If Matthew and I were there at the end we said if we can get there with six overs to go, you never know, the run rate was up to about eight and a half, but if we were there we were confident we'd be a chance.
"It's disappointing and run-outs tend to do that, tend to cost you the game. There are areas that are positive for us, the way we started with the ball was really positive, it was a good opportunity for the batters to get a good look at the England fast bowlers but the areas for us to improve are death bowling and not losing wickets at important stages."
Daniel Brettig is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here
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Assistant editor Daniel Brettig had been a journalist for eight years when he joined ESPNcricinfo, but his fascination with cricket dates back to the early 1990s, when his dad helped him sneak into the family lounge room to watch the end of day-night World Series matches well past bedtime. Unapologetically passionate about indie music and the South Australian Redbacks, Daniel's chief cricketing achievement was to dismiss Wisden Almanack editor Lawrence Booth in the 2010 Ashes press match in Perth - a rare Australian victory that summer.
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Leave him out- we need him fit when the real competition arrives.
Posted by CricketingStargazer on (June 30, 2012, 20:24 GMT)Wombats, I would back both Kieswetter and Bopara. Bopara has good recent form and Kieswetter will score big runs for England over his career. Bopara does not convice me in Tests, but he has done well enough in ODIs. Kieswetter needs a settled role in the team. If he is going to bat at 6, so bei it, but really he should be opening or at 7 and he most definitely should not be moved up and down constantly,
Posted by Behind_the_bowlers_arm on (June 30, 2012, 19:59 GMT)jack, The Australian pace attack that has done well in the last few Test series has chiefly been various permutations of Hilfenhaus , Siddle , Pattinson, Harris & Starc. Not sure who will be the combination next year but long term I'd guess it may be Pattinson, Cummins & Starc. Look out for them together in the upcoming Aust A v England Lions matches.
Posted by jackthelad on (June 30, 2012, 18:35 GMT)Anderson will be a miss (but shouldn't think of playing if he's got a twinge) and Bopara just doesn't seem to have the temperament ... Onions for Anderson, which might also make 'sick note' Broad pull himself together, if he becomes the senior quick. The greatest lesson of the first (nonsensical) One-dayer, however, was that this ferocious, all-devouring Oz pace attack we heard so much about doesn't really seem to be all that special (shades of those 'new McGraths' Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Tait - in reality, fair to middling second-change bowlers, though Johnson had the edge in that he could generally manage more than 2 overs before he needed a lie-down).
Posted by R_U_4_REAL_NICK on (June 30, 2012, 15:07 GMT)If they'd only stop practicing with those oversized cricket balls! Earlier there was a photo of Finn with one, and now here's a photo with Anderson using one.
Posted byWatching Tremlett bowl as I write this. He, Onions and Woakes should all be ahead of "show pony" Dernbach. Woakes batting 10. Man that's some batting line up!
Posted by 5wombats on (June 30, 2012, 14:25 GMT)Good thread; nice one. Regarding Kieswetter - he's "gone off" a bit for us as a batsman, and he might not be far from being dropped in favour of Bairstow. However - that catch to dismiss Warner was a blinder! - but then later he dropped one behind the stumps off Swann. We are not convinced about Bopara either. At the moment its 3 to 2 amongst us about his place - this series has to be his final chance. But then, he already seems to have had plenty of those!
Posted by whatawicket on (June 30, 2012, 13:43 GMT)perhaps resting guys from test/odis/T20 is for fatigue only. if you are rested to stop you getting injured then i find that a hard thing to foretell. the amount of cricket england are playing during this summer is less then past summers especial as rain has intervened quite abit of it to date. its quite strange for a guy to be injured been that he was rested for the last test v WI. i would think the JA out for this small series and as daft as it sounds could miss the start of the saffers tests. lets from now on just play our normal 6/7 tests 8/9 odis and 3/4 T20 against teams who are here to play all versions of cricket against the 2 away sides and not a side whos been wedged in for 5 mean less odis. how daft does it make you look and sound if say we get another 2 bowlers injured in the next 4 odis
Posted by Guernica on (June 30, 2012, 13:03 GMT)Well it looks like Dernbach is the only other 'quick' bowler in initial the squad so unfortunately he would be first choice replacement. Maybe he needs to have a few more bad games before he gets dropped. Agree with many that Woakes and Onions should be in there ahead of him, as should Tremlett when he's fit again. Woakes can be expensive and isn't the quickest but he always seems to take wickets, which is the best way of restricting the scoring.
Posted by The_bowlers_Holding on (June 30, 2012, 11:52 GMT)Onions is the obvious like for like replacement but I would like to see Woakes back he neve really did much wrong before and is an explosive batsman down the order. Similarily I would give JB the gloves, Keiswetter is not opening any more so is less effective whearas JB is another potential Morgan with the bat . I do not understand any doubt over Trott his ave is 50 with a strike rate of 76, sure he is slow to start but speeds up in the latter part of his innings. And please lets not all start boasting of our superiority and impending 5:0 win that is not likely and so colonial ;-)