England tour of SA, ODI series, Feb 3-14

[Arthur Crabtree]

SRs for England openers.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... pe=batting

[Gingerfinch]

Decent average from Athers.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Look at the names at the bottom. Boycott played ODIs for ten years. Now he gets to tell everyone how rubbish they all are.

[Gingerfinch]

Cook has a higher s/rate than Beefy. To be fair to Sir Ian, he was asked to open in his twilight years.

[Arthur Crabtree]

A few of these keepers suffered from opening. Surprising that only two England keepers have scored tons. Jos is probably already England's best ever ODI keeper/batter.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... pe=batting

[Arthur Crabtree]

Cook was ok as an opener for a while. He just stayed on for far too long after it stopped working.

[Arthur Crabtree]

I'd have thought Nick Knight scored faster than at 73.

[Gingerfinch]

A few of these keepers suffered from opening. Surprising that only two England keepers have scored tons. Jos is probably already England's best ever ODI keeper/batter.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... pe=batting

Buttler is on his way to becoming an England great in this format, if he isn't already.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Hardly any of those keepers had substantial careers.

[Gingerfinch]

Hardly any of those keepers had substantial careers.

We looked to hard to find our Gilchrist.

[Arthur Crabtree]

And then abandoned it in search of a Dhoni. Kieswetter had a go at both.

[Durhamfootman]

2-0 lead, I see

things certainly seem to be looking up

although Vaughan probably thinks England should be keeping wickets in hand for a big push in the final 10

[Durhamfootman]

Cook would probably agree

[Durhamfootman]

Flower certainly does

[Durhamfootman]

Moores is less certain, because his laptop has run out of charge