Will be at the first ODI in Sydney today with two more in Brisbane and Melbourne. Once again selectors love a surprise selection just for the sake of it with Carey to open. Siddle to play his first ODI in 8 years and Maxwell selected rather low at 7

Australia win the toss and bat. Probably only thing they’re winning today

What sort of daggy pyjamas are Oz wearing.  I recall Steve Waugh wearing that design. What happened to the all green pyjamas. Please have someone design something approaching trendy for the WC. 

Why. Are you a glutton for punishment? A bunch of Test rejects, a very long tail, no Zampa, a veteran with a pitiful ODI record  leading the attack. We will be lucky to post 250.

australia have somehow gotten pretty bad at ODIs

one of our genuinely world class odi players is finch

I worried that selecting him for test would wreck his odi confidence

early signs seem to show that

we are soooo bad at odi all of a sudden

Our side is seriously unbalanced too

Its the sort of side you select if you think 250 is still a par score

I just can't get over the lack of urgency from the ozzies here

31 overs, 3/150.....Hmm, I can't help but think India is No 2 in ODI's, Australia is No 6, if we do post a good total with "test rejects" and we happen to win, would that be the final nail in the coffin for our "world class test bowling line up"??????????? Richardson and Behrendorff, young, talented, it will be a good test for them, I'm looking forward to the bowling. A lot of questions may be answered. Remember Australia V England last year with Hazlewood, Starc and Cummins, were humiliated 4-1. It will be interesting

there is nothing world class about our odi bowling lineup
...or batting line up
or tactics
or selections

our lack of evolution in 20-20 tactics has meant we haven't kept up with the evolution of odi

class shot

with shots like that this side could win the world cup in 2004....

Change that to 280.

broken record.

khawaja reckons its a 280 pitch

we'll see I guess but these days 325 is par on a good batting wicket 

well according to khawaja we are 8 runs ahead of the game

I reckon we are 30 behind

we'll see I guess

I want Handscomb for the WC. Always maintained it is his best format. Khawaja as well as he brings composure. 

Agree 30 runs short. Khawaja and Marsh made meaningful scores but a touch too patient.

where can we get all oz players list a records for the past month

Handscombs list a record is impressive actually

Mitch Marsh 37.3/92.9
David Warner 42.61/98.14
Aaron Finch 38.22/88.39
Steve Smith 45.44/87.21
Handscomb 36.43/86.95
James Faulkner 30.25/91.45
Darcy Short 44.50/112.94
Travis head 36.02/92.9
Glen Maxwell 33.1/119.85
Stoinis 35.53/87.12
Khawaja 45.76/86.26
Lynn 36.29/96.55
S Marsh 43.68/80.51

Based on that I'd pick
Warner
Short
Smith
Lynn
Maxwell
M Marsh
Stoinis/Faulkner (prefer Faulkner)
Wicket keeper? (say wade who's the best batsmen)
Starc
Zampa
lyon

A side that can go hard for 50 overs averaging about 7/307 including extras. Not world beaters but gives us a shot at defending our title

Carey is also on my list. He just keep getting better and is proving a good leader too.

Cricinfo should have 2018/19 list A records JLT CUP.

this bowling partnership looks decent

3-4. Could have found our WC opening attack.

That 6 ..inconclusive!

Behrendorff is not young but has a very good FC record. However he has not played FC for over a year.

Lyon is getting India back into this. There is a reason he has rarely played ODIs.

Doubt he and Coulter-Nile will again. Too many stress injuries.

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Lyon, Siddle wicketless. Siddle was.. picked up Kuldeep off his last ball. 

 Short and Lynn are liabilities as CA are finding out. Musts for our T20 side.

Warner
Finch/Carey
Khawaja
Smith
Carey/Finch
Handscomb
M Marsh. 
J Richardson
Starc
Zampa
Hazlewood

 
Cummins/Maxwell/Faulkner/Stoinis/ Behrendorff. are in the mix.

Turned into a great win. At 3/4 thought it was going to be easy but you also had two of the best one day batsmen ever at the crease so thought theyd make it tough and they got close. Got lucky with Dhoni given LBW off one that pitched outside the line