Moeen hits fine 46 in England victory

184-6


Buttler Yorked !

Disjointed performance from England. They gave way far too many cheap wickets and struggled at the end to really put up a bigger score.

Morgan and Bopara again fail to score any runs. Obviously, as skipper, Morgan's place in the side is not in question but you have to wonder if England decide to go with Ballance over Ravi, especially as he doesn't seem to be trusted with the ball.

England will do well to defend 250.

As Morgan talked about previously Enlang won't be looking for big runs. Although they need to still get enough runs on the board to defend. I think Ali is a real find for them, handy with both bat and ball. I still feel though Carberry deserves a second chance and as great Bell is he is much more suited at number 4 i feel.

dillinger , what say ye ?

Pakistan won by 4 wickets (with 7 balls remaining)

I am not feeling confident going into the World Cup. England seem far too content with posting middling scores of 250, which in today's one-day cricket is just not enough runs to defend.

I am not feeling confident going into the World Cup. England seem far too content with posting middling scores of 250, which in today's one-day cricket is just not enough runs to defend.

If you were to play Hales, would you have him open the batting with Moeen and drop Bell or have him come in lower in the order an replace Ravi? I think Taylor has shown enough for him to be guaranteed a place in the team.

It really is too bad that for whatever reason it has been decided that Ravi will not feature with the ball as that is a very deep batting lineup. It has stability at the top with Bell and Root mixed with the attacking stroke play of Hales and Moeen. Morgan, Buttler and Ravi is about as an attacking middle/lower order as you can get. I'd rather see us go out attacking than look to post par scores in the hopes that we can defend them. I don't see that tactic working against the higher scoring teams in our group.