Shane Watson believes picking early wickets key against England – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558, the Australian all-rounder, has admitted that England have a very fine bowling attack but thinks that their batting can be exposed if the top-order fails to deliver the goods upfront.
England and Australia will take on each other tomorrow in the first of the five-match One Day International (ODI) series at the Lord’s.
It is expected to be a fascinating battle as both the teams have been doing brilliantly in the 50-overs format recently. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 and West Indies over the last 12 months.
Arguably, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 make life very easy for their skipper, Alastair
Cook, who does not have to worry too much about a sixth bowler.
The Aussie vice-captain praised the home team’s bowling quality but thinks that playing five out and out bowlers mean that that the batting-strength suffers. This is the reason why Watson feels that picking up early wickets will be
crucial for the Kangaroos.
"For England to be able to go in with four frontline quick bowlers is a very good thing for them against our batting line-up, but if we're able to make inroads into their batting line-up early it means they might be one batsman short,"
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326.
One of the world’s best all-rounders also praised the recent performances of the English top-order batsmen and knows that the Australian bowlers have a very tough task at their hands to tie down the likes of Cook and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597, as
both of them looked in great touch in the recently concluded series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760.
He added, "That's been one of England's strengths over the last period of time with their batting, being able to score heavily in the top three really, so we know if we're able to make inroads it might expose a part of the English
team that hasn't really been exposed over the last little while as well."
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