The dead third T20 match was England's lamest display of the three, losing by 84 runs.
No Lumb, no fight, no common sense - I'm sorry to say it but, you have to question Stuart Broad's leadership credentials, especially after Jade Dernbach's sledging in the second match - JD's next International ought never happen again ................. we will see.
England's T20 squad in need for new blood?
after a severe thumping
England won the toss at Melbourne and batted with the same eleven as Hobart apart from Tredwell in for Briggs - deckchairs on the Titanic? And so it turned out to be.
Careless run outs and tight Australian fielding restricted England to 130/9 - clearly inadequate at most grounds around the world, even Wantage Road; in reply Australia as soon George Bailey came to the wicket, 2 down, hurried Australia to an emphatic win, Jade Dernbach taking some harsh punishment for his mixed menu of dross bowling, the 60K+ crowd being short changed by more than 5 overs.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2013-14/engine/current/match/636165.html?CMP=chrome
Australia White out of sight
Why no Stokes? The one and only (nearly) English success story of the shambolic winter tour wasn't selected for the first T20 shoot-out on a Tasmanian Postage Stamp of a ground.Australia won the toss and batting first and showed, yet again, that England are clueless bowling to Aaron Finch and his guest opener for today, Cameron White. The first Australian wicket fell in the eleventh over, platform already set.
End result, Australia posted 213 runs and England were forever playing catch-up, thereafter.
Lumb and Hales had the scoring rate but fell too soon as did much of the top end batters and only because Ravi Bopara plundered runs in a lost cause, late on, did England get to 200.
In the context of the game, Stuart Broad's 4-0-25-1 was a good shift for him personally.
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