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The Ashes 2009

Let's just hope that England can keep a steady team for the next Ashes series. It would be a shame to lose players like we did last time, ie Vaughan and Tresco.
 
Well done England. Brilliant performance in this match in particular. Really didn't think they would do it, but players like Broad and Anderson have really stood up and proved that they are test class players.
 
Swann as usual good value in his interview.

Fred out of ODIs and Champions' Trophy. 9-12 months according to Botham.
 
Those test rankings are fairly meaningless. Especially as the side now in 4th convincingly beat the side now at 1st not that long ago.
 
But never mind .... well done boys, dominated them in two matches and played well enough in one other to deserve the urn. Let's have a bit of a celebration, but let's not have the parade and big presentations to the fucking queen as if we'd won the World Cup. The key thing now is to be able to go to Australia and retain the little brown thing ....
 
aylee said:
But never mind .... well done boys, dominated them in two matches and played well enough in one other to deserve the urn. Let's have a bit of a celebration, but let's not have the parade and big presentations to the fucking queen as if we'd won the World Cup. The key thing now is to be able to go to Australia and retain the little brown thing ....
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This ^^

It was cringeworthy last time and only served to wind the Aussies up further in 2006/07. A hearty celebration then concentrate on winning a series in SA in the winter.

Next Ashes only 18 months away - dont want this one to mirror the last.

All that said - WELL DONE ENGLAND.

Have watched huge amounts of this series and enhjoyed most of it, despite it not being of the quality of some series of the past. Have still enjoyed it, as i'm sure most fans have and loved it when Swanny took Mr Cricket's wkt late this afternoon:cool::cool:
 
as a side note, is it time they started rotating the toss? first team wins the toss then it alternates every match for the rest of the series.
 
well winning the toss 4 times means i couldn't care that much about it. but the toss has so much effect on the final result that im not if england would have won, had the tosses been equal this series.
 
strung_out said:
as a side note, is it time they started rotating the toss? first team wins the toss then it alternates every match for the rest of the series.
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strung_out said:
well winning the toss 4 times means i couldn't care that much about it. but the toss has so much effect on the final result that im not if england would have won, had the tosses been equal this series.
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The thing is, if you KNOW you're going to 'win' the toss in matches 2 and 4, say, you can prepare the pitch and select your team accordingly. And that's just not, well, cricket.
 
Also, we won the toss in the first test and almost lost the match, but our character/spirit pulled us through which was what helped us win the series imo.
 
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