If you could, because I can't believe that no side before has ever lost 5-0 and not been bowled out in all the innings. I've just realised as well, you don't need to have lost 5-0 to do it. At the opposite end of the spectrum, if you were to bat first in all 5 matches you could lose 100 wickets and win 5-0 by bowling the opposition out before they reached your target, so I can no longer be arsed to go and check every series to find one example that proves it wrong.
The malaise was there well before the winter, they gave up once they'd got the ashes over here at Manchester. Only broad and bell were really in form by the end of the summer, and they seemed to think they only had to turn up. To not manage to get one player other than stokes into form is worrying, they should have been playing tremlett and onions towards the end of the summer but it seems this winter was an after thought for them. I wouldn't say a year zero is needed as the previous few years has all been success - but something needs to be looked at.
Steyn is a quality bowler where as Johnson is all about speed Australia worked out before the series started that they always beat us in Perth on a fast bouncy wicket, so they made all their wickets similar Our players could not handle it Trott gave up after one game because he could not handle fast bowling bouncing up to his body
Steyn and Johnson, both average around the mid-140s. I agree Steyn, has been far more consistently reliable bowler than Johnson. Oh and Johnson isnt purely speed, a left handed bowling has advantages, due to there not being as many. And his ability to reverse swing at speed.
I heard somewhere that England were the first team in history to lose 5-0 and in the process, lose 100 wickets. This is possible is it not?
Col, yes the fact is correct. This Ashes series where England lost 100 wickets is a record. Ricardo's proposition is technically correct, but has never happened.
Well I'm shocked. I can't believe that until now there hadn't been an Ashes series where one side lost all their wickets. Regardless of the result I would have expected one side or other to have done it some time.
I wasn't disputing it at that point, it was an "I can't believe it" in a staggered way. How many Ashes series have there been now, and its the first time it's happened. You'd have thought even a winning team would have had it happen a few times in that time.
