I never saw this coming at the start of the series! A great achievement and with a young team which could be around for quite a few years, Anderson being probably the oldest ? I am flabbergasted by the way that the Aussies have collapsed time and time again and the best thing is that it has been a different bowler each innings. That is really encouraging. Well done all. Answering Cromer, while I share your delight with the Ashes, losing to Palace would ruin my day I am afraid. Events are CR are always the most important to me.
Girls start 4 day Test today at Canterbury Would be good to see them win,but Aussie Girls have a very good team.
England keep the same side that won at Trent Bridge, so no Jimmy Anderson and - more surprisingly from the selectors point of view, no Adil Rashid. It's fine being "in and around" the squad, but surely the next step is to get selected to be 'in and around the starting eleven'? Having said that, no way we'll need two spinners, Moeen has done nothing wrong to deserve to be dropped - even as an 'experiment' and finally, I can understand the reluctance to change a winning team. Maybe when Ranieri has finished at Leicester, he could be in charge - at least we'd see some changes
In a way I am pleased that the decision to put Australia in this morning has backfired because it was almost too easy to do that after Trent Bridge and it might make Cook think a little bit more in the future. I appreciate that literally everything went right in Nottingham and one could not expect a repeat of that scenario, but it woudl have been good to have had a bat on what is generally regarded as one of the best batting tracks on the circuit. We are now probably going to bat fourth on a turning pitch which is not such an enticing prospect.
What a totally strange series. Not one match making it to a fifth day, and every game massively one sided. Win the toss, put your opponents in and lose by an innings. That doesn't happen very often. But at least we didn't bat fourth Thurnby.
Slightly OT but I see BTsport have now added the Ashes to their portfolio having outbid Sky. At this rate the only thing Sky will have left is the Premier League and with BT's mega billions there's a good chance they will get the lion's share of that next time around.
I did like this headline on it though:http://newsthump.com/2015/08/24/eng...-next-ashes-hammering-will-be-seen-by-no-one/
To be honest GE, a pretty disappointing series from many perpsectives. Yes it was exciting but it had not got the gravitas that to me a test match sould have. By that I don't mean every game but to have 5 x 2 or 3 dayers was a bit lightweight. Only Cook from our side ever wanted to dig in, some of the others got lucky every third or fourth knock. To me, England will get battered by South Africa, we are a long way from being a quality side.
Not Ashes but cricket. Tom Curran, playing today for Surrey, has a man-bun. I'm sorry, my dear old thing, but that's preposterous!!
Good win last night. Taylor is a player who is worth a Test place IMO. Some excellent catching,especially Roy. Can we still win the series?
