After the sobering defeat at Perth, normal service was resumed in the Boxing Day test match at the MCG. England beat Australia comprehensively just like they did in the 2nd test at Adelaide. Andrew Strauss will go down in history as one of England’s all time greatest captains after skippering the side to a successful Ashes defence in Australia.
England has an embarrassment of riches in the bowling department at present. The performances of Tremlett and Bresnan when called upon are testimony to that fact. Australia could be forgiven for casting envious glances towards the English second string.
Australia’s inability to select their strongest team has not done them many favours but that is not an English problem. Furthermore, it probably would not have changed the outcome of the series anyway. After being whitewashed 5-0 on the last trip, it is hard to get too sympathetic about their current plight.
Now that The Ashes have been retained, it would round things off nicely if England can win the final test and the series by a 3-1 score line. That scenario is more likely given that Ricky Ponting will be absent due to his broken finger.
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Retaining Ashes was a big challenge, but the English team did good - the question is - was it because of Australian bad performance of English good performance, I'd say both, Australian team are not performing at their old standards and English team are improving greatly
England were very impressive in the test matches. We not want a repeat of 2005 when they got a bit sloppy for a while afterwards.
The series against India will be very interesting and should be good motivation for the players.
Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to be dismissed (run out) by using the television replays by the third umpire, Jonty Rhodes was the fielder. Next day,in the same test match,Jonty Rhodes was given run out by the umpire.This time the fielder was none other than Sachin Tendulkar..Get latest update on cricket world cup on my blog
I remember Jonty Rhodes well. He was a brilliant fielder.
I watched the 4th test match between Australia and England. It was disappointed. I am the big fan of Australian Cricket
In 1868, when Australia first toured England under Charles Lawrence to play cricket, each player was wearing a different coloured cap so that the the spectators could identify them.
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Great to read back on the Ashes triumph. Looking forward to this summer's meeting with India - let's hope that England can do themselves justice really.
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