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Day 1 - Australia bats for 18 overs, the English bowlers move the ball beautifully and edges fly to the slips - Australia all out for 60.

Day 2 - Australia bats for 18 overs, the English bowlers move the ball beautifully and edges fly to the slips - Australia none for 90!!!!!

Day 1 - Aussie batting collapse :wink2:

Day 2 - Aussie batting collapse {sm2}

Day 3 - Aussie batting collapse ^&grin

I see Extras played well again. Maybe he could be captain as there may be a vacancy ^&grin^&grin^&grin
 
Well done England! ! Such a well earned victory , Ashes home again!Lots of good performances throughout but Broad's performance of 8 - 15 the other day has already passed into legend :salute::

Rob
 
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Good sportsmanship from Australian capt Michael Clarke.
 
And at the other end of the scale i give you Steve Smith , whose quote is now the subject of some hilarity over here :
' England won't come near us in the Ashes ' .And I thought Geoff Boycott comes out with some corkers!^&grin

On a more serious note , people calling for some Australian players to go
but is it that thats needed or more experience with pitches that move and swing the ball? If you're used to flat hard pitches under vlazing sun you wont be used to conditions such as experienced in this series.

Rob
 
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As far as Test Cricket goes though the Ashes have been poor with so many games finishing in 2-3 days. The batting has been awful.

At least the Aussies can console themselves that they beat the All Blacks today ^&grin
 
It is never fun to lose a series as important as this but there are bigger concerns for Australian cricket than one really poor series. There is a lot of talk about a clear out of older players but a list of young batting hopefuls in Australia makes for some rather sad reading. There is a lot of talk about their potential but not a lot of talk about three strong years in first class cricket with ten good centuries under their belt. Normally after a defeat like this we can amuse ourselves with a criticism of the stupid selectors who failed to take our best team. The fans from the 'outer states' (everyone not a New South Welshman or Victorian) can then name their favourite son who is not getting a fair deal from the selectors. It is not so much that England beat us, bad though that is. They beat what are essentially our best players. That is what concerns me the most. It seems certain that Shaun Marsh and Shane Watson are done and dusted even if they play the fifth Test but they are there because there is no-one perceived as their equal or better. Bad times ahead I fear.
 
Finally - after the 3rd and 4th test debacles - some sensible Australian batting!
 
I am sorry but something is not right with this series
One of the teams seem to collapse
England are on line for a hiding of epic proportions by the same team they comprehensively beat two weeks ago
Really odd
 
Do agree with Damian here , we are all used to changes of fortune in the Ashes but swings in form are indeed bizarre in this series . Australia playing superbly in this last one while we look like we didnt bother turning up!.
Rob
 
Good to see an Australian win looming but in a strange way it might not be beneficial. There was talk years ago that the now legendary Botham heroics prevented a real assessment of the state of English cricket. The same occurred with the Windies where their decline began years before it became readily apparent but their bowlers masked how weak their batting had become. Perhaps a thrashing might have been better for us in the long run. I even found myself saying the other day that 'had Haddin caught Root in the first Test we might have won 4-1'. Too easy to reduce it to a few bad sessions and one or two mistakes. Reading our papers now it would appear that some of the issues had been building for years.
 
A bizarre and unsatisfying series. England were convincing winners - except for those two games they lost massively. I thought Clarke captained very well, yet he couldn't buy a score. Cook - the winner, only made two scores - both in the lost causes. The best opening partnership for England was only 32! Only one English player got to 100.

Maybe the green-tops were the reason for the wins but what about the lost revenue of games finishing on the third day? TV stations would've been pretty peeved as well. Not to mention people who travelled to those games.

Australia were over-confident and made some bad selections - obvious in hind-sight - Haddin should never have been there. Siddle should've played in place of the broken Harris from the start. Starc is frustratingly erratic and Johnson's not at his best when the rest are off kilter. I'm not quite sure how we bowled ourselves to those two big wins?

Also, how were there three series in 2 years? It's all been a bit crazy....
 
An old thread, that's time has come again.

Today was a nice even contest despite the rain messing things up. Good to see after the disappointing first three tests. I struggle to understand how English cricket can't produce better players. Each of the counties must have a spinner - how can Leach be the best?
 

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