How England Won the Ashes in Australia - 2010/11

[Gargamel]

webbyst said:

K P has to play , he will give the aussie's as good as he gets & probably more verbally , just wish he'd spent a few months with Goochie & Ramps sorting his alleged left arm over batting problems ,

Really thought England missed a trick with K P going to south africa, All it needed was to get a dozen decent left arm club bowlers to bowl at him for a few days ,

Edited by webbyst on Monday 1st November 18:55

Its a classic confidence thing, when he trusted his eye the footwork against the lefties never bothered him. Since the runfest came to an end, he has started having "coaching" on his technique.
I hope he gets back into the groove, last time round in AUS he was our top scorer and averaged 44 per knock for the series .... pundits still reckoned he had a bad series !

KP can't win, if he hits 85 and top scores in the innings, then he should have made 150, if he hangs in there makes a 70 ball 20 playing "responsible cricket" he eventually goes to a left arm because its not his natural game.

Need Cook, Strauss and Trott to play at least 30 overs before KP gets shown a ball

[chimster]

I for one will just be pleased if he starts scoring more fluently, regardless of how many. He will come good and he will score runs in Aus. he just needs to get some runs under his belt and he will be off. He is a confidence player and he needs his feet moving properly. He will be fine. Lets get the thing started.

[Gargamel]

Fri Nov 5 - Sun Nov 7
Western Australia v England XI
Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth S

Thu Nov 11 - Sat Nov 13
South Australia v England XI
Adelaide Oval

Wed Nov 17 - Sat Nov 20
Australia A v England XI
Bellerive Oval, Hobart

Thu Nov 25 - Mon Nov 29
1st Test - Australia v England
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane

Fri Dec 3 - Tue Dec 7
2nd Test - Australia v England
Adelaide Oval

Fri Dec 10 - Sun Dec 12
Victoria v England XI
Melbourne Cricket Ground

Thu Dec 16 - Mon Dec 20
3rd Test - Australia v England
Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth

Sun Dec 26 - Thu Dec 30
4th Test - Australia v England
Melbourne Cricket Ground

Mon Jan 3 - Fri Jan 7
5th Test - Australia v England
Sydney Cricket Ground

Mon Jan 10
Prime Minister's XI v England XI
Manuka Oval, Canberra

Wed Jan 12
T20I - Australia v England
Adelaide Oval

Fri Jan 14
2nd T20I - Australia v England
Melbourne Cricket Ground

Sun Jan 16
1st ODI - Australia v England
Melbourne Cricket Ground

Fri Jan 21
2nd ODI - Australia v England
Bellerive Oval, Hobart

Sun Jan 23
3rd ODI - Australia v England
Sydney Cricket Ground
N/A

Wed Jan 26
4th ODI - Australia v England
Adelaide Oval

Sun Jan 30
5th ODI - Australia v England
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane

Wed Feb 2
6th ODI - Australia v England
Sydney Cricket Ground

Sun Feb 6
7th ODI - Australia v England
Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth




That is a long tour....

[chimster]

2 wks later it's the World Cup! :-)

[spikeyhead]

chimster said:

2 wks later it's the World Cup! :-)

At least we won't be going into that undercooked!

[chimster]

spikeyhead said:

chimster said:

2 wks later it's the World Cup! :-)

At least we won't be going into that undercooked!

Nah just shagged out!

[Victor McDade]

The Aussies preparation for the Ashes continue.

After being whitewashed by India they're now throwing away the first odi against Sri Lanka after being in a great position.

It's now all set up for Murali to come in and pull a winning four with a bent arm

[Victor McDade]

haha Murali did indeed hit the winning 4. Great game to watch.

[Gargamel]

6th straight defeat for the Aussies in all formats - building momentum nicely for the Ashes

[captainzep]

Anyone else feel this (SL) result is quite significant?

Just underlines the loss of ruthlessness and greatness in the bowling attack.

Massive pressure on Johnson and Siddle to regain any psychological edge. Last thing the Aussies need is to feed the cockiness and swagger of (particularly) the English lower middle order. 200-5 thus becomes 400+ all out. -Precisely what the Aussies started to do to us from '89 onwards.

[MikeyT]

captainzep said:

Anyone else feel this (SL) result is quite significant?

Just underlines the loss of ruthlessness and greatness in the bowling attack.

Massive pressure on Johnson and Siddle to regain any psychological edge. Last thing the Aussies need is to feed the cockiness and swagger of (particularly) the English lower middle order. 200-5 thus becomes 400+ all out. -Precisely what the Aussies started to do to us from '89 onwards.

This made great viewing today on the highlights programme at 2pm ... !

Half an hour of inept betting from SL and another half an hour (one hr highlights per side) of Malingerer and Angelo Dundee smacking it to all parts off that nobhead Mitchell Johnson ... ha, couldn't happen to a nicer Aussie!

And they all get up about Siddle and Watson - these guys are just a decent medium pace ffs - especially Watson whose chin drops to his chest the first time he's carted to the boundary - it's great.

[johnfm]

Looks like we were outplayed and failed, again, to finish off a team.

We gave you the Ashes in Cardiff.

We gave India the first test like this too.

Hopefully a wake up call whihc will remind the captain (CLarke or Ponting) that when you need the last two wickets you bowl your best bowlers - rather than hope a Marcus North or Michael Clarke can winkle out a victory.

I hope this fills you lot with never before seen hubris before the series - it will make our win even sweeter.

[spikeyhead]

johnfm said:

Looks like we were outplayed and failed, again, to finish off a team.

We gave you the Ashes in Cardiff.

We gave India the first test like this too.

Hopefully a wake up call whihc will remind the captain (CLarke or Ponting) that when you need the last two wickets you bowl your best bowlers - rather than hope a Marcus North or Michael Clarke can winkle out a victory.

I hope this fills you lot with never before seen hubris before the series - it will make our win even sweeter.

Quoted for posterity

[Greenie]

johnfm said:

Looks like we were outplayed and failed, again, to finish off a team.

We gave you the Ashes in Cardiff.

We gave India the first test like this too.

Hopefully a wake up call whihc will remind the captain (CLarke or Ponting) that when you need the last two wickets you bowl your best bowlers - rather than hope a Marcus North or Michael Clarke can winkle out a victory.

I hope this fills you lot with never before seen hubris before the series - it will make our win even sweeter.

Perhaps you would like to offer some odds for the series win. Would like to have a bet but the odds are so short on an England victory it's hardly worthwhile. Not sursprising I suppose with the state your team is in.

[Gargamel]

Broad doesn't seem to mind the different ball or the hard bouncy wickets.

Nice figures, WA declared on 242-8

[chimster]

Gargamel said:

Broad doesn't seem to mind the different ball or the hard bouncy wickets.

Nice figures, WA declared on 242-8

Good effort in the field by the look of it. Shame we lost Cook though. He needs practise, needs to convince.

[Gargamel]

The Aussie go down again to Sri Lanka, oh dear, comedy fielding, Hauritz is becoming the new Ashley Giles (gets wickets with a straight one...)

Whilst I am sure they will be back, this can't be helping

[hornetrider]

Whilst it is an amusing result I don't think I will ever fully comprehend D/L

BBC Match report said:

In a rain-hit one-day international, Sri Lanka scored 213-3 in 41.1 overs leaving Australia a Duckworth-Lewis adjusted target of 244 from 39 overs.

[anonymous-user]

The SCG looked empty. Unusual for a day night IDI.

Perhaps it was the weather.

[hornetrider]

el stovey said:

The SCG looked empty. Unusual for a day night IDI.

Perhaps it was the weather.

Fair weather fans only watch when the team is winning, they were probably watching roo shearing championships or something more interesting.