How England Won the Ashes in Australia - 2010/11

[Beardy10]

FourWheelDrift said:

suthol said:

Looking to the future out of the team in the 5th test I keep, Watson, Siddle, Kawaja ( sp ), Haddin (c), Smith and probably Beer he did bowl a lot of dry balls before getting flogged late in the day and has potential.

Bollinger, Harris and Katich need to come back, still need to find two quality bats Maddinson may prove to be one of those but would likely replace Katich so still holes to fill.

Only one extra batsman for the first 11, you forgot Hussey.

Hauritz instead of Beer.

They need to play Watson in the middle order in my opinion, he's a good player but I reckon he's a much better 5 or 6. His conversion rate is not good enough for an opener. No way will they drop Ponting and Clarke together. Kawaja has got the potential but he gets horribly squared up outside off stump.....if he doesn't sort that out he'll never make a test batsmen. Can't say I really see much in Smith or Beer to be honest...neither have really impressed me....Smith made runs in Sydney when the game was lost. He's a bit and pieces player...not test class with either bat or ball....a formula England tried on so many occasions searching for the new Botham and never once did it work.

With all that though you still don't have an attack that will take twenty wickets with any regularity. Beer, Bollinger, Harris and Siddle is not the foundation of an attack that will move the Aussie side on.

[DJC]

Harris and Siddle are test class, but the feeling persists with Harris that he will be an Aussie Simon Jones.
Johnson is a test bowler, but he needs to learn control. Hauritz should be a standard fixture in the Aussie side, not to take wickets a la Warne, but just to hold an end down.

[Beardy10]

DJC said:

Harris and Siddle are test class, but the feeling persists with Harris that he will be an Aussie Simon Jones.
Johnson is a test bowler, but he needs to learn control. Hauritz should be a standard fixture in the Aussie side, not to take wickets a la Warne, but just to hold an end down.

I thought Harris looked the class bowler for Australia....but he's 31 and injury prone. Mitchell Johnson can be as dangerous as anyone (he was unbelievable in SA two years ago) but he's 29 so he ain't changing his action IMHO....I think the fact he moved from his native Queensland to play at the WACA tells you a lot.

Australia definitely need to formulate a game plan around their abilities......as you say a spinner can be a key part of an attack even if not one that threatens wickets. England certainly weren't shy of using Giles bowling over the wicket at RH bats.

[Andy Zarse]

suthol said:

F i F said:

New theory: apparently it's all down to the weather, La Nina causes interruptions to the warm dry weather that is the only weather the crims bowlers can perform in and England bowlers are used to.

Take a look at the article in today's Daily Telegraph.

You couldn't make it up.

I pretty much read the print off the DT every day and missed that one, you must have got the one that was for pommie consumption ( much like Fosters ).

You seemed to have missed this article from the Australian DT, published before the first match started. A bigger load of drivel I have seldon read, and it was certainly written for an Aussie audience...

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/cricket/rea...

[anonymous-user]

Bell 100, well done!

Oops wrong series!

Edited by el stovey on Sunday 31st July 14:32

[Gargamel]

el stovey said:

Bell 100, well done!

Oops wrong series!

Edited by el stovey on Sunday 31st July 14:32

Don't remind the aussies, they are still bitter