Haha, right on cue, here I am.
to the whole of Australia. 
Yeah I agree as well when consider what happened in Brisbane where New Zealand blew it, they looked the only side who could match Australia.
Haha, wow. If someone told me after 2005 that England would get whiteashed in the tests and then come back and win the ODI series, I would've slapped you with a fish.
Great win by England. Kudos to them!
Paul Nixon. Is he really a domestic cricketer in England, or some homeless guy they picked up off the streets? I mean, his face looks like he's been abusing substances for a while and he constantly talks like a crazy homeless person.
Maybe Australia's next keeper isn't Haddin or Ronchi or whoever. maybe it's that bloke living in a cardboard box who was going to tell me the meaning of lfie if I gave him enough money for a whisky.
There's a difference between predictions and brain-dead proclamations of certainty, which as everybody should know, there is no such thing as in sport. This is just rightful mocking.
Jeez settle down. Its one day cricket, funny things do happen, and its not like Australia hasn't lost matches, or even series, in their decade of domination. The common factor is that its required an opposition player to play right out of their skin - Lara's series in the Caribbean, Laxman/Harby's series in India, and Flintoff/Simon Jones in England. We dominated in the almost all the preliminary matches and had a few bad games at the end of a long summer.
Sure, you're absolutely right about England's performance and how special their achievement to come back and beat Australia in their own backyard was - it showed a lot of character and required some very good cricket. Its hard to be too upset about the Australian performance when it was Collingwood playing some exception cricket, and possibly some rain delays, that beat us in the end.lol. I did get carried away a bit there. Expecting my British passport soon.
But seriously, it is a terrific comeback. The Lara series and Laxman/Harby series were when no one expected anything from the opponents. Australia went in as favourites, won the first tests comfortably and looked set for another dominant series win. Here, England were expected to fight hard and make a good fist of the Ashes. Flintoff was expected to continue his glory run against Australia from the last Ashes, Pieterson was expected to smash hundreds and Harmison was expected to get a lot of wickets etc. Given the hype for this series and the absolute canning that they got from the press for a better part of 3 months, for these guys to have stuck around (remember, this is the part where most sides LOSE it in Australia after playing well in the first half of the tour, simply because no one enjoys 3 months away from home, esp. having to play quality cricket day after day, which is what you have to do against Australia to even be in with a chance.), had faith in each other and themselves and find some self belief from somewhere and turn it around like this deserves more kudos than you guys seem to think.
When was the last time Australia were defeated in 3 LIVE ODIs at a stretch? When was the last time Australia lost a final? When was the last time England actually won a big ODI tournament? You are talking of an extremely inexperienced side with not many hugely talented players pulling off an ultimate coup here. I am sure Australia took their foot off a bit and I am sure they are starting to feel the effects of missing Martyn and Symonds but this is still a great victory and I can't believe people are underplaying it. I know this doesn't make England big contenders for the WC, some of their frailities still exist but still, this is an outstanding feat.
Only two of the ODIs were live, TBH.honestbharani said:
Still lost to what was universally agreed to be the crappest ODI team of the major countries the world, injury ravaged at that.
