Ashes Predictions Thread

[andyc]

Surprised one of these doesn't exist already. Ripping the criteria from the Aus-SA series:

Series Result:
Top Eng Runscorer:
Top Aus Runscorer:
Top Eng Wicket-taker:
Top Aus Wicket-taker:
Player of the Series:
Surprise Packet:
Dropped Player(s):
Miscellaneous Event:


Personally, going something like:

Series Result: Australia 2-0
Top Eng Run scorer: Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Hughes
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Swann
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Siddle
Player of the Series: Johnson
Surprise Packet: Broad and Swann
Dropped Player(s): Sidebottom and Monty (if they play) for England, Lee for Australia
Miscellaneous Event: Michael Hussey to find form again, Monty won't play more than one Test, and Lee will play his last Test for Australia

 

[pasag]

Series Result: Aus 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Bopara
Top Aus Runscorer: Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Katich
Surprise Packet: Anderson (for general Australians who haven't seen him since 06/07)
Dropped Player(s): North/McDonald
Miscellaneous Event: Three Tests will have an Australian centurion in them, two won't.

 

[inbox24]

Series Result: Eng 2-0
Top Eng Runscorer: Bopara
Top Aus Runscorer: Haddin
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Siddle
Player of the Series: Bopara
Surprise Packet: Prior
Dropped Player(s): -
Miscellaneous Event: England will declare themselves world champions upon victory

 

[jondavluc]

5-0 Aus
Top Eng Runscorer: Ian Bell
Top Aus Runscorer: Micheal Hussey
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Graham Swann
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Ben Hilfenhaus
Player of the Series: Ben Hilfenhaus
Surprise Packet: Nathan Hauritz
Dropped Player(s): North
Miscellaneous Event: Ravi after being Called the new Don by many English Journalists he gets out for 3 ducks in a row and gets dropped.

 

[GIMH]

Series Result: 2-1 England
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Anderson
Surprise Packet: Broad (I won't be surprised myself though)
Dropped Player(s): Lee
Miscellaneous Event: CW will run slowly throughout the series because of the amount of murray mint pics posted by Burgey

 

[morgieb]

Series Result: Australia 3-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Pieterson (if fit, if not Cook)
Top Aus Runscorer: Hughes
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Hughes
Surprise Packet: Lee getting back into form
Dropped Player(s): Bopara, Prior, Panesar, etc.
Miscellaneous Event: England getting raped in the first 3 games before Australia slow down. Australia showing that their T20 form was just a blip on the radar. England to get ****y in the media after "below average warm-up". More to come when I CBF thinking about it.

 

[irfan]

Series Result: Australia 4-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: M Hussey
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Siddle
Player of the Series: M Hussey
Surprise Packet: Marcus North at 6
Dropped Player(s): England's third seamer (Onions?)
Miscellaneous Event: Ponting hit on the other cheek by a Stuart Broad bouncer

 

[King Pietersen]

Series Result: 6-0 to England
Top Eng Runscorer: Kevin Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Simon Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Stuart Broad
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Peter Siddle
Player of the Series: Stuart Broad
Surprise Packet: Stuart Broad
Dropped Player(s): Brett Lee
Miscellaneous Event: Ponting run out at least once every Test by a substitute fielder

 

[Athlai]

Series Result: Aus 4-0
Top Eng Runscorer: Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Hughes
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker:Johnson
Player of the Series: Johnson
Surprise Packet: Swann
Dropped Player(s): Monty
Miscellaneous Event: Hughes to continue averaging above 60 by the end of the series.

 

[Simon]

Series Result: Australia 3-0
Top Eng Runscorer: Andrew Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Simon Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Andrew Flintoff
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Mitchell Johnson
Player of the Series: Simon Katich
Surprise Packet: Mike Hussey (Will return to form in a big way - seems to be a bit forgotten)
Dropped Player(s): Australia will use at least 5 different quicks in the series so take your pick
Miscellaneous Event: Flintoff will score a run a ball century at some stage

 

[Richard]

Series Result: Australian comfortable victory. Weather too unpredictable to go for an exact scoreline.
Top Eng Runscorer: KP Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Brad Haddin
Top Eng Wicket-taker: James Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Mitchell Johnson
Player of the Series:
Surprise Packet: Brad Haddin
Dropped Player(s): if MSP, Lee and Onions play any Tests as first-choice (which is possible to near-certain) then I can quite see 'em being dropped. Also find it conceivable though not out-and-out likely that Prior and Cook might go.
Miscellaneous Event (AKA random wildcard): two cases of on-a-hat-trick with a hat-trick resulting in neither.

 

[Richard]

Miscellaneous Event: CW will run slowly throughout the series because of the amount of murray mint pics posted by Burgey

So obvious it barely needs predicting, for my money.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Series Result: England 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Ponting
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Broad
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Clark
Player of the Series: Broad
Surprise Package (Packet? wtf): Strauss
Dropped Player(s): Lee/Siddle
Miscellaneous Event: The Ashes Test thieving Welsh will stage a dire low quality match

 

[PhoenixFire]

Series Result: Aus 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Ponting
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Johnson
Surprise Packet: Rashid
Dropped Player(s): Clarke
Miscellaneous Event: A bird doing a **** in Sidebottom's hair.

 

[GIMH]

at the last two miscellaneous tips

So hyped for the Ashes. Thank God we're done with this **** micky mouse cricket and can get down to business

 

[Burgey]

Series Result: Aus 3-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Clarke
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Clarke
Surprise Packet: Hughes
Dropped Player(s): Cook, Bopara, Prior, Broad, Swann, Sidebottom, Onions, Panesar.
Miscellaneous Event: Anderson takes England's only 5 for in the dead rubber test they win at The Oval, and as he celebrates a packet of mints falls out of his pocket, thereby both explaining this freak event and causing him to be banned for 12 months.

 

[Richard]

Good job no bans are possible for eating sweets.

 

[Burgey]

Good job no bans are possible for eating sweets.

He gets banned for his ****house haircut. They should ban lots of blokes for 'em.

 

[GIMH]

Dropped Player(s): Cook, Bopara, Prior, Broad, Swann, Sidebottom, Onions, Panesar.
.

who the hell will we have left?

 

[Adamc]

Series Result: Australia 2 - 0
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Hussey
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Sidebottom
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Hussey
Surprise Package: Hussey
Dropped Player(s): Lee
Miscellaneous Event: Australia win a tense Third Test by one wicket thanks to an unbeaten Mike Hussey century in which he is dropped eleven times. The Fourth Test is abandoned after Richard digs up the pitch and burns his First Chance Average manifesto into the grass. He is subsequently thrown off the Lord's balcony but survives after being caught by Geoffrey Boycott's grandmother.