Ashes Predictions Thread

[rivera213]

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

Nice thread, I didn't see this first time around.

For me:

Result: 2-1 England (wouldn't be a pom otherwise. Lol)
Eng Runs: Pietersen
Aus Runs: Hussey
Eng WK: Anderson
Aus WK: Johnson
P.O.S: Pietersen and the series to be called "Pietersen's Ashes" (originality at it's peak).
Surprise Packet: Bopara
Drops: Lee, Hilfenhaus, Prior (literally! Ha ha)
Misc Event: Hughes to be hit on the head from Broad, Ponting to take a stunning catch to get rid of KP on 99.

 

[biased indian]

Series Result: 2-2
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Swann
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Johnson
Surprise Packet: Bopara
Dropped Player(s): Hussey & prior
Miscellaneous Event: Ponting & Pietersen fails to score centuries

 

[zaremba]

Series Result: Aus 2 Eng 0
Top Eng Runscorer: Prior
Top Aus Runscorer: Clarke
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Siddle
Player of the Series: Siddle (Aus) Prior (Eng) - if you have to choose 1, Siddle
Surprise Packet: Siddle, Prior
Dropped Player(s): Lee, Sidebottom, Panesar. Rashid
Miscellaneous Event: Haddin takes his first Test wicket in the closing stages of a tedious draw on a road at Lord's.

 

[superkingdave]

Series Result: Aus 3 Eng 0
Top Eng Runscorer: KP
Top Aus Runscorer: Ponting
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Ponting
Surprise Packet: None
Dropped Player(s): Most of the Autralian side, mainly by Matt Prior
Miscellaneous Event: Ricky Ponting to become the official spokesperson of the Leicester Tourist Board

 

[NUFAN]

Series Result: 3-1 Australia
Top Eng Runscorer: Paul Collingwood
Top Aus Runscorer: Michael Hussey
Top Eng Wicket-taker: James Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Mitchell Johnson
Player of the Series: Mitchell Johnson
Surprise Packet: Fantastic umpiring
Dropped Player(s): Alastair Cook
Miscellaneous Event: Shane Warne and John Buchanan make a guest appearance on UK Big Brother together.

 

[Jamee999]

Series Result: 3-1 Australia
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: Anderson
Dropped Player(s): Panesar, Siddle
Miscellaneous Event: England will win a live test.

 

[simmy]

Series Result: Eng 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Bopara
Top Aus Runscorer: Ponting
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Anderson
Surprise Packet: Swann
Dropped Player(s): Lee, Collingwood
Miscellaneous Event: Gary Pratt will make a rogue appearance as a sub-fielder. KP takes a 5 for. Hughes scores ton at Cardiff. Vaughan employed by ECB as a "tactical mastermind" for the last test with the scores at 1-1. Ponting resigns as skipper.

 

[pasag]

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.

If we win the series I doubt any batsmen would have been dropped on the way, certainly not Clarke who has been great over the past couple of years (and who is undroppable).

 

[Furball]

Series Result: 3-1 Australia
Top Eng Runscorer: Alastair Cook
Top Aus Runscorer: Michael Hussey
Top Eng Wicket-taker: James Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Stuart Clark
Player of the Series: Mitchell Johnson
Surprise Packet: Ian Bell
Dropped Player(s): Matt Prior, Paul Collingwood, Brett Lee
Miscellaneous Event: Ryan Sidebottom will fail to register a delivery above 86mph during the series

 

[four_or_six]

Series Result: England 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Johnson
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Broad
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Katich
Player of the Series: Broad
Surprise Packet: Collingwood
Dropped Player(s): Clark.
Miscellaneous Event: Watson to score first hundred.

 

[Richard]

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.

ITSTL.
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[Burgey]

who the hell will we have left?

Paul Jarvis for a surprise recall.

 

[Richard]

He's too crocked. So is Alan Igglesden.

Paul Taylor FTW.

 

[zaremba]

I was going to say Chris Lewis, but these days he wears his box to the rear.

 

[rivera213]

I was going to say Chris Lewis, but these days he wears his box to the rear.

Nasty.

 

[Top_Cat]

I was going to say Chris Lewis, but these days he wears his box to the rear.

zaremba = most quotable member of CW today.

Top shelf.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Series Result: 2-1 Oz
Top Eng Runscorer: Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Hughes
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Flintoff
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Hughes
Surprise Packet: Broad. Will take at least one 5-for and score 2 half-centuries.
Dropped Player(s): Lee, Sidebottom, Hauritz
Miscellaneous Events: Pietersen will continue the wounded prima donna act throughout, Hauritz will take wickets at Cardiff but get destroyed on less responsive tracks, Sid's back and weight will plague him, Watson will be injured & the distance between Prior's batting and keeping skills will become so great as to threaten the space/time continuum.

 

[cowboysfan]

England to buck their recent trend and win the 1st test but lose the the ashes.

 

[rivera213]

& the distance between Prior's batting and keeping skills will become so great as to threaten the space/time continuum.

* Can't completely rule it out. Get Hawking on the phone!

 

[inbox24]

Cardiff will be an English victory, Matt Priapism to score his first test century against Australia.