*Official* Ashes Series Thread

[Neil Pickup]

Wow!!! Yes the English team is indeed a great one! I suspect England would make an example of Aussies in the triangular cup final

Read what's there, not what you want to be there.

 

[chris.hinton]

Aussies have nothing to woory about for the next two years you players are still peking but if i was an Aussie Selector for the tour to the west Indies i would take this squad

BATSMAN

Matt Hayden,Justin Langer, Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh(Capt),Martin Love, Damien Martyn,Micheal Clarke, Marcus North,

Wicketkeepers

Adam Gilcrist, Brad Haddin

Bowlers

Glenn Mcgrath, Brett Lee, Jason Gilcrsipe, Andy Bichel, Shane Warne, Nathan Bracken, Nathan Hauritz

 

[age_master]

i would take (for OD and TEst)

S Waugh
Hayden
Langer
Ponting
Martyn
Lehmann
M Clarke
M Bevan
J Maher

Gilly
Campbell

McGrath
warne
Gillespie
Lee
Bichel
Noffke
I Harvey

 

[Langeveldt]

Typical ashes series. Total aussie domination, and then a spirited England fightback when it does not matter.
When will the ICC learn that a three test match series is the way foreward like nearly every other test series nowadays?

Why dont Zimbabwe have to go to Australia all the time to play gruelling five match series'. After all they are in the same championship as us arent they?

 

[marc71178]

Question to the Mods

Now the Ashes is over can we discuss the Under 19 series that is going on in Australia in this thread?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Yeah, why not. That and the Women, and the U19 Women...

It says "Series" which is also the plural as well as the singular

 

[marc71178]

Didn't realise the U19 Women are out there as well (but then again it seems to me that a lot of them could play for both!)

 

[chris.hinton]

the England Under 19 have lost there opening three games so far.

the score is this:-


England 331 (shafayat 108)
Australia 414(Davis 132, Plunett 4-72)

 

[Neil Pickup]

England 331 (Shafayat 108, Kelly 4-63)
Australia 414 (Davis 132, Bright 97, Plunkett 4-72)
England 366 (Edwards 97, Shafayat 66, Kelly 4-52)
#11 Thornicroft 37 off 40 and #9 Bresnan 33* off 84 put on 72 for the last wicket
Australia 269 (Bright 65, Shafayat 6-54)

England win by 14 runs

Well done England, and in particular to captain Bilal Shafayat!

 

[marc71178]

What a crucial last wicket stand that turned out to be!

 

[Bazza]

:wow: Yeah!

Shafayat has alot of potential. Watch this space! Well - not this one - what I really mean is keep an eye on Shafayat's progress.

 

[Bazza]

**** this topic now spans 72 pages - 1050 replies, 000s of views...

 

[James]

**** this topic now spans 72 pages - 1050 replies, 000s of views

Yeah! Amazing, easily the biggest thread on Cricket Web! :O

 

[Rik]

Yeah! Amazing, easily the biggest thread on Cricket Web! :O

Mostly about India vs England though :rolleyes:

 

[Bazza]

It's easily the biggest in terms of replies, but the NZ v Ind thread has well over 5000 views. :O

 

[chris.hinton]

England Under 19s have lost to Australia under 19s

But they Beat the Acadamy by 1 wicket on Thursday but the under 19s had Flintoff and Giles included


Scorecard


ECB National Academy innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6
CMW Read run out (Flintoff) 95 171 123 11 0
MJ Wood lbw b Bresnan 8 34 13 2 0
DI Stevens c & b Thornicroft 1 4 3 0 0
JO Troughton c Hodd b Cusden 11 14 11 2 0
GJ Muchall c Bopara b Giles 46 93 77 4 0
R Clarke c Hodd b Patel 9 9 10 0 0
*+MA Wallace lbw b Lawson 12 7 9 1 0
GJ Batty not out 15 54 32 0 0
KW Hogg c Hodd b Stiff 7 20 16 1 0
Kabir Ali b Stiff 10 10 8 1 0
CT Tremlett not out 2 1 1 0 0
Extras (b 2, lb 4, w 9, nb 8) 23
Total (9 wickets, 50 overs, 213 mins) 239

DNB: MS Panesar.

FoW: 1-39 (Wood), 2-40 (Stevens), 3-59 (Troughton),
4-154 (Muchall), 5-166 (Clarke), 6-195 (Wallace),
7-208 (Read), 8-223 (Hogg), 9-237 (Ali).

Bowling O M R W
Bresnan 5 0 33 1 (3w)
Stiff 6 0 20 2 (2nb, 4w)
Thornicroft 5 1 13 1
Cusden 6 0 32 1 (6nb)
Giles 10 0 35 1 (1w)
Broadbent 5 0 25 0
Patel 4 0 18 1
Lawson 4 0 39 1
Flintoff 3 0 6 0
Shafayat 2 0 12 0

England Under-19s innings (target: 240 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4 6
AW Gale c Wood b Clarke 18 30 32 2 0
NJ Edwards c Wood b Panesar 38 105 59 3 0
TT Bresnan st Wallace b Panesar 21 28 26 4 0
RS Bopara c Tremlett b Hogg 0 7 8 0 0
SR Patel c Hogg b Ali 73 102 84 10 1
+AJ Hodd c & b Troughton 13 33 38 1 0
A Flintoff c Troughton b Tremlett 14 34 19 1 0
AF Giles b Tremlett 0 3 1 0 0
SMJ Cusden b Ali 0 6 3 0 0
ND Thornicroft not out 9 24 9 1 0
*BM Shafayat not out 31 21 17 1 2
Extras (b 6, lb 9, w 5, nb 3) 23
Total (9 wickets, 49.2 overs, 207 mins) 240

DNB: MAK Lawson, DA Stiff, DL Broadbent.

FoW: 1-49 (Gale), 2-79 (Bresnan), 3-81 (Bopara), 4-95 (Edwards),
5-139 (Hodd), 6-186 (Flintoff), 7-191 (Giles), 8-195 (Patel),
9-196 (Cusden).

Bowling O M R W
Tremlett 9.2 0 54 2 (2w)
Ali 9 0 47 2 (1nb)
Clarke 4 0 18 1 (1nb, 1w)
Hogg 8 1 39 1 (1nb, 2w)
Panesar 10 1 31 2
Troughton 9 1 36 1

From cricinfo

 

[marc71178]

Looking at that card - interesting to see Troghton get so many overs, but I'm guessing it wasn't an entirely serious game.

 

[Bazza]

Yeah. Shafayat came in late and scored 31* off 21 for the win. Good batting from Chris Read though (*selectors take note*), playing as a specialist batsman no less!

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Looking at that card - interesting to see Troghton get so many overs, but I'm guessing it wasn't an entirely serious game.

I figure that they should try to develop Troughton's bowling skills as much as possible. Left-arm spim isn't it?

 

[marc71178]

The beast is back!

2 days of the England vs Australia women's test - boy this is an exciting one!

England 128 from 108.3 overs (batting into the second day)
Australia 78 from 41.4 overs
England 87-8 from 58.5 overs

So if you craving sleep, go to the Gabba!