The Ashes
 

Congratulations to the England and Wales cricket team on regaining the Ashes. Well played.

It's good to see a nice tight series and I'm already looking forward to the return one.

It's a shame to see Freddie retire too, he's got HUGE ticker.

Awesome result for England!
All credit to the Aussies as they had a mountain to climb and went for it with spirit.
Great game all round.
Well done chaps!
{polite applause}
:D

Well it is cricket :lol: :D

Sod that!! WE WON.WE WON.WE WON.

We hammered them,the Ashes are ours,OURS i said.HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!

Oh,well played Austalia.

Fair play as ever for getting on here and being magnanimous in defeat...

Have to say, at 217-2 I was starting to get nervous... :eek:

was a great game and i was panicing at one stage the impossible might happen.
shame freddie didnt go out with a big bang but the runout did nicely

have I missed something important? ;)

WeeJohnyB

Yep...

I thought that Ponting's sportsmanship shaking Freddie by the hand as he played his last test innings summed up the spirit of the series.

Two hugely talented but flawed teams certainly make for a roller coaster ride, much better than a predictable hammering

Great result, pity such a monumental series could only be see on "pay to view" TV apart from the highlights in the evening.

Aussies seem to have been holding up will until Flinters ran out Mr. Ponting in such spectacular style. Tail end collapse was pretty spectacular but the pressure must have been immense! Harmisson so close to the hat trick as well!

Good to see a more sportsmanlike attitude from the crowd than has always been the case, probably easier to be magnanimous in the face of victory though.

Wonder what the folks who have pre-bought Monday tickets get to do? :rolleyes:

I pay for Sky and IMO is worth every penny, the traditional channels would never give the coverage that the sport deserves. The BBC and MotoGP is proof, Eurosport covered the whole event, BBC just cherry pick the main race !

I pay for the basic Sky package and get MotoGP coverage on Eurosport as part of that deal, if I wanted to watch the cricket I needed to pay for an additional sport channel which is largely full of poxy football so not worth the extra IMO.

Depends how much of a cricket fan you are!

Or perhaps how much you hate football :D :rolleyes: