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[TP]

Well done to England, I think it was closer than the 3-0 scoreline suggests. There's certainly been some good fighting by the English, although having a few key players not firing, selection issues and the captian seemingly showing the strain has pretty much cost England the chance to retain the ashes. Englands player of the series so far would have to be Pietersen.

Having said that, Australia played well and have done some pretty special things in this series. Hussey has really blossomed, Clarke has performed really well and Ponting seems to have an insatiable appetite for runs - a test average of nearly 60 and the most amount of ton's from any Aussie batsman ever. Warne has bowled quite well to a side that seems to be playing him better and it's taken a few magical deliveries to keep him on top and the wickets flowing. It's amazing that he has 699 test wickets and will get the chance in the boxing day test to record his 700th test wicket in front of his home crowd. As he's a Victorian that's really a fairytale.

Gilchrist rattling off the second fastest test century - 57 deliveries was also pretty amazing. Especially when you consider that it took him 40 deliveries to get his 50 and then he just went ape!

Well done to Punter and the boys

[Tonio600]

It's a pity I don't understand anything to the cricket rules, I would have liked to enjoy that new English defeat.

Nevermind, the 6 Nations are not far away

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[Tonio600]

As we're talking about sport here, I will consider as irrelevant any joke sounding like that:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html

[ratboy]

I'm loving the joke, couldn't really care less about the cricket - England lost - not very surprised really...

[Jools]

Since you're over here, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the Ashes are 'going' home

[beancounter]

Yep, fair play to the Aussies , they thrashed our sorry @rses.

It's comforting in a way to have the "natural order" restored...

[TP]

Originally Posted by Jools

Since you're over here, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the Ashes are 'going' home

Well, not really seeing as they will still live in the glass case in the MCC museum.

I did offer to take them back to Aus for the MCC when I was in there on the tour but they didn't seem too impressed with my generosity ...

[rcgbob44]

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[Monty]

Originally Posted by TP

Well done to England, I think it was closer than the 3-0 scoreline suggests. There's certainly been some good fighting by the English, although having a few key players not firing, selection issues and the captian seemingly showing the strain has pretty much cost England the chance to retain the ashes. Englands player of the series so far would have to be Pietersen.

Having said that, Australia played well and have done some pretty special things in this series. Hussey has really blossomed, Clarke has performed really well and Ponting seems to have an insatiable appetite for runs - a test average of nearly 60 and the most amount of ton's from any Aussie batsman ever. Warne has bowled quite well to a side that seems to be playing him better and it's taken a few magical deliveries to keep him on top and the wickets flowing. It's amazing that he has 699 test wickets and will get the chance in the boxing day test to record his 700th test wicket in front of his home crowd. As he's a Victorian that's really a fairytale.

Gilchrist rattling off the second fastest test century - 57 deliveries was also pretty amazing. Especially when you consider that it took him 40 deliveries to get his 50 and then he just went ape!

Well done to Punter and the boys

I'm seriously impressed Tony, that is a very well reasoned precis of the result when I would have really expected you to be crowing about sticking it to the bl00dy Poms.
But you're right-we didn't deserve to win.

John

[Jon]

Am I right in thinking a lot of the Ozzie players are Gay. Why else would they wear lipstick in public. :-)