Vincent Aceling
Ashes whitewash!
November 13th 2006 09:07
In a couple of week’s time Australia and England will resume their battle for the Ashes in Brisbane. It’s hard to believe that the baggy green are actually looking to win it back this time. Under Steve Waugh they managed to win 9 Ashes series in a row before faltering to an emerging English side last year. Undoubtedly one of the biggest rivalries in world sport, the battle against the old enemy will be fuelled with controversy.
England played their first tour match against the Prime minister’s XI and there was absolutely nothing to write home about. They were convincingly out played in every facet of the game and look beaten before the Ashes series has begun. Injury plagued and without key players from their last win in Jones and Vaughan. It’s hard to see a younger and very much inexperienced English side win on Australian soil. Although I’m very much backing the Aussies in this one, I’m hoping a contest evolves and not another whitewash that seems apparent.
Recently both Justin Langer and Damien Martyn have been under scrutiny due to their age and the possibility of not being able to perform on the world stage. I find that to be quite a ridiculous summary of two players who have consistently performed and both average over 45 in test cricket. The Aussies are still the one’s to beat and it could be that way for years to come, form and age cannot be compared until Langer or Martyn start failing.
The ashes will deliver a fascinating contest, hopefully one that lives up to the last series where England narrowly overcame a raging Shane Warne.
England played their first tour match against the Prime minister’s XI and there was absolutely nothing to write home about. They were convincingly out played in every facet of the game and look beaten before the Ashes series has begun. Injury plagued and without key players from their last win in Jones and Vaughan. It’s hard to see a younger and very much inexperienced English side win on Australian soil. Although I’m very much backing the Aussies in this one, I’m hoping a contest evolves and not another whitewash that seems apparent.
Recently both Justin Langer and Damien Martyn have been under scrutiny due to their age and the possibility of not being able to perform on the world stage. I find that to be quite a ridiculous summary of two players who have consistently performed and both average over 45 in test cricket. The Aussies are still the one’s to beat and it could be that way for years to come, form and age cannot be compared until Langer or Martyn start failing.
The ashes will deliver a fascinating contest, hopefully one that lives up to the last series where England narrowly overcame a raging Shane Warne.
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