England Tour Of Australia 2013/14

[War]

Getting a feeling last week or so that this series will be reminiscent of the 1972 Ashes & be drawn 2-2. Something tells me that AUS will step to a certain degree @ home, while ENG will probably remain at the same level they are currently - but it will be just enough to keep them from losing the series.

 

[SpitfiresKent]

Seriously can't wait for Wednesday night

I'll be pulling an all nighter that's for sure!

 

[War]

Yep this will be my 5th time preparing for the usual 12:30 am UK start for the Brisbane Ashes. 98, 2002, 2006, 2010. Usually those 1st days haven't been been happy memories for ENG though - worst being Hussain's blunder to bowl 1st after winning the toss in 2002.

 

[Aalay]

Even though Enlgnad is likely to go with Tremlett, any of you think Rankin would be a better option? I mean he is as tall as Finn and Tremlett so he will get that bounce, bowls at decent pace and is unlikely to leak as many runs as Finn. I don't know what his record is in County cricket but what I have seen so far from him at International level, he looks pretty good.

 

[War]

Even though Enlgnad is likely to go with Tremlett, any of you think Rankin would be a better option? I mean he is as tall as Finn and Tremlett so he will get that bounce, bowls at decent pace and is unlikely to leak as many runs as Finn. I don't know what his record is in County cricket but what I have seen so far from him at International level, he looks pretty good.

He certainly would do a good job if picked, but who knows really what the ENG selectors will do with the 3rd seamer - its a mystery like who runs Sicily.

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Big shouts out the Kevin "The Great" Pietersen on the verge of 100th tests.

England have produced many great batsmen. But many of them follow a similar archetype. Hutton, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Barrington, Gower, Thorpe, Ranji, Dulip, Boycott, Gooch namely. If you think about it you can describe as textbook technically correct batsmen who accumulated their runs in a stylish manner. In modern times Cook, Trott, Bell, Atherton, Stewart, Vaughan continued this trend.

But few ENG batsmen batted with the kind of destruction and flair that a Lara, Viv Richards, Bradman, Ponting etc had. Pietersen alongside, Hammond, Compton & Ted Dexter are the few that did, which is why KP will always stand out when judging the great English batsmen.

 

[barmyarmy]

Nick Compton right?

 

[angryangy]

Runs Sicily? I'd always suspected.

 

[blockerdave]

He certainly would do a good job if picked, but who knows really what the ENG selectors will do with the 3rd seamer - its a mystery like who runs Sicily.

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Big shouts out the Kevin "The Great" Pietersen on the verge of 100th tests.

England have produced many great batsmen. But many of them follow a similar archetype. Hutton, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Barrington, Gower, Thorpe, Ranji, Dulip, Boycott, Gooch namely. If you think about it you can describe as textbook technically correct batsmen who accumulated their runs in a stylish manner. In modern times Cook, Trott, Bell, Atherton, Stewart, Vaughan continued this trend.

But few ENG batsmen batted with the kind of destruction and flair that a Lara, Viv Richards, Bradman, Ponting etc had. Pietersen alongside, Hammond, Compton & Ted Dexter are the few that did, which is why KP will always stand out when judging the great English batsmen.

Can't believe you missed out Eddie Paynter (first category) or Peter May (not quite second, but closer)

 

[War]

Can't believe you missed out Eddie Paynter (first category) or Peter May (not quite second, but closer)

Yes forgot about May, but i'm not sure i'd put Paynter up in either category.

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Runs Sicily? I'd always suspected.

You know how the story goes, the feds always catch the front man over the years for the siclian mob - but the real capo di tutti capi's have always loomed large & thus its always been a mystery who runs that place.