The Test Cricket Resurgence

[sifter132]

Indeed they are - so strap yourself in for Ashes madness in the next 12-18 months And just because everyone loves Aus-Eng stuff so much they've put a random 5 match ODI series in a month's time over in England - you gotta love the scheduling...

 

[War]

Yes, the schedule has 5 Tests in England in mid 2013, followed by 5 Tests in the Australian summer of 2013/14. So, there'll be a whole 3 months between series. I think long term it's going to help England out - they are always bitching about having to come to Australia for the Ashes, and then play a World Cup a couple of months later...whinging Poms If they ever won a WC there would be no complaints... Despite those benefits, I think the administrators were VERY happy with the idea of moving up the Australian hosted Ashes, purely from a greed point of view. Ashes means more money, more viewers etc. But to be fair, after next years 10 back-to-back Tests, no one will care about Ashes overkill it will go back to normal.

Nah its been going on since the 2002/03 Ashes and it really had to stop because it messed up England's preparations going into the last three world cups. So this back-to-back Ashes next year as i understand it, is to get rid of this trend.

Indeed they are - so strap yourself in for Ashes madness in the next 12-18 months And just because everyone loves Aus-Eng stuff so much they've put a random 5 match ODI series in a month's time over in England - you gotta love the scheduling...

Nah this was done strategically because the European Championship will be going on and just in case England do well, this soccer mad country will be engrossed.

The same thing was done during 2010 football world cup as you may remember. Australia really are the only touring team at the height of a world-cup/euro year - that can pull good crowds to a cricket ground.