The Ashes, The Ashes
Aug. 15th, 2005 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athersgeoSo. Here we are. They reckoned last week that were England to go 2-0 down, there'd have been no way back in the series (despite the fact that there would be three tests still to play). If Australia go 2-1 down here, is there a way back for them with two tests remaining?
There's rumours of in-team ructions (and though Gilchrist and McGrath deny the rumours of Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting having a bust up, there is a little of the 'well they would say that, wouldn't they' about those denials, particularly Gilchrist's), there's injury problems, there's form problems (when your fourth top scorer is extras and your second and third seamers are only trusted to bowl 16 overs in an innings of nearly 62 overs, you're a team in trouble), heck, Gilchrist said it himself: The team's under seige. Welcome to being England-on-tour-in-Austrlia, lads. Not so much fun, is it?
There's 98 overs of play today. It's 98 overs for Australia to go some way to showing why they're ranked World No.1 - and given that England have bowled them out five innings out of five so far, unless someone steps up and produces something really out of the ordinary (or England let the pressure of the moment get to them completely), I can't quite see it happening.
And that's a sentence I never thought I'd write!
There's rumours of in-team ructions (and though Gilchrist and McGrath deny the rumours of Shane Warne and Ricky Ponting having a bust up, there is a little of the 'well they would say that, wouldn't they' about those denials, particularly Gilchrist's), there's injury problems, there's form problems (when your fourth top scorer is extras and your second and third seamers are only trusted to bowl 16 overs in an innings of nearly 62 overs, you're a team in trouble), heck, Gilchrist said it himself: The team's under seige. Welcome to being England-on-tour-in-Austrlia, lads. Not so much fun, is it?
There's 98 overs of play today. It's 98 overs for Australia to go some way to showing why they're ranked World No.1 - and given that England have bowled them out five innings out of five so far, unless someone steps up and produces something really out of the ordinary (or England let the pressure of the moment get to them completely), I can't quite see it happening.
And that's a sentence I never thought I'd write!
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Date: 2005-08-15 10:34 am (UTC)*crosses various things*