Ashes Predictions Thread

[fredfertang]

Originally Posted by zaremba

Was there any evidence that those Hartlepool fans were caused H., A. or D. by your behaviour? I'd have thought the prosecution might have struggled to prove that.

Did you plead guilty?

More likely the cozzers were the "victims"

[zaremba]

Anyone else watching Edgbaston 2005 Day 1 on ESPN Classic?

Brings tears to the eyes

[GIMH]

No, but will almost certainly dig out the Ashes 2005 DVDs this weekend

[GingerFurball]

Originally Posted by zaremba

Anyone else watching Edgbaston 2005 Day 1 on ESPN Classic?

Brings tears to the eyes

"We're going to have a bowl mate."

\o/

[zaremba]

Originally Posted by GingerFurball

"We're going to have a bowl mate."

\o/

1st time Stralia had conceded over 400 on the 1st day of a Test since 1938

[GIMH]

Will next Wednesday be the first since 2005?

[zaremba]

I would have thought so.

My only concern is that Brett Lee may have worked out in the interim that bowling an endless stream of wide half-volleys is a bad idea at Test level.

[Jimmy Padams]

Series Result: 2-1 to England
Top Eng Runscorer: Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Pietersen
Surprise Packet: Swann
Dropped Player(s): Broad
Miscellaneous Event: The irony-meter to burst as Ponting criticising unsporting behaviour from the English

[Son Of Coco]

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

No, but will almost certainly dig out the Ashes 2005 DVDs this weekend

I think the wounds have healed enough now for me to watch this too.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by GingerFurball

"We're going to have a bowl mate."

\o/

Always wished the coin had come down the other way - would be seen as yet another act of glorious heroism by Vaughan rather than the ridiculously overstated mistake by Ponting that it was.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

I can tell you that when Clarke went, I thought, "that's it, the win, **** yes!" yeah. I wasn't watching, I was on a minibus on the way back from Swansea. And I thought, that's the win, we've done it, we've done it.

Which means, regardless of what happened afterwards, Harmy took the key wicket. He was the one who took the wicket that meant the match was won, IMO. It was Harmison who got Clarke out and that was the key wicket, but yes, what happened afterwards made it even more vital.

I was awarded £75 once, and I was made up. But just a couple of weeks later I was fined £80, and thought to myself, jeez, but for that £75 I'd have really been in the **** this month. Getting fined that £80 made the £75 I had been awarded more important. Things often become more important than they seemed at the time, and Harmison's wicket of Clarke is one of them.

I have no doubt I could come-up with a similar metaphor illustrating the reverse. I'll tell you what I thought when Clarke's wicket fell - I thought "well that's another one on the way". The game was in the bag barring a miracle before and after Clarke's wicket.

There is no way that wicket will ever be a key one AFAIC. And no, that has nothing to do with the fact that Harmison took it - although if, say, Hoggard had got it it's unlikely I'd ever even have posted about it once, because no-one would ever talk much about it.

[pasag]

Series Result: Aus 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Bopara
Top Aus Runscorer: Clarke
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Clarke
Surprise Packet: Anderson (for general Australians who haven't seen him since 06/07)
Dropped Player(s): Hauritz
Miscellaneous Event: England will pass 500 twice.

Changing this to Clarke, looks far and away the best player on tour so far.

[wfdu_ben91]

England will dominate the 1st Test and it'll look like the only result possible is England winning, but somehow they'll find a way of drawing it. Australia will then dominate the rest of the series, apart from the last Test, which will be a deadrubber that England win and that victory will make the poms think that they'll win the next Ashes series, despite the fact that they'll only win because of several dubious umpiring decisions and Australia's lack of desire because of the match being a deadrubber.

Result: Australia wins, England loses...

[frey]

Originally Posted by wfdu_ben91

England will dominate the 1st Test and it'll look like the only result possible is England winning, but somehow they'll find a way of drawing it. Australia will then dominate the rest of the series, apart from the last Test, which will be a deadrubber that England win and that victory will make the poms think that they'll win the next Ashes series, despite the fact that they'll only win because of several dubious umpiring decisions and Australia's lack of desire because of the match being a deadrubber.

Result: Australia wins, England loses...

That makes sense, but I think it will be Australia all the way to match the previous 5-0 drubbing they handed out in the last series in Australia.

[Johnners]

Series Result: 3-1 Australia
Top Eng Runscorer: Bopara
Top Aus Runscorer: Clarke
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Lee
Player of the Series: Clarke
Surprise Packet: Lee (still plenty of people who think he'll be not so hot)
Dropped Player(s): Hauritz, Clark, Panesar, Cook
Miscellaneous Event: KP will get out at least twice to either of Hauritz/North