Ashes Predictions Thread

[andyc]

Surprised one of these doesn't exist already. Ripping the criteria from the Aus-SA series:

Series Result:
Top Eng Runscorer:
Top Aus Runscorer:
Top Eng Wicket-taker:
Top Aus Wicket-taker:
Player of the Series:
Surprise Packet:
Dropped Player(s):
Miscellaneous Event:


Personally, going something like:

Series Result: Australia 2-0
Top Eng Run scorer: Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Hughes
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Swann
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Siddle
Player of the Series: Johnson
Surprise Packet: Broad and Swann
Dropped Player(s): Sidebottom and Monty (if they play) for England, Lee for Australia
Miscellaneous Event: Michael Hussey to find form again, Monty won't play more than one Test, and Lee will play his last Test for Australia

[pasag]

Series Result: Aus 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Bopara
Top Aus Runscorer: Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Katich
Surprise Packet: Anderson (for general Australians who haven't seen him since 06/07)
Dropped Player(s): North/McDonald
Miscellaneous Event: Three Tests will have an Australian centurion in them, two won't.

[inbox24]

Series Result: Eng 2-0
Top Eng Runscorer: Bopara
Top Aus Runscorer: Haddin
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Siddle
Player of the Series: Bopara
Surprise Packet: Prior
Dropped Player(s): -
Miscellaneous Event: England will declare themselves world champions upon victory

[jondavluc]

5-0 Aus
Top Eng Runscorer: Ian Bell
Top Aus Runscorer: Micheal Hussey
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Graham Swann
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Ben Hilfenhaus
Player of the Series: Ben Hilfenhaus
Surprise Packet: Nathan Hauritz
Dropped Player(s): North
Miscellaneous Event: Ravi after being Called the new Don by many English Journalists he gets out for 3 ducks in a row and gets dropped.

[GIMH]

Series Result: 2-1 England
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Anderson
Surprise Packet: Broad (I won't be surprised myself though)
Dropped Player(s): Lee
Miscellaneous Event: CW will run slowly throughout the series because of the amount of murray mint pics posted by Burgey

[morgieb]

Series Result: Australia 3-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Pieterson (if fit, if not Cook)
Top Aus Runscorer: Hughes
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Hughes
Surprise Packet: Lee getting back into form
Dropped Player(s): Bopara, Prior, Panesar, etc.
Miscellaneous Event: England getting raped in the first 3 games before Australia slow down. Australia showing that their T20 form was just a blip on the radar. England to get cocky in the media after "below average warm-up". More to come when I CBF thinking about it.

[irfan]

Series Result: Australia 4-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: M Hussey
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Siddle
Player of the Series: M Hussey
Surprise Packet: Marcus North at 6
Dropped Player(s): England's third seamer (Onions?)
Miscellaneous Event: Ponting hit on the other cheek by a Stuart Broad bouncer

[King Pietersen]

Series Result: 6-0 to England
Top Eng Runscorer: Kevin Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Simon Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Stuart Broad
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Peter Siddle
Player of the Series: Stuart Broad
Surprise Packet: Stuart Broad
Dropped Player(s): Brett Lee
Miscellaneous Event: Ponting run out at least once every Test by a substitute fielder

[Athlai]

Series Result: Aus 4-0
Top Eng Runscorer: Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Hughes
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker:Johnson
Player of the Series: Johnson
Surprise Packet: Swann
Dropped Player(s): Monty
Miscellaneous Event: Hughes to continue averaging above 60 by the end of the series.

[Simon]

Series Result: Australia 3-0
Top Eng Runscorer: Andrew Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Simon Katich
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Andrew Flintoff
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Mitchell Johnson
Player of the Series: Simon Katich
Surprise Packet: Mike Hussey (Will return to form in a big way - seems to be a bit forgotten)
Dropped Player(s): Australia will use at least 5 different quicks in the series so take your pick
Miscellaneous Event: Flintoff will score a run a ball century at some stage

[Richard]

Series Result: Australian comfortable victory. Weather too unpredictable to go for an exact scoreline.
Top Eng Runscorer: KP Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Brad Haddin
Top Eng Wicket-taker: James Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Mitchell Johnson
Player of the Series:
Surprise Packet: Brad Haddin
Dropped Player(s): if MSP, Lee and Onions play any Tests as first-choice (which is possible to near-certain) then I can quite see 'em being dropped. Also find it conceivable though not out-and-out likely that Prior and Cook might go.
Miscellaneous Event (AKA random wildcard): two cases of on-a-hat-trick with a hat-trick resulting in neither.

[Richard]

Miscellaneous Event: CW will run slowly throughout the series because of the amount of murray mint pics posted by Burgey

So obvious it barely needs predicting, for my money.

[Scaly piscine]

Series Result: England 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Strauss
Top Aus Runscorer: Ponting
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Broad
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Clark
Player of the Series: Broad
Surprise Package (Packet? wtf): Strauss
Dropped Player(s): Lee/Siddle
Miscellaneous Event: The Ashes Test thieving Welsh will stage a dire low quality match

[PhoenixFire]

Series Result: Aus 2-1
Top Eng Runscorer: Pietersen
Top Aus Runscorer: Ponting
Top Eng Wicket-taker: Anderson
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Johnson
Player of the Series: Johnson
Surprise Packet: Rashid
Dropped Player(s): Clarke
Miscellaneous Event: A bird doing a **** in Sidebottom's hair.

[GIMH]

at the last two miscellaneous tips

So hyped for the Ashes. Thank God we're done with this **** micky mouse cricket and can get down to business