The Ashes are coming home!

[simmy]

Every Englishmen knew what this team was capable of. Everytime I, or anyone else mentioned anything positive about the side it would be shot down by some smartass comment of how good McGrath or Ponting was or how overrated Flintoff seemed to be.

I now hope that every Aussie has hangs his deflated head in shame! You werent just beaten today... you were raped! In every facet of our great sport: England dominated

You can say that this was a one-off win in a meaningless Twenty20 game but are there any positives to be drawn from the Aus performance? No.

Flintoff.. who much hyped as influential to a victory need not have turned up and by the time Harmison had balled a ball the game was won.

So many times I heard about the Bangladeshi fixtures being pointless and Eng not getting anything out of them... well to be honest... on today's performance the Aus would have struggled to beat them.

An old "codger", who I actually predicted to get a hattrick (wasnt far off) and a debutant skittled the entire batting line-up of the supposed "best side in the world".

The Aussies looked scared... The Ashes are coming home!

 

[Swervy]

ok then

 

[PY]

Hit me now, in the face, with a 20-foot pole which has been wrapped in rusting barbed-wire.

Quickly, before I have to read it again.

 

[simmy]

Oh Goughie...

 

[steds]

Don't get too carried away

 

[Swervy]

Don't get too carried away

and before that

http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1997/AUS_IN_ENG/SCORECARDS/AUS_ENG_TEX_ODI3_25MAY1997.html

 

[simmy]

Im only getting "carried away" because the Eng team made the Aus look weak and frightened. Giving their wickets away... ironically like the England of old used to. Vaughan has got a worldbeating team here. Noone can deny this,

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

England won a relatively insignificant game very comfortably and thoughroughly outplayed Australia in every facet of the match. Don't read into it any further than that. It was ONE game, and it was only 20/20.

If they play that well in the NWS too, then I'll sit up and take notice.

 

[PY]

One of the best ODI innings I've had the pleasure of watching on TV from Ben Hollioake (R.I.P.) purely because it was so exciting to see it from a young England player rather than the other way round.

 

[sledger]

agreed, considering most of the aussie team havnt played much 20/20 anyway this proves very little, this may be a morale booster but essentially it wont be anything more than that, this will have no bearings on the test matches, and they will bounce back, mark my words.

 

[superkingdave]

agreed, considering most of the aussie team havnt played much 20/20 anyway this proves very little, this may be a morale booster but essentially it wont be anything more than that, this will have no bearings on the test matches, and they will bounce back, mark my words.

IIRC the Aussie team had played as much if not more Twenty20 games that the English, not that it matters

 

[aussie]

i dont care what anyone says this win here will give england the world of confidence, but i dont see how them winnings a crzy 20/20 international will help them to win the ashes since its a whole different situation all together but it will give eng the confidence that we can beat the australians

 

[simmy]

It just shows the transformation under Vaughan. It was obvious how much they were all pumped up (Gough in particular), for once it maybe the Aussies running scared! This is a huge confidence booster... especially after all the derogatory press that Aussies gave. Stuff like "only Flintoff will get in my side (Ponting)." So good to see the smile off those faces! Next time Vaughan, Flintoff, Harmison and Solanki may actually need to turn up!

Michael Clarke was brilliant by the way.

 

[steds]

Stuff like "only Flintoff will get in my side (Ponting)." .

Except he's not Australian? I think "Only Flintoff could get in my side (Ponting)" would be more appropriate and taking the (Ponting) out of the inverted commas would be even better

 

[simmy]

Well he is wrong whichever way you look at it! (I am typing very fast because of my anger).

 

[steds]

I am typing very fast because of my anger

Sorry. I'm only trying to help

 

[tooextracool]

Stuff like "only Flintoff will get in my side (Ponting)."

other than possibly strauss for hayden(and even that seems premature given strauss isnt proven yet), who else is proven good enough to replace the other aussies?

 

[SpeedKing]

Don't get too carried away

Thank you. we should not forget that. Looking it Aus innings will in detail, the got off to abit of a flyer and then it all went downhill. we should keep that in consideration and just take everything as it comes, when it comes as best as we can. Remember that this team has dominated world cricket for so long, that they have developed a great amount of something called bouncebackabilty so they will not go and hang there heads after something this minor. England should brace themselves for a possible backlash in uor next encounter, and knowing England's recent ODI perfomances, i wouldn't bet against a sound English beating

 

[aussie]

this is now two hyped games that england have beaten australia now, i think it will be getting to them

 

[aussie]

Don't get too carried away

ahhhhh yes, but has Jon Agnew said to see the aussies beaten so convincingly is a rare privalenge. Too bad for me i didn't get to see the entire thing i was busy with my GF