The Ashes - CW's Predictions

[Athlai]

Right its happening at the end of this year so where does CW stand at the moment. This should be an interesting Ashes, their best chance to win in Australia since... last time. But hey! That Australian team was better than this one so you never know.

Australia 2-1 IMO.
Watson MOTS
Swann to pull a 05 Warne-lite.
Ponting to score one huge century and do bugger all else.

 

[Top_Cat]

Australia 3-1
Ponting MOTS
England: Cook to score 400+, Broad to be England's best wicket-taker and win one game for them but their lack of cohesion as a batting and bowling unit will cost them. England to really push Australia in most Tests but just be a bit unlucky overall.
Australia: Ponting with 500+ for the series, Dougeh to continue his rich vein of form and mess Strauss' **** up, Johnson solid
Surprise packet: Steve Smith, who will get a go mid-series and take a bag on debut.

 

[TumTum]

If Burgey means Aus to win, i'd back him.

Australia 4-0 (Adelaide draw)
Watson MOTS
Collingwood to be annoying again, Pietersen to score 1 century, Swann to be murdered ()
Ponting to score most runs, Hilfy or Harris for most wickets, Johnson to have a decent series
Reckon England will come close to winning a couple of matches, but will falter right at the end.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Oz 3-1

Clarke MOTS ()

England: KP top run scorer, Trott to be climbed all over by Bollinger and whoever else is fit to play and dropped by 4th test if series still live, Broad top wicket taker, Strauss to gets lots of starts but nothing really substantial, Jimmeh to be fodder when the kookaburra doesn't swing & Cook to prop up a disappointing series with one big ton in a high scoring draw.

Oz: Clarke top run scorer, Bollinger top wicket taker, North to be replaced either before or early on in series, Watson's bowling to be a factor in one test & Klinger to debut as specialist spinner when Oz slow bowling stocks reach all-time low.

 

[superkingdave]

Aus 4-0

England won't bowl Aus out all series. No England bowler will take more than 10 wickets all series. Batsmen will go ok, but Aus weight ofruns will mean pressure on them all the time. One draw, at least on innings loss as well. Strauss to top score for England

 

[four_or_six]

England 3-0
Broad MOTS
Australia lose a test by an innings
Austalia finish the series in disarray
Ponting resigns

 

[BoyBrumby]

Corrin's hacked f_o_s's account.

 

[Johnners]

Australia 3-1
Clarke MOTS
Ponting to score a bag in the first 2 tests (ala 06/07) with Clarke in support (but scoring more runs for remainder of series) Johnners & Dougeh to take each take 20+ at around 25
KP to top score for yer Poms, Swann won't take more than 10 all series, Broad wins a match with a 10-fer but does bugger all else

 

[blahblahblah]

england 4-1

MOTS-swann

 

[Goughy]

Aus 3-1
Broad 2 or more 50s in the series
Strauss to miss a game or more through injury (if I had to guess then broken finger)
Swann to be England leading wicket taker with an av of over 35
Watson to score a ton in the first Test

 

[four_or_six]

Corrin's hacked f_o_s's account.

Oh yeah, and then we go and win the world cup!

 

[Spark]

Oz 3-1

Clarke MOTS ()

England: KP top run scorer, Trott to be climbed all over by Bollinger and whoever else is fit to play and dropped by 4th test if series still live, Broad top wicket taker, Strauss to gets lots of starts but nothing really substantial, Jimmeh to be fodder when the kookaburra doesn't swing & Cook to prop up a disappointing series with one big ton in a high scoring draw.

Oz: Clarke top run scorer, Bollinger top wicket taker, North to be replaced either before or early on in series, Watson's bowling to be a factor in one test & Klinger to debut as specialist spinner when Oz slow bowling stocks reach all-time low.

Australia 3-1
Clarke MOTS
Ponting to score a bag in the first 2 tests (ala 06/07) with Clarke in support (but scoring more runs for remainder of series) Johnners & Dougeh to take each take 20+ at around 25
KP to top score for yer Poms, Swann won't take more than 10 all series, Broad wins a match with a 10-fer but does bugger all else

These two are probably the best on.

Clarke top run scorer w/ a double at Adelaide
Johnson/Broad top wicket takers, Broad taking 15+ after the series is dead
Smith to score a humiliating hundred and take a 5for within 48 hours
Strauss to to get to 50/60 and get out on multiple occasions
KP to alternate between brilliant and fail
Watto to set a new low (or high?) for hilarious failures to reach milestones

(I'm being a bit predictable here aren't I)

 

[marc71178]

Surprise packet: Steve Smith, who will get a go mid-series and take a bag on debut.

Isn't he going to make his debut in the Pakistan series?

 

[benchmark00]

Australia to win 5-0, only because 6-0 isn't possible.
Ponting to make a hundred in the first innings in Brisbane.
Clarke MOTS.
Swann to do bugger all.
Watson to get out at least twice within ten runs of a milestone.
Ian Bell to be dropped at some point in the series.
Strauss most runs for England. Clarke for Aus.
Bollinger most wickets for Australia. Run outs the most wickets for England...

 

[age_master]

Australia 5-0
Watson MOTS
England - Cook most runs, Broad most wickets. Swann will do nothing.
Australia - Watson most runs, Bollinger most wickets. Johnson to score more runs than 2 of the English top 6.

 

[Top_Cat]

Isn't he going to make his debut in the Pakistan series?

You'd think Ritz would be the twirler for the coming series. Couldn't see OZ playing two spinners?

 

[GIMH]

England 4-1
Pietersen to average 85
Swann to go okay with the ball, score a ton and two fifties with the bat
Ponting to score big in the first test and then do sweet FA
Hussey to forget where his off-stump is (again)
Johnson to serve pies
Broad to top the wickets list
Some Aussie posters to moan that the only reason they lost was because of how badly they played and not how well England played. Others to smugly declare that "it wasn't even England that beat us hohoho I am a comical genius"
Burgey to kidnap all Australian players, drive them to the outback, they are never seen again

 

[Pothas]

Australia 2 England 1.
Clarke to get tons of runs.
Johnson to get revenge for last year.
Cook and Trott will fail, at least one will lose their place during the series.
Bell to score most runs for England.
England win last test in spectacular and unexpected style.

 

[Spark]

England 4-1
Pietersen to average 85
Swann to go okay with the ball, score a ton and two fifties with the bat
Ponting to score big in the first test and then do sweet FA
Hussey to forget where his off-stump is (again)
Johnson to serve pies
Broad to top the wickets list
Some Aussie posters to moan that the only reason they lost was because of how badly they played and not how well England played. Others to smugly declare that "it wasn't even England that beat us hohoho I am a comical genius"
Burgey to kidnap all Australian players, drive them to the outback, they are never seen again

GIMH being unusually pessimistic here

 

[morgieb]

Australia 3-1
Broad to win one match single-handedly, but sucks the rest of the time.
Ponting to return to form in a big way.
Pietersen to play well, but the other batsmen....
Swann will flop here.
Johnson to still be his erratic self.
The score will be 1-1 after 3 games (draw in Adelaide, loss in Perth), but Australia bounce back in Sydney and Melbourne.
Australia to get at least 1 innings win.
Watson to score more 90's.
Smith will get a chance and play his skin out.
Bresnan, should he play, will get carted.
England's bowling at times will be non-existent.
North, Trott and *insert random English seamer* to get dropped.
Simon Jones to make a bizarre return....but gets injured again!

Probably others but cbf.