Cricket Web presents the Best XI of the tournament comprising the players with the best performances.
Shane Watson pulled up stiff after training in the lead-up to Australia’s first warm-up match of the tour. In other news, roses were declared to be red, violets blue and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was overheard muttering something about shaking sauce bottles.
Source: Foxsports muttering something about shaking sauce bottles.
Welcome to the first installment of Ashes HQ, a blog to capture the highs, lows, events and non-events which comprise an Ashes series. The series of 2005 was a fillip for Test cricket and the 2009 summer in England has fans and punters alike lining up for more of the same.
The blog is a collaborative, multi-national effort composed of esteemed members of the Cricket Web family; Zac Gelman and Cameron Burge (Australia), Martyn Corrin and Richard Dickinson (England), Will Quinn (Ireland) and yours truly, Corey Taylor also from Australia.
Over the course of the summer, you’ll be seeing the series through the eyes of the above contributors and we’ll be doing our best to provide balanced commentary but also some of the more off-the-wall happenings which occur in an Ashes summer. Whatever happens, hopefully Australia England cricket is the winner.
We are proud to open up our Fantasy Cricket competition for the Ashes 2009. In association with Codemasters, the winners will recieve a copy of their latest cricket game which is appropriately named Ashes Cricket 2009.