Not much work these days at office.. what i'm doing right now was a distant dream some 6 months back.. Yup you guessed it right - drafting a blog while at work.
It's been quite boring all day so far at work but not so for the English supporters. Memorable day for all of 'em. Freddie Flintoff is the man for the day. Go to London now. You will get to know how much does an ASHES test victory means to them. I knew it. A month back when i was there, there was no talk about World T20. Its all Ashes. And this victory came from Lord's - which ended 75 year drought - is like icing in the cake.
After a 'Ordinary' test at Cardiff, England arrived at Lord's with a major injury - Freddie's test retirement. Punter added insult to injury by terming it "Circus". As Warne & Hussey predicted, it spurred Fred, who indeed delivered the killer punch to knock down the aussies on the final day. Truly inspirational spell of fast bowling. Atherton's question summed it up during post match presentation.
Atherton : Was there any chance Strauss could get the ball out of your hand this morning?
Fred : "Mate, there was no chance."
I'm thinking about how crucial was Strauss's innings of 161 on a bowling friendly seeming conditions? Invaluable. He setup the match for the rest and i believe he deserves to get great applause. It was hugely disappointing to see KP's dodgy 2nd innings largely marred by his achilles problem. Hope he gets fit and firing at Birmingham.
And Bopara - hard to understand how good he is at international level. Three back to back ducks against Srilanka & three back to back hundreds against West Indies prior to this series and nothing significant in this series so far. It convinced me to agree on Warne's comments "he's too much style, not enough substance, and sure enough, his Test record is beginning to look alarmingly skew-whiff". I won't be surprised if Bell replaces him at Birmingham and may be Harmison for Onions.
Plenty of headaches for Ricky though. Mitch arrived as spearhead and i'm sure he will be in fear now. They might be tempted to avail Stuart Clark's service. Performance wise johnson needs to give way. But reputation wise, i feel sorry for Siddle who might lose the battle.
Its too early to say the outcome of the series. But mouthwatering contest ahead in the weeks to come.
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Ashes 2005 was great because it was a battle between arguably the two best test sides at that point in time.
Right now its just a fight between two mediocre but two equally weak sides.
The English are shameless people in a sense that they have not won a single tournament and try to hide behind the excuse of an impending ashes or a single ashes victory every decade all the fucking time.
Remember they got a 5-0 drubbing last time around.I think even bangla could have pulled one draw.
Bottomline,Ashes will always be big for england because they cannot and will not win one international tournament.
C'mon guys they would have won 2 or 3 times in the last 3 or 4 decades.
Its like illaya thalapthi (vijay )acting well(that is 2 much to ask)ok lesser expections -one watchable movie in in one of his 50 movies.I am hoping he will be lucky one day
let me explain the anaogy so that you ppl can understand how good an england sides
1.England winning a world cup = vijay winning oscar for acting
2.England winning any international tournament = one person in the whole world liked at least one scene in the movie villu
3.England winning ashes in australia = vijay movie with any logic or without a punch dialogue
in the last post i meant to say analogy and how good the england side is
I actually was thinking of writing a post about Freddie and entered blogger to find that you have overtook me.
Freddie was awesome yesterday; they way he bowled would have put any side in trouble. To hit just a back of length that too at an angle consistently is something really good. I think Freddie is the best pace bowler at the moment, I do agree that he is not consistent and has not fully used his talent. But at the moment he is the best.
And to Manu's point, everybody knows that England is a mediocre side. Vijay has some good films like Kushi, Kadhalukku Mariyadhai & Gilli and you can't deny that we didn't enjoy it. England to are good to watch at times and this one such moment. And one of the primary reasons is Freddie. It was Freddie who started in 2005 and now also.
Freddie troubling Hussey in both the innings was one of the most beautiful moments to watch. The way Freddie set him up and bowled him in the first innings was something which every aspiring bowler should look upon. He was consistently bowling a bit short of length and just one ball pitched a little bit in front, Hussey shouldered his arms to see the ball clipping the off stump, simply lovely mate.
Though it may be a battle between mediocre sides, it is a battle between two sides which are of equal strength which makes it worth watching. I would prefer to watch this series instead of The Invincibles steamroll Bangladesh.
Manu, I love your comment "Right now its just a fight between two mediocre but two equally weak sides" :))
About English cricket team - yes agreed. But about Illayathalapathi?
I don't have to tell..World knows :)) Watch out for "Vettaikaran"
Hehe.. Mayil, yeah for a change :)
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