Victory Margin

[KennyG]

Sorry I am a day late with this.

As Australia is obviously going to regain the urn I would like other peoples predictions on the final result.
On 07/01/'07 we can look back & see who got it right.

My feeling is it will be 3 to 1.

[Ernest]

Originally Posted by KennyG

As Australia is obviously going to regain the urn I would like other peoples predictions on the final result.
On 07/01/'07 we can look back & see who got it right.

Ok England will retain the Ashes, both sides have problems - no real predictions can be made on one days play, remember 2005, Australia won the first Test at Lords, the rst was history.

[KennyG]

Numbers please.

[first change]

It's an excersise based entirely on guess work. I think, all things being equal, Australia will probably win. But they won't if Warne doesn't fire, or if KP runs amok with the bat and Harmison with the ball. If I had to be pushed, I'd say Aus 3-1, but 2-2 a distinct possibility.

Of course, the beauty of sport is that none of us have any idea!

[Ernest]

Originally Posted by KennyG

Numbers please.

Don't need to play the numbers game, I don't know - what I do know is that England are defending the Ashes Australia have to win them back.
IMO England could get a drawn series which would be enough.

Unlike 2005 which was easy to predict, this series I think will twist and turn, so how do you get numbers?.

[dickies dragons]

KennyG,
it pains me to say it,but your lot are better than ours!!!!!!!!!!!!
4.1.to Aussies.

[greg]

2-2,Dad's Army will be creaking with all the back to back games and England will get stronger as the series goes on.

[flanflinger]

Originally Posted by KennyG

As Australia is obviously going to regain the urn

By batting well on a featherbed you have deduced this?? Lets wait till England atleast bat before deciding that this is the case.

Also don't forget that England lost the first Test last time and won two out of the next three, we only needto draw and the Ashes are going nowhere!!

[Pete]

Originally Posted by flanflinger

By batting well on a featherbed you have deduced this?? Lets wait till England atleast bat before deciding that this is the case.

Also don't forget that England lost the first Test last time and won two out of the next three, we only needto draw and the Ashes are going nowhere!!

Agree that it's a featherbed, but bar Lee, their bowlers should be more accurate than ours and there's always more pressure batting when the opposition has put a shedload of runs on the board.

And at home, we had bowlers who were fit and firing. Would love to be proved wrong, but can't see anything less than a 3-1 result to Australia at the moment.

[Quagmire]

England were horrible today, they were totally humiliated by the Australian batting line up, apart from Giles & Flintoff the rest of the side didn’t look like they could bowl out the Australian U19's team. Ponting was a class above all the bowlers apart from Flintoff.



I have a lot of respect for Flintoff because of the way he carried his side with the ball, I expect a lot of dead weight that Flintoff will have to carry through out the series. Harmison bowled poop, Hoggard could not swing the kookaburra ball, Anderson's accuracy was disappointing, Giles was good he varied his pace and flight very well and did not allow the batsman to move there feet to the pitch of the ball.



Congratulations Ricky Ponting bringing up his 32nd test century which is amazing at the age of 31, plenty more to come in this series and the future.



Agree with the excuse that it was a flat wicket but it is not an excuse for poor line and length, Flintoff showed how to bowl on a flat track. Hit the deck hard. McGrath, Lee and Clark are good at that method. Plus Warne’s favourite place to bowl in Australia is the GABBA.

Australia 4-0