05/01/'07

[KennyG]

What a great day for Australian cricket and cricket in genaral.
Two legends and a good one retire.
Australia completes the second 5-0 Ashes victory in history.
McGrath takes wickets.
The great opening pair of Langer and Hayden get the total without loss.
Freddy shows his class yet again.

The after match on the ground was good to watch.
Sad and happy at the same time.


Great day.

[Speedboy Salesman]

Originally Posted by KennyG

cricket in genaral.

no, not for English cricket it wasn't.

[Notts Exile]

Originally Posted by KennyG

What a great day for Australian cricket and cricket in genaral.

With all due respect any 5-0 vistory cannot be good for cricket in general. The cricketing world needs to see competitive series like that being played out in South Africa at present. The 2005 Ashes was good for cricket in general, and would have been even if the result had been reversed.

A great day for the Aussies who wanted to see the Poms stuffed. The Aussies who wanted a competitive series will have been sadly disappointed.

[Aussie-Yank]

Yes, I couldn't agree more with NE. This was clearly a bad day for cricket in general. World Cricket needs a strong England and West Indies team for its future, and a 5-0 drubbing can in no way be taken as good for Cricket in general.

[Seamer]

For me, this has been the most disappointing series ever. For me, the Ashes is the be all and end all of cricket.

The Hairgate issue, Muralitheran, Indian money, the asian voting block in the ICC, 20/20 cricket, the increase of meaningless ODI games..............the Ashes is now the only thing left in cricket that holds on to tradition and remains uncorrupted and pure.

Series like this puts the Ashes at threat and that saddens me. If the Ashes die, i will likely turn away from the international game for good.

And the end of the Warne/McGrath era is sad too. But at least i was around to follow the whole of their careers, and like my Grandad told me stories of the Bradman era, i will probably tell my grandkids stories of the Warne era. The time when cricketing giants walked the land....

[Occasional Fan]

Don't get too down, Seamer! The Ashes series are not at risk. As long as there are ravens in the Tower of London and eleven blokes in Australia with two legs apiece, this one will run.

[acker]

look at all them kids on the feild

and thats just Langer, McGraths and Warnes.

the next generation looks bright and well populated.

[KennyG]

What a bunch of wowsers.

It was a great day.

A celebration of a truly great team and the fairwell of three top players.

I would rather watch a one sided game/series with the #1 team dominating the #2 through superior skill,discipline and tactics than watch a close game/series between two lesser teams(S.A vs India) any day.

Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have close games.

If I supported another team I would think the day that Warne and McGrath were going was the best day in history.

[Occasional Fan]

It's a view, Kenny, but not one I subscribe to. There's no point watching walkovers - they are just boring. And as to the departure of Warne and McGrath (not that I would put them in the same category, but I'm prepared to accept that you might), they are a loss to cricket, not just to Australia. Even as an England supporter, I'm sorry that I won't see Warne - or anyone remotely like him - playing test cricket ever again.

[Aussie-Yank]

Originally Posted by acker

look at all them kids on the feild

and thats just Langer, McGraths and Warnes.

the next generation looks bright and well populated.

Yes I was looking at that and wondering what possibilities are there for McGrath's kid and Warne's both making it into an Australian side as bowlers.