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Ashes - have the bookies got it right?

View Poll Results: Aussies massive favourites: just 1 in 4 chance of an upset - right?
Aussies more likely to win than odds suggest	3	13.64%
Odds are about right	7	31.82%
England more likely to win than odds suggest	10	45.45%
Too early to say: revisit this later	2	9.09%
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll

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21-06-2005, 12:56 PM in reply to greg's post starting "Same reason that England didn't replace..."

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Might it have something to do with the fact that most players reach their peak rather later in their careers and aren't really ready before that? You get exceptions like Tendulkar... but the normal result of sending someone in young is what we got with Ed Smith (dropped), Rob Key (dropped) and (worst of all) Flintoff (carried around as a passenger for 5 years whilst he learns what batting and bowling are all about).

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