I know this is the sort of thing that comes back and bites you on the bum but I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict an outcome in the upcoming Ashes. The Aussies will win back the little urn with a 3-1 series victory. The wins will come in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney. Adelaide’ll be a draw and the Poms might pick up a result in Melbourne.
Anyone else brave enough to make a prediction?
Like I said in a couple of my comments in the Bergen blog, I’m actually looking forward to following the series here in the UK – in the dark, in the cold, with radio under the pillow.
Trust me, it’s the only way to follow the series!
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Bloody Oath! 3-1? I reckon 2-2, with Panesar being the hero in Sydney, Peiterson in Perth and Harmisson the villain in Brisbane due to his lack of control!!
Hi Peter,
I will be following it in Singapore – a good time-difference in my books. I’m looking forward to sitting at home with the cricket droning in the back-ground on the weekend days. Shame the rest will have to be followed at work.
As a South African I’m free to enjoy the series on it’s own merits. My wife is English so I do have to support England (nominally at least), but believe the result will be 3-0 to the Aussies. They will want their revenge properly.
Peter – forgot to ask : how can you give the Poms even one?
Paul,
Like you I married an English girl, so I had to give them one. If I predicted a series whitewash – and it happened – I’d be sleeping on the couch!
Peter,
Hate to say it (what with being English and all) but I can see the Aussie’s winning the ashes 3-1 also.
You guys got off to a flyer today. We need to come back strong tomorrow/later today..
Peter,
Although I don’t think the Brisbane Test is dead and buried just yet (every chance of a draw), it is going to be so tough for us to retain the Ashes in Australia. I honestly can’t see us winning one. It is hard to pick a weakness in the old ‘Baggy Greens’ and I think we may miss Simon Jones. He was superb last time. Although I’m a quarter Australian, so I might just claim I’ve been supporting you guys all along!!!
“Harmisson the villain in Brisbane due to his lack of control!!”…..don’t you just hate it when your right!
Mind you all credit to Ricky Ponting..a great knock…even if he does look like George W Bush!
Andrew – I did think of your comment when ‘GBH’ sprayed the first ball to second slip. Well Done!
I’ll give the Poms a Sydney dead rubber…
The blokes that cloned Dolly the Sheep should get working on 11 Flintoff’s. He’s brilliant…
I think that we (england) will scrape a draw (2:2) and take the ashes back home. You are right though about the the only way to follow live cricket is over the radio with radio 4s Test Match Special it’s great, better than TV. However I am not in the UK or OZ but in New zealand so i will have to go down the pub and watch the test there. Oh well some one has to do it.
So why hasn’t Ponting enforced the follow on? Please don’t say you guys have still got mental scars from Ian Botham!!
I’m still convinced that we – England – will strike back at Adelaide, providing GBH somehow finds his form.
The series? I’d rather not make a prediction, although if GBH is still bowling crap in the 2nd Test then we’ve had it! I do predict that Aussie batsmen will have problems with Monty Panesar though.
Nick, we just want to tire the Pom bowlers and mentally disintegrate them
Ben – so it’s not all about the extra money from gate receipts and shares in the bars at the Gabba then?
Just hold your horses. Warnie’s shoulder will pop if he gets any more workload, and Glenn McGrath may yet slip on an acorn.
England are notoriously bad starters overseas, and they really have not had sufficient warm up. Giles and Anderson haven’t bowled for a year, Flintoff has been out for months after surgery, Hoggard hasn’t played because they don’t pick him in the one-dayers, and Harmy was dropped in the ICC Trophy, then missed the next games through injury. So really England have a bowling attack that has had next to no match practice. They better get it together quickly. At this rate, Bulgaria’s cricket team would put them to the sword.
Cricket???
I’ve been caught up in the weekly frenzy of the All Blacks playing rugby, and such great rugby
Okay, I’ll have to redirect my attention … and think about how to explain cricket to my Belgian bloke.
Perhaps the best crickety-smartypantsy-graphic shown so far:
First, they show McGrath’s first over in that special fancy pants thing they do where they can show where the ball went each time.
THEN they show the Harmison debacle. I swear, looked like a fricken fireworks display.
I rest my case.
Aussies 3-1.
although i’d like to congratulate you Peter on predicting Adelaaid eot be a draw….I’m also quite worried just how good you are at this…and its really IS going to be 3-1 to the ex cons! (though on that note….I actually felt a tinge of pride the other day when I found out that a relative way down the line in ye olden days got transported to Oz for 14 years….funny how we brits find pride in wierd things!