Blogs Any predictions for the Ashes?
May 29th, 2009 by calypsoThis has to be one of the rare Ashes Series that will be played on an level playing field with Australia still in the mode of fixing a few problems created by the ouster of its regular legends and England still trying to gain a semblance under a new captain and some very conservative cricketing thinking. The fact remains that anyone considering that Australia’s bowling has remarkably weakened with the exodus of Warne or McGrath might be delving too much into the records. Just recently, the Aussies comprehensively beat the South Africa on the Proteas’ turf itself and the likes of Mitchell Johnson, a hungry Brett Lee and Siddle could prove to be more than handful on seaming English conditions. The Poms too are smarting under a conventional but seemingly stable captaincy of Strauss who may be just the kind of calming influence that was needed after the KP fiasco that hit the national team recently.
