Posts Tagged "Ashes"

Australia have selected a strong team of seam bowlers to contest the Ashes in the UK. You can judge this by who has been left out.

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Fans and the media are questioning the Australian team for the upcoming Ashes tour, with plenty of suggestions regarding Australia’s worst Ashes tourists.

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Australian Test spinner Nathan Lyon says young left-arm orthodox spinner Ashton Agar and Pakistani refugee Fawad Ahmed are his two tips to get a late call up into the Ashes squad if selectors decide to add a second specialist spinner.

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Cricket Australia expects paceman Ryan Harris to be fit for the Ashes series in England.

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Steve Waugh is backing Australia’s unfancied Ashes tourists to repeat the heroic feats of his 1989 “worst-ever” comrades and return home from England with Test cricket’s famous urn.

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Former Australian cricket captain and top-order linchpin Mark Taylor says he’s not against the inclusion of 35-year-old bolter Chris Rogers in the Ashes squad, but is worried by the dearth of young batsmen.

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The stand alone representative matches this week and recently released international rugby league calendar of post-world cup fixtures have mostly satisfied fans, except for one minor detail.

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England’s sports fans are known as some of the world’s most committed travelers. Whether it’s the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand or even just Ricky Hatton in a boxing fixture in Las Vegas, you can guarantee that they will be there in large numbers.

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England cricket officials have defended the crammed scheduling of the Ashes amid concerns it will result in the iconic series losing some of its magic.

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Administrators in England and Australia have been warned by Wisden editor Lawrence Booth that the prospect of three Ashes series in two years could mean “a little of the magic will be lost”.

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Originally this was going to be an article on the squad to take to the Mother Country to take the urn, but it seems my fellow Roarers have gone to the well many times with that idea.

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Both the English and Australian teams are going through interesting stages, with both teams having ups and downs in series so far this summer.

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England coach Andy Flower admits his players will need to show significant improvement from their drawn series against New Zealand if they are to retain the Ashes against Australia this year.

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Roarers, we need to stop the witch hunt against the National Selection Panel and Cricket Australia. Yes, they have made some blunders, but you see, its not all their fault.

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Recently The Roar forums have seen a plethora of Ashes XIs as fans strive to find a way through the quagmire that Australian cricket has found itself in following the recent drubbing in the subcontinent.

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The Ashes is less than four months away and England are red hot favourites to retain the famous urn while Australia are rank outsiders.

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Cricket years featuring an Ashes series are the best cricketing years. Years featuring two Ashes series, well those are just better than Bradman.

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Australia have been absolutely destroyed by India. But let’s face it, nobody wins there, the pitches are unfavourable, there’s no DRS and the batsman are trained to bat against quality spin.

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A couple of days after the Australian summer finished, I wrote an article stating the Aussie selectors must go for experience when selecting the Ashes squad, especially after the retirements of greats Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey.

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Former England cricketer Angus Fraser says less than four months out from the Ashes it’s reassuring to see England’s greatest rivals “getting stuffed by India”.

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