Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes.
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Steve Brooks
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 20:00:58

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:
> "Steve Brooks"  wrote
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>> "Kath"  wrote
>>
>>> Quite, this has been the best series I have followed in er 25+ years
>>> of listening to cricket. Even better than 81.
>>
>> There's a Mr Botham over here who disagrees.
>>
>
> This has been more closely fought with teams who have both had some
> outstanding individual performances. Yeah we all remember Headingly
> and Bob Willis steaming after Botham's heroics, but there has been
> something mythic about the way that this series has swung, the
> tenseness of a final day where both sides have had to see out the
> overs in less than ideal conditions against some wonderful bowling to
> earn the draw.
> That little urn could have gone to either team up until an hour or so
> after the lunch interval with any of the four possible results
> acheivable. How often can you say that of a test series?


It has indeed been a fine series. It's a pity that the Aussies will be able 
to claim - at least to themselves - that they were really beaten by the 
weather. It would have been even more satisfying if England could have come 
to a cunningly contrived draw over the full five days. A fully deserved win 
would have been good too.  But that never really seemed on the cards after 
the first couple of days.

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SB

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