Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes. To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 20:15:19 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape "Steve Brooks" wrote in news:KfkVe.4253$Q%2.3118@newsfe1-win.ntli.net: > 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. > OOh the whinging I have heard from the convicts. The umpires wear biased against us, the pitches were bad, the ball had magnets in,(I kid you not,) England broke the rules with their substitution. It's rather ironic that considering how much they call us moaners. The Aussies should never have taken the light when they did, it was much better than when we came off. It was purely bad captaincy they had to win the match and would have known that the weather forecasts were all for rainy spells over the next few days. I heard no end say the English were "gutless" coming off when they did but lets face it weather always has been part of the game and you wouldn't see any Ozzies saying "c'mon chaps lets stay out and possibly loose the series in this poor light" if they were in the same position. They have to face up to the fact that if it wasn't for the weather and that man Warne the series could easily have been 3-1 at the end. When McGrath and Warne go the Aussies look decidedly light in the bowling department. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .