Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes.
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John I
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 20:13:29

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Steve Brooks wrote:

> 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.
> 

Didn't both teams play under the same sky?

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