Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes.
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Steve Brooks
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 21:11:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John I wrote:
> 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?

Yes - but England only needed a draw to win the series.  Also the nature of 
the game is that an interuption at any particular moment will often be more 
of a problem to one team than the other.

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SB

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