Cricket - The Ashes?

Question

Can the England cricket team turn the series around? I know its ealy on in the Ashes, but going by that display it dosnt look to promising does it?

Corvinus, did you know?
POM derives from the below, so that would mean all Aussies!!!

A devolution of “Prisoner of His/Her Majesty” or “POHM”
An acronym for “Prisoner of Mother England

Answer 1

I think playing out in Australia is more intimidating than anywhere else in the world, and it takes a truely herculean effort to win matches there, let alone series. All but the greats succumb to the crowd, let alone the talent of the players, and to be fair, they still are the best team in the world bar none.
England are desevedly ranked number two atm, but if they want to get something out of this series they will need all 11 players to play out of their skins for five days in a row.
I actually think they can do it, despite what most people think.
Winning the series is definately beyond such a young team. But winning a game is not. I am predicting 3-1. I actually thought this game would be drawn and it would be 2-1, but England couldn't handle the pressure and expectation for the first 2 1/2 days. If they had of played like day three for all five days, they might - might, have had half a chance. Once again their best hope is Sydney, where conditions are most similar to English pitches...

BTW - I have a degree in history, you're right about he acronym, although it is your second choice. POME. ie why Aussies pronounce it POMM-EE. Some prisoners in colonial NSW even had POME printed on the breast of their jackets. However the reason why we use it as a (now friendly banter) joking insult is because the free settlers used to taunt new convict arrivals for being prisoners. Every time I hear the Barmy Army chanting "you all live in a convict colony" etc. I have to laugh as a) all the convicts were English, and b) less than 10% of the people who migrated to Australia between 1788 and 1871 (ie the "convict" period) were actually convicts, and half of those were actually just sent down for wanting Ireland to be independant (hardly a serious crime) so most of us aren't related to convicts but free settlers.... Keep it up though, the songs add great atmosphere....

Answer 2

The series is named after an article published in an English newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after the match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time. The article stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media then dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to regain The Ashes. During that tour in Australia, a small terracotta urn was presented as a gift to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a bail.

Answer 3

Yes, England can recover but only if we field the best players. Monty Panesar is our best bowler and he was left out in favour of Ashley Giles, because of his superior batting ability?

The fact is that, first and foremost, we must bowl Australia out, twice. Their most feared bowler is a spinner. Warne plays whatever the condition of the pitch and it pays off for Australia.

In the first test Match our second innings was crucial and it proved what a poor decision maker Ponting is. He should never have given the England players the chance to recover batting form, which they have, by refusing to impose the follow on, and he does not react well under pressure.

The Adelaide test will be a different type of match, better suited to us and I expect England to rally, at least a draw.

ADDED 28/11: Vakayil has a point but remember that a drawn series means that England retains the Ashes. Australia has to win one more Test than England. One win for England and the rest of the series drawn will be sufficient.

Answer 4

In my opinion, the Aussies will have to have some injuries to lose the series.

That's why Ponting didn't enforce the follow-on. To give McGrath and Warne a break from bowling to keep them as fresh as possible for the rest of the series.

Lets hope McGrath doesn't step on a ball again!

Answer 5

5-0 Australia, unless K-Pete and Fred do something.
Maybe a Vaughan return may make it 4-0 or 3-1. Nothing more for england.

Answer 6

While England Team may be able to come back and perform better, I strongly feel that they will have no chance of retaining the ashes. At the most they may be able to win one or two matches.

Answer 7

no it doesn't look good for England.
But they have some good players.
I reckon they're going to lose but that they'll also make a real fight of it.
Every match is different - just like revery innings. If England had batted first it could have been completely different.
The Aussies will be **** a hoop but let's hope Flintoff & co will do something to knock the smug grins off their faces.

Answer 8

England lost the first match in last year ashes however they were playin at home....England's chances of winning this Ashes are slim to none unless they can improve their bowling and tp order batting.

Answer 9

England seems to have the heart but not the ability to beat Australia. It's going to the Aussies in a rout, I fear.

Answer 10

ya i think they can coz they lost the first test last year by about 300 runs and they came back to win the series. but i think the selectors will have to do a better job in the coming games and axe those players tha re not performing coz i think its high time players are chosen not by their name or something like that but by their form and ability in recent games, they should consider monty penesar and liam plunkett and even to some extent sajid mohmood