So where are all the cricket pundits then?

Question

From an ashes win in 2005 with Flintoff awarded an MBE and BBC Sports Personality of the Year gong, to the worst ashes defeat since 1921.

What do the armchair experts blame?

...and why do I care?

ecioveht:

That question relates to whether England misses Vaughn. But Vaughn is one man - the last time I checked, cricket is a team game. A loss of, I dunno, 3-2 or even 4-1 might be accounted for one man not being there, but a whitewash?

So with all the gloating that England fans did in 2005, are you now sore that people are asking questions about how drastic a downturn they've taken?

Answer 1

Last time out England had the whole country behind them (after Edgbaston anyway) and played very well, while the Aussies were well below par, Warney excepted. This time out England were poor, Aussies had a third seamer infinitely better than Dizzy/Tait/Kasper in '05, all their batsmen made runs and Punter out-captained Fred. Basically instead of us being 100% and them 70% it was the other way around - and you see what happened!

Answer 2

well look over the years that australia has played tests in england and how the poms have doctored the pitches aussies dont do that i think we are the only country in the cricketing world that doesnt apart from new zealan one thing tho the poms showed there sportsmanship the way they had a guard for Justin Langer wonder if they will be asked to hand back there MBE's

Answer 3

ok clever clogs look at the answers to:- do england miss michael vaughan? and if you don't care, why bother gloatingly asking the question?
are you a jock?

Answer 4

I dont care,the best thing i heard was Shane Warne sledging an england batsman,when he said "you got an OBE and you only scored 7 runs mate" .

Answer 5

What language is this? I have cricket pundits in my backyard. They're disgusting.