The Rise of a cricketing Phoenix.
The Ashes Trophy
The most famous and the oldest rivalries of cricket are currently on show in England.
The Australia Vs England show used to be cricket to watch. This off course has been taken over by the regularity of Indo-Pak test series!! These matches take cricket viewing to next level. The generations best pyrotechnics are in view as in the case on Indo-Pak matches; the batsmen on review spell like Pontings, Martyns, Haydens, Gilchrists, also included are Langers and Clarkes pitted against Vaughans Strauss, Collingwood, Keys Flintoffs. The bowlers one might want to look are Warne, McGrath, Gillespie, Lee Harmison, Flintoff, Hoggard.
The dream of watching the best players currently playing will be on view in October in Australia when Australia takes on world XI.
Aussie bowlers look like going down with age but still good enough to catch England under their stringent and precise meltdown which many a batsman all over the world have experienced for a decade now home and away at that!!
The quality of cricket is expected to be good. This has been said for the past fourteen years and Australians have made mockery of all this time and again.
The records created out of the tussle between the two rivals point out to the commitment and never say die thing which sports stand for. There are some records which stand out like unconquered peaks and remain untouched, unmasked and unfathomed by time e.g. Number or runs scored in a test series 974 in five matches recorded. It was nearly 65 years back with cricket histories most consistent and explosive batsmen yet to enter the arena. They would come and go but these records are rocks of Gibraltar.
The ball of the century (Warne castling Gating) was also recorded in the Ashes test
The panache of players, playing for the Ashes is on show for the highest bidding.
Will England win the Ashes? For a mathematician will say they have half the probability. A cricket fanatic might roll on the ground laughing or just blur a big NO on your face. Someone like me will say only two guys know about that; not Ponting and Vaughan! One may be God and I wondered if Nostradamus has predicted something about the Ashes result in 2005.
Let’s see. I will try to analyze both the teams. I agree that my only qualification of doing this analysis is I am confessing to be a cricket fanatic. But cricket is a game of life for me as it is for millions around the cricketing world. What does England need to do to win the Ashes?
1. Australia plays a very intimidating brand of cricket, they intimidate themselves by each others performances and rivals by what they do and say on the field.
England needs to do the job on their hand. Don’t worry about the run rate of Australians while bowling. Believe in “One wicket will get you another”. As while batting don’t try to match it because all time great bowling (McGrath-Warne) duo will close by.
2. Play the best available eleven there is in the country no need of dragging injured players along.
3. Don’t stick to only one plane keep on experimenting. Don’t offer stereotypical setups for Australians will ground you.
4. Play conventional orthodox English cricket and play for pride. It’s been fourteen long years a generating of English players don’t know what it is to hold the Ashes
5. Players who need to raise their hands Flintoff, Hoggard, Trescothick
6. Let the approach be professional don’t give Australians a chance they will turn the table in no time. The fielding better be good don’t miss any chance of any sort of dismissal
7. Don’t invite Gilchrist to the party as he remains one of the key members with a mix rich flair, superb ability, rock hard resolve and explosive batting. Australia has not lost a test in which he has scored a century.
That was for England, Australia also can do couple of things so that they retain the ashes
1.Play like the way you guys always do. Menacing but Entertaining.
2. Some people are in shadows you need to pull them out (Martyns, Hayden and Gillespie)
3.Don’t wash your dirty clothes in the open
4.Never-say-die.
Let’s set the ball rolling. I hope may the best team win the most coveted trophy of international cricket.
Next article will be history to the ashes……
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