I have a question for you from the transplanted Englishman in the house. Since it's a bit hard to follow his beloved cricket in detail over here, he's wondering what your opinion is on why England are suddenly showing so much improvement.
I don't think it's that sudden. The Hussain/Fletcher alliance was the major one--the latter bringing proper professional preparation to games, the former (the best English Captain since Jardine) destroying the English will-to-lose. Vaughan has come in with the defeatism, uhhr, defeated. He has some young players who've simply never got used to being beaten which makes for a much better attitude and spirit.
But they've also been lucky in a few players coming through together, and in not getting as many injuries as previously (though I hope Jones is fit for the Tests).
THe problem now is we're on a high. But there's two months till the first Test, so we have yet more and more idiotic one-dayers. By the time the series starts, Harmo, Tresco and everyone else-o will be out of form.
Or rolling to victory on the bandwagon of successive roo-whippings..another thing is that we've started to be extreme. Remember when we scored 500-plus in every test in a summer? That's what the Aussies used to do to everyone else. Go for annihilation. If you manage it once, the impact will help you repeat it, and once you've wrecked a decent team others begin to fear you...
Mate, we've only dominated WORLD cricket for the last decade or so- not all that long really eh ? Eventually cracks will appear in every Empire. Roll on July 21, Shane crowding the bat on a turner. Will England's latest great white (Sarf Afrikaaan) hope Petersen be smiting mighty sixes into the crowd ? Providing he's picked of course- there is the little matter of an ENGLISHMAN Ian Bell in the way !!!!
Come on, you Poms have been waiting 15 long years for 5 minutes in the sun, and that is only after waiting for some of our present superstars to age a little.
Still be 3-1 in the Ashes though. Good luck NEXT time around.
Funny how the Aussies like to mention the birthplaces of non-English 'Englishmen'. But when Andy Symonds is smiting sixes into the crowd, does anyone mention HIS birthplace?
Andrew Symonds is of course a drunken reprobate who has set a bad example to Aussie cricket. Or has he ?? He was born in Birmingham, West Midlands. Isn't that the home of the Wolves footie club and appalling culinary tastes like Black pudding ????
Black pudding is fantastic, especially for hangover breakfasts with runny fried eggs.
I used to enjoy Black Pudding in England (Dorking) but was told quite graphically what is in them. And i have never touched it since.
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