Official Ashes thread

rotters · 6 Jul 2013 at 15:59

Squad was announced for the first of the tests today:

England squad: Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire), Kevin Pietersen (Surrey), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Matt Prior (Sussex, wk), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), Steven Finn (Middlesex), James Anderson (Lancashire), Graham Onions (Durham).

The Ashes: England v Australia
July

10-14 1st Test, Trent Bridge

18-22 2nd Test, Lord's

August

1-5 3rd Test, Old Trafford

9-13 4th Test, Chester-le-Street

21-25 5th Test, The Oval

Really looking forward to this, love the ashes, but with British sport being on a high from the lions tour win...and the Aussies are reeling from changes in management and dropping players for not doing homework and punching out it will certainly be an interesting Ashes.

Hope to keep this thread updated.

rotters

Cosimo · 8 Jul 2013 at 09:09

England v Australia Test/T20/ODI Series *** Spoilers ***

Fixtures

Wed 10-14 July - 1st Investec Ashes Test, Trent Bridge
Thu 18-22 July - 2nd Investec Ashes Test, Lord’s
Thu 1-5 Aug - 3rd Investec Ashes Test, Old Trafford
Fri 9-13 Aug - 4th Investec Ashes Test, Emirates Durham ICG
Wed 21-25 Aug - 5th Investec Ashes Test, Kia Oval

Thu 29 Aug - 1st NatWest International T20 (f), The Ageas Bowl
Sat 31 Aug - 2nd NatWest International T20 Emirates Durham ICG

Fri 6 Sept - 1st NatWest Series ODI, Headingley Carnegie
Sun 8 Sept - 2nd NatWest Series ODI, Old Trafford
Wed 11 Sept - 3rd NatWest Series ODI (D/N), Edgbaston
Sat 14 Sept - 4th NatWest Series ODI, SWALEC Stadium
Mon 16 Sept - 5th NatWest Series ODI (D/N), The Ageas Bowl

Coverage

Sky Sports 1, Test Match Special commentary on BBC 5 live sports extra, BBC Radio 4 Long Wave and online.

Disco Boy · 8 Jul 2013 at 13:20

Without sky, is there any way of watching the ashes?

daver · 8 Jul 2013 at 13:37

In the pub? Sky have that Now TV thing where you can pay for internet streams without having sky, but it seems terribly expensive, like £10 for a day.

Sky Ashes HD is available as part of the sports package on all the other platforms as well AFAIK

Highlights are on Channel 5

platypus · 8 Jul 2013 at 14:01

Have tickets to day 3 and 4 at Chester-Le-Street \o/, am hoping that the series will really be hotting up by then

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Yas786 · 8 Jul 2013 at 14:31

Looking forward to a good Test/Ashes series. Hopefully the weather will hold out and get some good batting and bowling in.

Dont think the Aussies will win the Ashes back, England still looking very strong both batting and bowling and also playing at home also helps massively.

Whereas the Aussies with their indiscipline ie Warner back in the Champs trophy and the sacking of Mickey Arthur hasnt helped their cause. Plus the Aussie captain Clarke has a bad back although hes made a full recovery but it could always flare up.

Reckon it will 4-1 series win for England.

HangTime · 9 Jul 2013 at 00:06

Dressing room wall, anyone?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/23224877

rotters · 9 Jul 2013 at 00:34

uh hum....hehe

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18525357

Disco Boy · 9 Jul 2013 at 10:27

daver said:
In the pub? Sky have that Now TV thing where you can pay for internet streams without having sky, but it seems terribly expensive, like £10 for a day.

Sky Ashes HD is available as part of the sports package on all the other platforms as well AFAIK

Highlights are on Channel 5

Sadly, I can't go to the pub for the whole afternoon for days at a time

Highlights it is I guess...

daver · 9 Jul 2013 at 10:47

Well...if you did happen to discover you suddenly lived in mainland Europe or South America it is being streamed for free on Youtube.

Disco Boy · 9 Jul 2013 at 12:01

daver said:
Well...if you did happen to discover you suddenly lived in mainland Europe or South America it is being streamed for free on Youtube.

I see... Thanks =]

Jimbeam3678 · 9 Jul 2013 at 22:46

I for one can't wait for this!!

Pigeon_Killer · 9 Jul 2013 at 22:51

Not followed cricket for a while, how good are the current Aussie team?

rotters · 9 Jul 2013 at 23:44

lots and lots of issues since ponting stepped down. 2 players sent home from india for not completing homework which was "how could we improve :bowling, batting, fielding". then David Warner punched joe root during the one day games. http://news.sky.com/story/1102517/david-warner-punched-englands-joe-root

then they sacked their coach and replaced him with an aussie.

So all in all they havent had the best run upto the ashes...but they are fighters and it could be a close run thing if we dont concentrate and go around thinking we've already won the little urn!

Monkeymatt · 10 Jul 2013 at 10:35

England win the toss and are going to have a bat. Root is opening the batting with Bairstow in at 6 and Finn picked ahead of Bresnan.

Cosimo · 10 Jul 2013 at 10:38

England: A Cook (capt), J Root, J Trott, K Pietersen, I Bell, J Bairstow, M Prior, S Broad, G Swann, S Finn, J Anderson.

Australia: S Watson, C Rogers, E Cowan, M Clarke (capt), P Hughes, S Smith, B Haddin, P Siddle, J Pattinson, M Starc, A Agar.

England win the toss and will bat first.

rotters · 10 Jul 2013 at 11:02

Cosimo there are 2 threads now...maybe a mod could merge these threads.

Davey_Pitch · 10 Jul 2013 at 11:04

rotters said:
Cosimo there are 2 threads now...maybe a mod could merge these threads.

Yes, he can

rotters · 10 Jul 2013 at 11:05

Yup,have flagged it up to a mod.

Really enjoyed the pomp and ceremony before the game.

What's people thoughts on agar the new 19 year old for Australia? Got his baggy cap today.

rotters · 10 Jul 2013 at 11:06

Cheers Davey.

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