Australian Cricket The Ashes, the odi world series, and so forth

[arnz 0]

Good to see despite their loss to England, and their close victory over NZ, that some young stars are willing to step up when the major contributors struggle. Eg Hodge, Tait.. while the major contributing stars throughout the series (eg Hussey, Lee, Johnson) had struggled in the 'dead rubber' games.

[arnz 0]

And whatdaya know, England wins the series on the Ducksworth/Lewis system, but overall they did deserve their victory as the Aussies were on the ropes at 8/152 in the second final. Both sides were fielding understrength teams and missing key players (eg England - Vaughan, Australia - Symonds), which did even out the contest in the best of 3 series but I guess the better team on the day won, as our selectors (Aussies) did make some pretty shocking selections for injuries as well (Eg trying to fit Watson somewhere for Clark). Congrats to England, and on their convincing victory in the first final as well.