The Ashes Tour 2009

Right then, I had been waiting for JP to make the last post since he started the thread, but he's too busy so I will take the honour instead.

For me, it was a fairly unmemorable series, with no batting performances that I would hail as classic and relatively few truly gripping passages. The personal highlight - inevitably I suppose since I have been banging the drum about the guy since 2005 - was Stuart Broad's Ashes winning spell at the Oval, which was particularly sweet in the face of all the doubts being written about him here and elsewhere.

Anyway, anyone reading this thread from the start without knowing the result must assume Australia won 5-0 because clearly, reading the posts from some of our most knowledgeable and in no way one-eyed members, England were a bunch of no good bums, led by a skipper who couldn't perform under pressure, feeble in the face of cricketing gods such as Phil "The New Bradman Until Dropped After 2 Games" Hughes, Mitchell "Worst Cricketer Of The Year Ever" Johnson, Nathan "Can't Get Picked On A Raging Tuner" Hauritz, and Brett "Can't Get Picked At All" Lee, so let's just remind ourselves of the result -

England 2 Australia 1

Whoa, hang on, how did that happen, England had that no-good Bopara in their team??? Surely Peter " Emerging Leaking Fewer Runs Than Mitchell Johnson Cricketer of the Year" Siddle could have bowled them out all the time, England's best batsman didn't even bother playing most of the series for god's sake!

Nope. I just checked and apparently that actually was the score, so congratulations to Ricky "Lost More Ashes Series Than Most" Ponting for writing his name in the history books. Gary Pratt says hi.

I think we can definitely say that! Probably Paki origin SW, but he was born in Denmark and played a bit of cricket for them. Denmark is the side that Belinda Clark scored the first and only double ton in an ODI against. (If you count women's cricket in anything).

England have had Cricketers from all over the world mate, isn't Amjad Khan a Danish or lived there or something?

The article which I read was written some time in 2005-06. India is the correct answer. But not sure if some other country has overtaken now.

South Africa?

This ashes was very important for the English supporters as the decade was not completely dominated by the Aussies. In the 90's I thought Ashes was losing it's charm as it was a complete domination by one side for more than 10 years. Now it seems to have regained it.

Edited by kirankri - 25 September 2009 at 1:47pm

I was interested the whole way through , was a fairly riveting series. However if you look at the numbers in England who viewed their Oval win as opposed to their draw in 2005 there's a massive difference. Pay/Cable TV is not a good thing at all, the Ashes in Australia was on free TV and that was an overseas series.

2005 was just unbelieveable, don't think any will get any better than that.

I will remember this Ashes for Monty's heroics at Cardiff.


Edited by zuhair_abbasi - 24 September 2009 at 7:17am

Well, sadly, I didn't get to see as much of this Ashes as I would have liked, mainly due to work and having Cricket practically every weekend.

This was a wonderful tour of England. Exciting contest between 2 reasonably good sides. Not as exciting as 2005, but not as dull as 2006/07 and I think both sides can take a lot out of their performances during the tour.
Well done to England on a wonderful Ashes triumph and to Australia for showing some good ODI form.
Sad to see Freddy go but the real find of the tour, Stuart Broad will keep the English fans excited and hopefully keep the Ashes flame alight.

Contrary to what a lot of people think I reckon this massive loss of 6-1 will be remembered. I certainly don't think a lot of people will forget that after England won the Ashes they got mauled in the ODIs and lost 6 in a row.

Was Eng-Aus ODI series important? Will be remembered? I don't know and don't care,it's individual's opinion.What I know for sure is that it will be in history books that England lost the series 6-1 while England won the Ashes 2-1.For sure 2-1 Ashes victory is sweet,but 4-3 ODI scoreline would have been much sweeter.Even Strauss told "There is a limit to Ashes goodwill".

I am sure no player in this world would like to lose even a single match.Saying we won what mattered is bit like running away from reality,that everyone does.Many Indians and Pakistanis say like no matter we win the cup or not,we need to beat the other.I have said it sometime, but deep down when India lost final against Australia in WC'03,I felt bad,victory over Pakistan in group stage did not really matter.

I don't know about that... I thought this series 'didn't matter' and the English supporters on this forum (not naming any names) 'don't care'. 

6-1 still looks pretty awful.