James McKeown
England Show Australia How it is Done
August 2nd 2010 03:00
In recent posts I have got stuck into England saying that they will be no match for Australia in the up coming Ashes tour. However, recent performances against Pakistan have shown that they are more than capable of beating Australia.
Pakistan who drew the two Test series with Australia 1-1 have been comprehensivly beaten by England. This is the best yeard stick to which you judge two rivals with out playing one another, for them to play the same opposition in a short space of time.
While I do think that England are now able to beat Australia I still come back to the fact that playing in Australia is totally different to playing in england. Conditions in England are more friendly to bowlers and in Australia it is alot harder to bowl teams out twice.
Although on current form and results you would have to say that England are by far the more threatening of the bowling attacks and their batsmen could all benfiet from friendly batting conditions in Australia. this will make for an interesting series one hopes but still I can only see one result. Australia winning
Pakistan who drew the two Test series with Australia 1-1 have been comprehensivly beaten by England. This is the best yeard stick to which you judge two rivals with out playing one another, for them to play the same opposition in a short space of time.
While I do think that England are now able to beat Australia I still come back to the fact that playing in Australia is totally different to playing in england. Conditions in England are more friendly to bowlers and in Australia it is alot harder to bowl teams out twice.
Although on current form and results you would have to say that England are by far the more threatening of the bowling attacks and their batsmen could all benfiet from friendly batting conditions in Australia. this will make for an interesting series one hopes but still I can only see one result. Australia winning
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