Comments on: Memo to the sky commentary team

By: Lou

Lou — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:19:02 +0000

I have heard some of the more outrageous stuff on Sky. It is obvious that they believe it is only McGrath and Warne that stopped them from winning every series against Australia since, well forever really and now it is theirs to lose.

Willis for one has been dismissive of the Oz team. He thinks Siddle is crap, well actually he seems to think everyone bar Punter and Johnson are crap. It sounds like he is speaking about Bangladesh the way he is going on. Nasser isn’t much better.

Botham is always incredibly optimistic anyway.

I’ve never heard them quite this bad and I am used to it as each May win against a lesser side at home usually makes them fairly bombastic.

By: Byron

Byron — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:52:56 +0000

You certainly right, England’s not South Africa. England are rubbish. England lost the home series to SA 2-1 last year and I reckon England are gonna get ploughed by this young exciting Aussie team. Flintoff is overrated and Strauss is gonna crack under pressure as he will be coming up against a REAL world class side. Mind you Australia can be beaten like the way India and South Africa showed the cricketing world, but I don’t think England have the bottle to pull it off. The West Indies don’t count really, only if there were millions of $$$ offered then we’d see a completely different performance from the islanders.

My prediction: Australia 3 – 0 with rain winning the other two

By: Dhananjay Mhatre

Dhananjay Mhatre — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:34:34 +0000

“This was my attempt at educating them. ”
Why hammer your head on a steel gilted rock?

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Australia’s 2009 Ashes Team « Ducking Beamers: A Cricket Blog — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:35:08 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:36:21 +0000

Alok, Monty doesn’t try to take wickets, he tries to “hit the right areas”, and Australia’s part-timers will probably take more than him.

By: Alok

Alok — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:05:53 +0000

Couple of quibbles.

South Africa is not England – Deck Hitters are shit if they can’t get swing or reverse swing going…

Unlike Paul Harris, Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar do try to take wickets once in a while…

Still… my money is on a 2-1 win for Australia, 1 match will be drawn because of the rain, and another will be a high-scoring bore draw.

By: achettup

achettup — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:38:59 +0000

“Australia don’t need to pick 5 bowlers to win the Ashes, they just beat a better team with 3 bowlers and Andrew McDonald. ”

Thats an unnecessary low blow. Its bad enough that in his short test career Bonnie has tasted defeat in 25% of his matches, reducing that to 11% is ludicrous and embarrassing even for England. And you’re giving the poor guy high hopes, I’m betting on Symond’s nth comeback.