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Guess who:

“You’ve got all the Poms in there as far as I can see.

There are Australians, but they’re in the studio.

I can understand (the English) getting a little bit excited if something good happens, because they haven’t had much of that. They’ve been down for about 10 years.

We need a guy like Richie over there, who is a good first-class commentator, to break it up.”

Neil Harvey

Thanks to Tony for alerting me to this Neil Harvey news.

EDIT: This is not a statement about how Australia is going to win the Ashes, this is a statement about how the so called experts on sky seem to know almost nothing about this new Australian team. This was my attempt at educating them.

Australia has not played cricket with Warne & McGrath for 2 years.

They DO have a leader of their attack, and he took 63 test wickets last year.

Phil Hughes has a wacky technique, but if you think watching footage of him make 19 in a one day game is the key to working him out you are on some crazy assed drugs.

This isn’t the first series Australia has played without Gilchrist, Warne, McGrath, Langer, and Hayden.

Australia beat South Africa in South Africa, England lost to the West Indies in the West Indies.

Peter Siddle has taken 20 wickets at 19 this year.

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

Simon Katich, and not Phil Hughes or Ricky Ponting, is the wicket England need.

Beat Mitchell Johnson, win the ashes.

Lee may not even play.

Brad Haddin will make more runs than Gilly did in ’05,  maybe quicker than Gilly did in that series.

2005 & 2006/07 mean almost nothing, this is two new teams. Australia are young, hungry, and more fragile . England are calm, well stocked and missing guns.

Forget anything that happened over 2 years ago, and start looking at the present.