The Ashes takes place in Australia this year, with the first test starting on 25th November in Brisbane and the last test in Sydney ending on 7th January.

The England team has been announced already:

Andrew Strauss (c)
Alastair Cook (vc)
James Anderson
Ian Bell
Stuart Broad
Tim Bresnan
Paul Collingwood
Steven Davies (wk)
Steven Finn
Eoin Morgan
Monty Panesar
Kevin Pietersen
Matt Prior (wk)
Graeme Swann
Chris Tremlett
Jonathan Trott

The Australian team has yet to be announced. Last time down under, we lost 5-0, hopefully some payback this time, at least win a test match anyway.

Think the players to look out for for us are probably Morgan, Swann and probably Broad.

Australia Team:

Ricky Ponting (c)
Michael Clarke (vc)
Doug Bollinger
Xavier Doherty
Callum Ferguson
Brad Haddin (wk)
Ryan Harris
Nathan Hauritz
Ben Hilfenhaus
Michael Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Simon Katich
Usman Khawaja
Marcus North
Peter Siddle
Steven Smith
Shane Watson


Starts next week, 25th November.

great pace attack from the aussies there



i reckon this could be a chance for england to redeem themselves from the last tour of australia where there was a whitewash

A week later:

Brisbane result:
England: 260 (Bell 76, Cook 67; Siddle 6-54)
Australia: 481 (Hussey 195, Haddin 136; Finn 6-125)
England: 517/1d (Cook 235*, Trott 135*, Strauss 110)
Australia: 107/1 (Ponting 51*)

It was a good result after the poor first few days, only scoring 260, then letting Australia off the hook when they were 143/5 in their first innnings.

Second test starts in a few hours in Adelaide, let's hope we can start better than win this one

looking good for England - if they can get to around 50/60 runs before losing their first wicket I think they will be on for a good first innings score - however the aussies always seem to pull something out of the bag when their backs are against the wall

should be another fantastic test match

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Adelaide:
Australia: 245 (Hussey 93, Haddin 56; Anderson 4/51)
England: 620/5d (Pietersen 227, Cook 148)
Australia: 304 (Clarke 80, Watson 57; Swann 5/91)

England win by an INNINGS & 71 runs

1-0 to England, and if we win the next one in Perth on 16th December, we will retain the Ashes

The only downer is that Stuart Broad will miss the rest of the series through injury.

awesome display by England in this test - hope they wrap it up in the next one and enjoy their christmas

aussies dont even look half the team they were a few years ago - some rebuilding needs to go on I think

Starting to forget the last tour in Aus . Brilliant display.

Yesterday
Ponting's troubles seemed so far away
Now Nathan Hauritz is here to stay
McGrath and Warne were Yesterday

Suddenly
They're not half the team they used to be
Will he lose Ashes number three
Yesterday came suddenly

Why Haydos
Had to go I don't know, Langer wouldn't say
Adam Gilchrist's gone, now Ricky longs for Yesterdayyyyyy

i reckon shazad will get call up hopefully

its in the bag

Perth:
Australia: 268 (Johnson 62, Hussey 62; Anderson 3/61)
England: 187 (Bell 53, Strauss 52; Johnson 6/38)
Australia: 309 (Hussey 116, Watson 95; Tremlett 5/87)
England: 123 (Harris 6/47, Johnson 3/44)

Australia win by 267 runs


Bad defeat, but we're English, we never win anything the easy way, 1-1 with two tests to go.

Latest news is that Finn may be rested for the next test

counting chickens hunni

really hope this last test was a one off but something tells me the tide is changing

looking good to be a great series though

Woohoo what a start to boxing day....

Australia 98
England 444-5

Good chance of getting this test I say!

practically won it now woooooooooo england

Australia 98 and 169 for six. England 513

Champs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well done England!