Posted July 6, 201510 yr On Wednesday sees the start of the 2015 Ashes between Australia and England. England Squad for the First Test: Alastair Cook © Joe Root (vc) Moeen Ali James Anderson Gary Ballance Ian Bell Stuart Broad Jos Buttler (wk) Steven Finn Adam Lyth Adil Rashid Ben Stokes Mark Wood Australia Squad: Michael Clarke © Steve Smith (vc) Brad Haddin (wk) Fawad Ahmed Pat Cummins† Josh Hazlewood Mitchell Johnson Nathan Lyon Mitchell Marsh Shaun Marsh Peter Nevill (wk) Chris Rogers Peter Siddle Mitchell Starc Adam Voges David Warner Shane Watson Test Matches: 1st Test (8-12 July)- Sophia Gardens, Cardiff 2nd Test (16-20 July)- Lords, London 3rd Test (29 July- 2 August)- Edgbaston, Birmingham 4th Test (6-10 August)- Trent Bridge, Nottingham 5th Test (20-24 August)- The Oval, London Who do you think will win The Ashes? Live coverage of The Ashes will on Sky Sports Ashes and highlights will be on Channel 5.
July 8, 201510 yr Author At the moment, on Day 1 of the Ashes. England are 280-5 with Joe Root scoring the first century of the Ashes with a knock of 134 and he's just gone. Anyone at all gonna be watching this?
July 8, 201510 yr I won't watch much as I'm at work, but I will be following! Amazing from Root, without that partnership we could have been staring at a very poor 1st innings score. At least we've given ourselves a chance now.
July 9, 201510 yr My parents had tickets for today's play and are going on Saturday too. Sadly, I'm working so won't be joining them :( They had pictures taken with Vaughan, Gower and McGrath apparently! England did well today, all the pre-Ashes hope that'd they would be competitive seems to be holding true. The day belonged to Ali though, getting those two crucial wickets. Still think it will end a draw though, especially as the weather for Sunday looks horrendous.
July 10, 201510 yr Author Australia ended Day 2 on 264-5, 166 runs behind following a 95 from Chris Rogers.
July 11, 201510 yr Author England are 1-0 up following beating Australia by 169 runs. What a difference a series makes.
July 11, 201510 yr A great performance all round, a really promising start to the series. Joe Root really is a great batsman now, hopefully he can continue to develop in the next few years.
July 17, 201510 yr Author At the end of Day 2. England on 85-4 and trailing by 481 runs. Good to see highlights of the Ashes on Channel 5 at least.
July 19, 201510 yr Author What a difference a Test makes with England losing by 405 runs. It's now 1-1 all. You gotta fancy Australia to win 4-1.
August 6, 20159 yr Author A very strong morning session for England by bowling Australia out of 60 in their first innings in the fourth test at Trent Bridge, Stuart Broad took a fantastic 8-15 he also become the fifth England bowler to take 300 wickets. It is the shortest first innings in Test history. England currently 135-3.
August 6, 20159 yr What a difference a Test makes with England losing by 405 runs. It's now 1-1 all. You gotta fancy Australia to win 4-1. I think you gotta fancy England to win 4-1 now. :P England are 274-4 at the close of play. Looks like the Ashes are coming home. :D :cheer:
August 6, 20159 yr If England lose this now from the position they're in, it will be one of sports biggest ever cock-ups! Australia look shattered of confidence. Guess England will try and build up as big a lead as possible in the morning session and then try and bowl Australia out. Their first innings score was crazy, such a bottle job from their top order batsmen.
August 6, 20159 yr Remarkable to watch the Australian collapse this morning, Broad really bought it today!
August 6, 20159 yr It's interesting that most of the Australian wickets were caught in the slips. Michael Clarke is so out of nick at the moment, but their middle order looks so weak as well. The Aussies have been awful but England have been brilliant. Broad with the ball, Root with the bat and the fielding throughout has been superb.
August 7, 20159 yr Author England declared on 391-9 with a 331 run lead and now Australia are 105-0. I do miss The Ashes not being on free-to-air live TV. The 2005 Ashes was probably the greatest series with it being on Channel 4. I was certainly wrong about my prediction of how the Ashes was going to go after the Second Test. I believe England were 66-1 to win 4-1 at the end of the Second Test.
August 7, 20159 yr Author England are on the verge of regaining the Ashes with another fantastic display against Australia with Australia on 241-7 in their second innings and 93 runs behind.
August 7, 20159 yr Took a while to break through today, but the collapse eventually came. Should quite easily wrap this up tomorrow morning I'd have thought!
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