not long before the ashes begin.reckon england may keep the ashes..check out www.supersoccer.co.uk for all the odds..
gonna do england to win outright 7/4
3.0 33/1
3.1 10/1

not long before the ashes begin.reckon england may keep the ashes..check out www.supersoccer.co.uk for all the odds..
gonna do england to win outright 7/4
3.0 33/1
3.1 10/1

You do know they're playing a cricket match?

You do know they're playing a cricket match?

England to win outright 7/4 is a decent shout, I wouldn't bet on those 3-0 or 3-1 results though. I reckon there will be at least 3 draws in this series. On both sides the batting is stronger than the bowling. The Aussie pitches are probably the best quality pitches in the world. Aussie groundsmen will never prepare a Test pitch with uneven bounce or which turns a lot or offers a lot to the seamers, and with the fast outfields they mean good batsmen can score lots of boundaries. But their pitches do bounce. Jimmy Anderson wasn't that effective in Australia before and he was our best bowler in England so we seem to have gone for the tall guys, Finn, Broad and Tremlett, to give the Aussies problems with the bounce. That might work but overall because their batsmen are used to their conditions, I don't reckon we've got the bowling attack to run through them.

That said I definitely don't think they've got the bowling attack to run through us, so batsmen are going to dominate. I reckon the typical game this series will be whoever wins the toss bats first, they will score 500 in the first innings, and the opposition will then get 400 in their first innings, and it will be a scramble for trying to score fast enough in the second innings to set a target that the other team will have a shot at and maybe get themselves out in the process. But at some point in the series one team will have a shocking batting collapse in one innings and that will be curtains for them, they'll lose the Test and find it hard to come back in the series.

My prediction is that this series will be 1-0 or 1-1, with 3 or 4 draws.

England to win outright 7/4 is a decent shout, I wouldn't bet on those 3-0 or 3-1 results though. I reckon there will be at least 3 draws in this series. On both sides the batting is stronger than the bowling. The Aussie pitches are probably the best quality pitches in the world. Aussie groundsmen will never prepare a Test pitch with uneven bounce or which turns a lot or offers a lot to the seamers, and with the fast outfields they mean good batsmen can score lots of boundaries. But their pitches do bounce. Jimmy Anderson wasn't that effective in Australia before and he was our best bowler in England so we seem to have gone for the tall guys, Finn, Broad and Tremlett, to give the Aussies problems with the bounce. That might work but overall because their batsmen are used to their conditions, I don't reckon we've got the bowling attack to run through them.

That said I definitely don't think they've got the bowling attack to run through us, so batsmen are going to dominate. I reckon the typical game this series will be whoever wins the toss bats first, they will score 500 in the first innings, and the opposition will then get 400 in their first innings, and it will be a scramble for trying to score fast enough in the second innings to set a target that the other team will have a shot at and maybe get themselves out in the process. But at some point in the series one team will have a shocking batting collapse in one innings and that will be curtains for them, they'll lose the Test and find it hard to come back in the series.

My prediction is that this series will be 1-0 or 1-1, with 3 or 4 draws.