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Official 2015 Cricket Ashes Thread (ENG wins Ashes - Clarke to Retire!)

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Who will win the 2015 Ashes series?

  1. Australia (4 votes [100.00%])

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#1 Cobretti

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Posted 08 July 2015 - 04:46 AM

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TEST SCHEDULE:
1st Test: Jul 08 Wed - Jul 12 Sun @ Sophia Gardens - Cardiff
2nd Test: Jul 16 Thu - Jul 20 Mon @ Lord's - London
3rd Test: Jul 29 Wed - Aug 02 Sun @ Edgbaston - Birmingham
4th Test: Aug 06 Thu - Aug 10 Mon @ Trent Bridge - Nottingham
5th Test: Aug 20 Thu - Aug 24 Mon @ Kennington Ova - London

 
 
 
TEST 1 Summary:
 
England First Innings:
Runs - 430/10 (Root 134, Ballance 61, Ali 77, Stokes 52)
Wickets - Starc 5, Hazelwood 3, Lyon 2
 
Australia First Innings:
Runs - 308/10 (Rogers 95, Clarke 38, Smith 33)
Wickets - Anderson 3, Broad 2, Wood 2, Ali 2, Stokes 1
 
England Second Innings:
Runs - 289/10 (Bell 60, Root 60, Stoke 42)
Wickets - Lyon 4, Johnson 2, Starc 2, Hazelwood 2
 
Australia Second Innings:
Runs - 243/10 (Johnson 77, Warner 52)
Wickets - Broad 3, Ali 3, Wood 2, Root 2

England won by 169 runs

 

 

 

TEST 2 Summary:

 
Australia First Innings:
Runs - 566/8 dec (Smith 215, Rogers 173, Nevill 45)
Wickets - Broad 4, Root 2, Wood 1, Ali 1

 

England First Innings:
Runs - 312/10 (Cook 96, Stokes 87, Ali 39)
Wickets - Johnson 3, Hazelwood 3, Marsh 2, Starc 1, Lyon 1
 
Australia Second Innings:
Runs - 254/2 dec (Warner 83, Smith 58, Rodgers 49*)
Wickets - Ali 2

 

England Second Innings:
Runs - 103/10 (Broad 25)
Wickets - Johnson 3, Hazelwood 2, Lyon 2, Starc 1, Marsh 1 
 
Australia won by 405 runs


Edited by Cobretti, 28 July 2015 - 12:25 AM.


#2 Cobretti

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Posted 08 July 2015 - 04:57 AM

Woo pumped for this series. Hopefully England puts up a fight.

Who will win the first test and the series?

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Posted 08 July 2015 - 11:39 PM

Australia is who I have my money on. Australia's batting lineup is too deep with talent.

 

England have put on a good show for the opening day so should be a good finish brewing. 



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Posted 09 July 2015 - 12:28 AM

England sure did put on a decent score for the first day of the series.

 

Not sure they will be able to sustain that for the full game.

 

Lately what I noticed is teams that play Aus put on a good showing for 80%of the game and for a session or two they play very badly and Australia seem to step up a gear and take control of the match in that short time frame.



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Posted 12 July 2015 - 06:34 PM

Well test match 1 was a real doozy. Hopefully the Aussies can show the form they did last cricket summer and claw their way back to an Ashes win.

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Posted 13 July 2015 - 12:23 AM

Well test match 1 was a real doozy. Hopefully the Aussies can show the form they did last cricket summer and claw their way back to an Ashes win.

 

Absolute shellacking. 

 

I have faith we can turn it around with a coach like Darren

 

"Australia's coach Darren Lehmann has described England's big victory in the first Test as a "minor hiccup", and has effectively challenged the Lord's ground staff to produce a quicker pitch for the second match from Thursday."

http://www.espncrici...ory/897827.html



#7 Cobretti

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Posted 28 July 2015 - 12:34 AM

TEST 3 starts tomorrow. England better show up at least to make it worthwhile to watch.



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Posted 08 August 2015 - 06:05 AM

Clarke announces retirement after Ashes

 

Australia captain Michael Clarke has confirmed he will retire from international cricket at the end of the ongoing Ashes series.

"I'll have one more Test and that will be the end of my career," Clarke told Channel Nine after the loss. "I'm retiring from international cricket."

Clarke's change of heart following the team's dismal showing in the pivotal fourth Test means Steven Smith will lead the side to Bangladesh.

Clarke had been adamant he would keep playing for some time before this match, but another dreadful match for himself and his team has left no room for the sort of graceful home-ground exit bestowed on others.

After a three-year apprenticeship as vice-captain, Clarke replaced Ricky Ponting as captain in April 2011, and made his first Test tour as full-time leader to Sri Lanka that August.

That series was won 1-0, but it was the team's results away from home that remained a weak point throughout his tenure - winning only four of nine overseas series and suffering crushing defeats against, India, Pakistan and England.

There was also the disgrace of the "Homeworkgate" debacle in India in 2013, which led ultimately to the sacking of Mickey Arthur as coach, replaced by Darren Lehmann in June of that year.

At home Clarke's teams only lost once, to South Africa in 2012, and accomplished a 5-0 sweep of England in 2013-14.

Clarke's own batting was a key plank of his successes, but his battles with physical fitness and differences of opinion with selectors punctuated his rein and ultimately helped to wear down his run-making.

After making 12 hundreds in his first 30 matches as leader, Clarke managed only two in his last 13, and has not passed 50 in six Tests on this dual tour of the West Indies and England.

Smith has meanwhile emerged as the team's outstanding batsman, and led the Test side in three matches against India last summer when Clarke was injured.

Clarke's chronic back and hamstring problems had placed him on a collision course with the selectors at the start of last summer, when he openly defied their preference for him to play a warm-up match in Adelaide to prove his fitness to face India.

The issue was set to come to a head on November 25, the day his close friend Phillip Hughes was struck in a Sheffield Shield match at the SCG. Clarke rushed to be by Hughes' side in hospital, and he was widely lauded for his role in helping the team and the nation as all grieved the young batsman's death.

After the first Test of the summer was shifted from Brisbane to Adelaide to allow the team extra time to come to terms with the loss, Clarke shrugged off a recurrence of his back trouble to make a courageous hundred as part of an Australian win. Clarke called it the most important innings of his career; it was his last Test hundred.