The Ashes

Looks like we're in for another cracking summer of cricket if this first test is anything to go by freak.

Congrats on the win. We'll be back next test.

good cricket from both teams at various points during the first test, i can see it being a close series.

we needed that drubbing in Oz last time to pull the trigger on a number of players who were well past their best, Pietersen included.

We need to drop Watson once and for all.

Order is restored.

1-1 with three to play.

i'm fairly sure england can't play as badly as that again even if they tried to.

Aussies wont lose another game this series.

hahaha, don't get ahead of yourself fella.

rogers, vogues, nevill, lyon and hazelwood are long way from hayden, ponting, gilchrist, warne and mcgrath.

Still better than what England can put up lol.

at risk of speaking too soon........

didn't i warn you about speaking too soon?

Lmao, We're just making the game interesting.

sometimes you just have to give the colonists an old fashioned thrashing to keep them in line

That was a spanking. 2 more to go.

33-7 off 9 overs?

oh dear, not quite the team you thought you were are you?

We got destroyed. Broad is a beast.

Too much 20/20 and one day cricket on wickets designed to make it as easy as possible to slog it out of the park.

The Aussies have demonstrated nowhere near the concentration or technique required to be successful on a track that offers anything at all to the bowlers. Frankly, they've looked like they've never seen a seaming ball before in the last two tests.

Congrats on the win. You were clearly the better team.

The Oval is usually a hard & flat pitch, even your lot might be able to bat on it

Usually the sort of pitch Mitchell Johnson would look forward to bowling on as well I should think.