Five wickets from a fired-up Stuart Broad gave England the upper hand as
Australia struggled to 273-8 on a seesaw opening day of the Ashes.
The home side had been reduced to 132-6 in the middle of the afternoon
before a seventh-wicket partnership of 114 between Brad Haddin and Mitchell
Johnson dragged them back into the contest.
Despite the Australian recovery I don’t think this series is going to be
much of a contest and I’m certain England are going to win comfortably, think
about it just a few months ago we, England, beat Australia 3-0 without ever
really playing our best so I don’t see how the result can be any different as
both are fielding identical sides.
I have been quite surprised at how the media in
England were surprised at how the Australians were talking themselves up ahead
of the series, of course they are going to do that they’ve lost three in a row for
first time in 30 years and are almost certainly going to lose four in a row for
the first time in over a 100 years. So of course when faced with the prospect
of this they’re are going to try and talk themselves up and try and get the
crowd on their side and try and make a contest of it.
Of course if they lose again, which they will, then it
may make them look silly, but what was everyone expecting them to do coming
into a home Ashes series say oh what’s the point we can’t win!
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