Comments on: Ashes series were already too frequent https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-series-were-already-too-frequent/2011/02/02/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-series-were-already-too-frequent/2011/02/02/#comment-31155 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:43:23 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=6019#comment-31155 Guess it made for a better headline than: ‘Just carry on as you are, basically’.

]]> By: stuart https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-series-were-already-too-frequent/2011/02/02/#comment-31154 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:27:25 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=6019#comment-31154 This isn’t really about this post but I thought I’d share Duncan Fletcher’s pre Ashes strategy which I read again in an old edition of The Guardian from September I found today: “Play Morgan and drop Cook for Ashes success”.

]]> By: glitter https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-series-were-already-too-frequent/2011/02/02/#comment-31117 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:01:14 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=6019#comment-31117 An away series is the more accessible one these days because one is at work during match time in home series. Or, doesnt it apply to Englishmen – who give up their day job during home series, perhaps?

]]> By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/ashes-series-were-already-too-frequent/2011/02/02/#comment-31116 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:48:08 +0000 http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=6019#comment-31116 So we have Ashes series in 2013, 2013/14, 2015, 2016/17, 2019, 2020/21, etc. I guess the thing I don’t understand is the bringing forward of the 2015 series from 2016 (shifting to avoid the football is the excuse). Anyway, I don’t think it is too bad…
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as long as they do actually shift back to the four year cycle after 2015 as they say they will. What would be worrying is that they might change their mind again.

Meanwhile, the ODI today has given a tremendous opportunity for more Ashes gloating. Australia lost their third wicket at 166 today, making it their best performance for two wickets in the entire Aussie summer. An Aussie win (well within their grasp) would be their 2nd highest innings score of the summer. Now that’s sophisticated gloating, that is.

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