For your convenience, if you are browsing my blog, and want to see the dates of perhaps when the next game is being played, or what time the next game is on, or when they are starting, who your team is playing next, etc, just look into this post, it's all here.
June 2009
Wed 24 - Sat 27
Sussex v Australians
11:00 local, 10:00 GMT
County Ground, Hove
July 2009
Wed 1 - Sat 4
England Lions v Australians
11:00 local, 10:00 GMT
County Ground, New Road, Worcester
Wed 8 - Sun 12
1st Test - England v Australia
11:00 local, 10:00 GMT
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Thu 16 - Mon 20
2nd Test - England v Australia
11:00 local, 10:00 GMT
Lord's, London
Fri 24 - Sun 26
Northamptonshire v Australians
11:00 local, 10:00 GMT
County Ground, Northampton
Thu 30 - Mon 3
3rd Test - England v Australia
11:00 local, 10:00 GMT
Edgbaston, Birmingham
August 2009
Fri 7 - Tue 11
4th Test - England v Australia
11:00 local, 10:00 GMT
Headingley, Leeds
Sat 15 - Sun 16
Kent v Australians
11:00 local, 10:00 GMT
St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury
Thu 20 - Mon 24
5th Test - England v Australia
11:00 local, 10:00 GMT
Kennington Oval, London
Fri 28
Only ODI - Scotland v Australia
10:45 local, 09:45 GMT
Grange Cricket Club Ground, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh
Sun 30
1st Twenty20 International - England v Australia
14:30 local, 13:30 GMT
Old Trafford, Manchester
September 2009
Tue 1 Floodlit Match
2nd Twenty20 International - England v Australia
19:00 local, 18:00 GMT
Old Trafford, Manchester
Fri 4 Floodlit Match
1st ODI - England v Australia
13:00 local, 12:00 GMT
Kennington Oval, London
Sun 6
2nd ODI - England v Australia
10:15 local, 09:15 GMT
Lord's, London
Wed 9 Floodlit Match
3rd ODI - England v Australia
14:30 local, 13:30 GMT
The Rose Bowl, Southampton
Sat 12
4th ODI - England v Australia
10:15 local, 09:15 GMT
Lord's, London
Tue 15 Floodlit Match
5th ODI - England v Australia
14:30 local, 13:30 GMT
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Thu 17 Floodlit Match
6th ODI - England v Australia
14:30 local, 13:30 GMT
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Sun 20
7th ODI - England v Australia
10:15 local, 09:15 GMT
Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street
Lots of games to play, if we aren't going to well it could become a long tour.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Australian 2009 Ashes squad announced
Today Cricket Australia’s National Selection Panel selected Australia’s 16 man touring squad for the 2009 VB Ashes tour of England.
The squad is:
Ricky Ponting (c)
Michael Clarke (vc)
Stuart Clark
Brad Haddin
Nathan Hauritz
Ben Hilfenhaus
Phillip Hughes
Michael Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Simon Katich
Brett Lee
Graham Manou
Andrew McDonald
Marcus North
Peter Siddle
Shane Watson
The surprise selection is Graham Manou. After a standout season for South Australia, the South Australian captain has received the call up after 647 runs to go with 33 dismissals in the 2008-09 Australian domestic season. Whilst his career record of 3260 runs at a mere 24.51 doesn’t look great, his solid form for his state and timing has catapulted him into the squad as back up for Haddin.
Shane Watson is subject to fitness, if he recovers from a groin strain he will be fit to play and in the squad. The surprise dropping is Andrew Symonds. No one really expected it. It has been well documented how poorly he has been performing for both Queensland and Australia recently, but everybody still expected him to be selected.
Michael Hussey has been given yet another chance, despite his long trot of poor form. Surely sooner rather than later the selectors will run out of patience with him, but that time doesn’t appear soon. Who knows, perhaps he will make century after century and surprise us all.
From the squad, I would be looking for the following team.
1. Philip Hughes
2. Simon Katich
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Michael Hussey
5. Michael Clarke
6. Shane Watson
7. Brad Haddin
8. Mitchell Johnson
9. Brett Lee
10. Peter Siddle
11. Stuart Clark
I am a big believer of picking your best side, except under some circumstances, and in this case, I’m all for it. Whilst problems lie in our lack of quality spin bowling, while we don’t have a spinner good enough to play at test level, Clarke, Katich and Symonds/North will have to do. The only problem there is Clarke and Katich are a bit injury prone, and Katich has come out himself and said he actually doesn’t like bowling. Not encouraging words from your joint-frontline spinner heading into an Ashes series.
If Watson is not fit to bowl, then he should be replaced by North. Whilst North is probably not good enough as a pure test batsmen, neither is Watson, and if North is bowling and Watson not, North offers more to the team. However if Watson is bowling, he should earn a position.
Hussey and Clarke’s position in the batting order is debatable, but I’m not going to worry about it, Clarke has been piling on the runs batting at 5, so there is no need to change. Also Johnson and Lee could be swapped, but that’s not much to worry about.
If we get a raging turner, perhaps Hauritz should be included, with Lee or Siddle’s omission. Whilst I don’t want either to be dropped, Johnson is in red hot form, and Clark is just too good to drop, one of them has to be the one to go.
Ricky Ponting (c)
Michael Clarke (vc)
Stuart Clark
Brad Haddin
Nathan Hauritz
Ben Hilfenhaus
Phillip Hughes
Michael Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Simon Katich
Brett Lee
Graham Manou
Andrew McDonald
Marcus North
Peter Siddle
Shane Watson
The surprise selection is Graham Manou. After a standout season for South Australia, the South Australian captain has received the call up after 647 runs to go with 33 dismissals in the 2008-09 Australian domestic season. Whilst his career record of 3260 runs at a mere 24.51 doesn’t look great, his solid form for his state and timing has catapulted him into the squad as back up for Haddin.
Shane Watson is subject to fitness, if he recovers from a groin strain he will be fit to play and in the squad. The surprise dropping is Andrew Symonds. No one really expected it. It has been well documented how poorly he has been performing for both Queensland and Australia recently, but everybody still expected him to be selected.
Michael Hussey has been given yet another chance, despite his long trot of poor form. Surely sooner rather than later the selectors will run out of patience with him, but that time doesn’t appear soon. Who knows, perhaps he will make century after century and surprise us all.
From the squad, I would be looking for the following team.
2. Simon Katich
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Michael Hussey
5. Michael Clarke
6. Shane Watson
7. Brad Haddin
8. Mitchell Johnson
9. Brett Lee
10. Peter Siddle
11. Stuart Clark
I am a big believer of picking your best side, except under some circumstances, and in this case, I’m all for it. Whilst problems lie in our lack of quality spin bowling, while we don’t have a spinner good enough to play at test level, Clarke, Katich and Symonds/North will have to do. The only problem there is Clarke and Katich are a bit injury prone, and Katich has come out himself and said he actually doesn’t like bowling. Not encouraging words from your joint-frontline spinner heading into an Ashes series.
If Watson is not fit to bowl, then he should be replaced by North. Whilst North is probably not good enough as a pure test batsmen, neither is Watson, and if North is bowling and Watson not, North offers more to the team. However if Watson is bowling, he should earn a position.
Hussey and Clarke’s position in the batting order is debatable, but I’m not going to worry about it, Clarke has been piling on the runs batting at 5, so there is no need to change. Also Johnson and Lee could be swapped, but that’s not much to worry about.
If we get a raging turner, perhaps Hauritz should be included, with Lee or Siddle’s omission. Whilst I don’t want either to be dropped, Johnson is in red hot form, and Clark is just too good to drop, one of them has to be the one to go.
Ashes coverage
Welcome to my Ashes coverage. I have decided that I am going to get working more and more on this blog, that has been practically ignored since my workload at school has increased. But my plan is when I knock off some school work, to get cracking on this and get it a blog with regular updates. I am going to cover the Ashes with regular articles, reviews, updates, opinions, thoughts, stats etc.
Enjoy.
I am also going to be writing about other games, series, tournaments etc, including the Twenty20 World Cup.
Enjoy.
I am also going to be writing about other games, series, tournaments etc, including the Twenty20 World Cup.
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