Story Battle for The Ashes

[Highlander999]

I'm going to be doing an Ashes Tour of Australia. There will be no Warm Up Matches and no One day Series. Just the Battle for The Ashes. I will be using Cric '07 with the latest updates on 4* difficulty. Hope you enjoy.

After England successfully won back the Ashes in 2005 it is now the time for England to give the Aussies a chance to regain their pride

The first test will be at Brisbane. Squads and pitch report coming soon

 

[Jaztheman]

Good luck with this Timelord.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Good luck with this, mate.

 

[OrderDX]

good luck can't wait!

 

[surendar]

Another ashes story from you.... This time, keep the saved files secured Gud luck again for the Ashes restart :cool:

 

[Highlander999]

Gilchrist and Warne both miss First Test

Bad news for Australia. Adam Gilhrist and Shane Warne will miss the first test in Brisbane. Adam Gilchrist is expecting the arrival of his baby when the first Test starts and Warne is suffering from a calf injury. Both should be back by the Second Test in Adelaide.

Here are the two squads for this series

Warne and Gilchrist will be replaced by Hogg and Haddin for the first match. Here are the two teams for the first match:

Coming up we will have the pitch report with Ian Botham and David Gower

 

[OrderDX]

cannot wait no vaughan and no broad though?

 

[Highlander999]

Vaughan is still injured and there was no room for Broad

 

[Highlander999]

It is now time for the pitch report with Ian Botham and David Gower.

Well this is a very hard pitch. The two fast bowlers Harmison and Brett Lee will find a lot of bounce on this pitch and cause the batsmen many problems. There are already a few cracks appearing so winning the toss and batting first is what I would advise. As time goes on I think the pitch might get a bit slower but there will still be enough life in it on Day 5 to cause problems.

Andrew Flintoff has won the toss and chosen to bat first. A good decision. Play will be starting shortly

 

[tjh1989]

Looking good hopefully it will be a good match keep it up

 

[freddiw]

yea plenty of runs for england

 

[kookaburra69]

Good start mate,Hopefully England can pile on the runs.

 

[Highlander999]

Australia control first session​

England's Ashes campaign got of to a horrible first session, with Australia destroying the English lower order meeting little resistance. First to go was Strauss for only 1 run getting caught at square leg

Ian Bell then perished for a duck getting caught by the skipper Ricky Ponting

Kevin Pietersen and Alistair Cook staged a revival and got a Partnership past 50

Before Pietersen fell getting caught at second slip after making a good start

The only positive had been Alistair Cook who had played some very nice shots

He however was trapped LBW by Hogg

Collingwood then unluckily played on of the bowling of Hogg again

This meant that at Lunch on Day 1 England are 115/5

Glenn McGrath and Brad Hog have been the main strike men keeping it tight and getting wickets

England will be very disappointed about that first session after winning a good toss to win. We will be looking at where England went wrong over Lunch with Ian Botham, David Gower, Mark Nicholas and David Lloyd.

 

[OrderDX]

england in trouble but flintoff and prior could bat well causing a few problems for australia this afternoon highlander i have updated my story as well

 

[Jaztheman]

Great presentation Tom keep it up mate, onto the match situation England have started poorly but htey need a good partnership but some great bwling denied htem.