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The Ashes Thread

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Who will win The Ashes?

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Wish i had put in Anderson. Whoever has Anderson will rip the floor up. Come on England. Heres hoping Collingwood, Pietersen and Flintoff get 50's each.
 
I read this post about Ponting and follow-ons as captain earlier, thought it made interesting reading. It was in response to somebody saying enforcing the follow-on is more ruthless.


This is his 58th match as captain, during which time he has been in a position to enforce the follow on 9 times. On seven occasions he has chosen to bat again and his record is:

match 7 - New Zealand - 324 lead - won
match 8 - Pakistan - 202 lead - won
match 20 - West Indies - 225 lead - won
match 31 - England - 445 lead - won
match 37 - Sri Lanka - 296 lead - won
match 54 - South Africa - 246 lead - won
match 55 - South Africa - 214 lead - won

The only two matches where he enforced the follow on were the weather effected:

match 12 - New Zealand - 326 lead - drawn
match 36 - Sri Lanka - 340 lead - won (inn + 40 runs)

You say that the ruthless thing to do is to enforce. When he had the 445 lead against England (1st test, 06/07 Ashes), he batted on to almost a 650 lead.
 
Conditions today favour the batsman... Bright, Sunny and dry. They'll be little swing with the ball and, because we're 200 odd ahead already, we can get 400 today and give them 600 to chase and 2 days to bowl at them.
 
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