Obligatory Ashes thread

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Well, if you had asked me earlier in the year who I supported, I would probably have said Australia. But now it is 50/50. That doesn't look like a good start for England though.

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Ja I suspect them Ashes are going back to the Aussies (even though they don't ever go to the Aussies, but you know what I mean)

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@ Odin

It isn't certain what the ashes are from. Three ideas are:

1) A ball
2) A piece of bail
3) Lord Darnley's Mother-in-law's veil

Whatever those ashes are, they don't ever stay in Australia. In fact the recent tour of Australia by the real ashes in a secure glass cage is very rare. They usually don't leave England.
A replica urn is handed to the winning team. So like Agafaster says, it is the title, not the actual ashes that matters.

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"Oh, bollox and woe is me," he muttered.


'Twas a bad day for England.

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@ Agafaster

I dunno what your blokes can do now, but it will be an uphill slog from now on, even if victory is attained. History is not on your side though, because nobody has won the Ashes from a 2-0 starting deficit.

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Well, I stand corrected. The dude on the TV must have said that England has never done it from 2-0 down. Either way, as you say it is a big ask.

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I see Monty did a good job for your boys, eh? You were right about him.

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Oy yoy yoy, the Aussies know how to bat, innit?

Gilchrist again.

I remember seeing him go on the rampage in Johannesburg in 2002 and I was impressed then. He did it again.

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Maybe you guys must recruit more South Africans before the next Ashes, if you want the little urn back  :-P