Ashes 2009!

[Rameshjeee]

Australia are 78 for no loss chasing a record score of 546. England made 373/9d in their second innings. Trott scored century on debut.

[just4kix]

England have regained the Ashes after a huge win at the Oval.

Many congratulations to them. Australia have slipped to the 4th rank in the standings (1. SA, 2. SL 3. IND). England are now 5th.

[meetdilip]

Congrats England ..............

[Rameshjeee]

When Ponting & Hussey were fighting back, I thought that the game would go to the 5th day. But the run out Ponting was the the turning point. Even after the third man decision came, Ponting was standing still at the pitch. He couldn't believe it.Its was not the end of him but the end of an era where the Aussies dominated the world cricket.

Kudos to England. Yesterday the celebrations where as if they had won the world cup. I believe The Ashes means more to England than a World Cup.

[just4kix]

The Ashes do mean more to Aus-Eng than anything else.

- Eng and Aus are traditional enemies on every sports that they compete together
- No cricketer worth his salt would place a 50 or 20 over game above a 5-day game and hence a Test series victory means more than a 1-day series victory
- Ashes is the oldest bilateral championship
- It is rich with history
- No other cricket contest has such keen polarization with the exception of probably IND-PAK series which is second best.

[Sid]

I am happy that Aussies lost this time.

But sad,why is India in 3 rd rank.We should have been 2 nd