England crushes Australia to win the Ashes

At last England accomplish their long awaited dream of winning Ashes in Australia after a long journey of 24 years of struggle. England won the Ashes 3-1 and all the three games they won were by an innings which is also an amazing feat against a team like Australia. England cricket is on highs after crushing the Aussie’s.

England bowlers and batsmen showed great cricket performance in the series to help England conquer the series. Andrew Strauss is the proud skipper to guide his team to victory and also did a decent job with the bat as well. Matt Prior who performed fantastically in the series also accomplished his feat of scoring a maiden century against Australia.

Ricky Ponting will have to go through a lot of critics after an unsuccessful campaign against England in the Ashes. It would be interesting to see the approach of cricket Australia for the World Cup 2011, will Ricky Ponting still be leading his team in the World Cup after a humiliating defeat or he will be axed from the team. To know all that you will just have to wait and watch.

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India draws the test series with South Africa

India managed to keep the series equal in spite of Kallis consecutive centuries in both the innings. Kallis always kept the Proteas ahead in the game. Indian batmen didn’t give away wickets in the second innings to keep the game on the safe side. This the first time they had achieved a draw in the country even though their dream of winning the series is still a dream.

Kallis played like a true cricket legend in the whole series and also made his maiden test double ton. While on the other hand master blaster of cricket also reached to his 50^th century in international test cricket. Kallis was also adjudged with man of the match and man of the series trophies for his excellent performance with both bat and ball in the series.

India is now left with a last task in hand before the World Cup 2011, the ODI series between India and South Africa. Both the teams are on high after a successful test campaign and would be looking forward to clinch the ODI series as well. We will have to wait and watch who will emerge as a winner in the last series before World Cup 2011.

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