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Advantages: Bar managers get your barrels full - Flintoffs in town
Disadvantages: Just for a pot of ashes

...yourself 127 years onwards, and England and Australia contest the ashes; which is an urn about 6 inches tall, and weighs several grams. Not much to look at unless you're an undertaker. Flintoff, Oval to you O 111 My favourite phrase for watching the ashes this year is 'You muppet!' and that's while viewing England's one and only victory against the Aussies this Summer. - Now that the ...
...as the efforts of the England players were beyond woeful and I'm being generous. It all seemed to go wrong when the Prime Minister Gordon Brown was asked what he intends to do while on holiday; and he mincingly replied 'watching the cricket and tennis'. - Alarm bells shrilled out then, his aura of doom would transcend upon any hope of regaining that urn. I did pray for rain, I must confess; and there it appeared. - Brown, could have been giving helpful ... Read review

Advantages: Good Batsmen and Bowlers, Always open well, Shahid Afridi
Disadvantages: Risky Team, Weak fielding, Untrained new players, Shoaib Akhter

...bet it will be against Pakistan team. On the other hand after SriLankan team incident in lahore, The world community has shown totaly discouraging attitude towrds cricket in Pakistan. One negative aspect of this unfortunate team is the availability of exceptional standard coach. Till date no dedicated coach is avaiable to this team. Beside all this Pakistan team has played exceptional well against Austraila,England,India and Srilanka in recent ... Read review

Advantages: A tiger on paper
Disadvantages: A cat on the field

Cricket is not only considered to be sport, it is also considered a religion as well. The Indian cricket team has a huge fan base. Not only that on papers it is one of the best teams in the world consisting of probably the biggest of the names of World cricket. But when it comes to on field performances, barring a few occasions, the team has not lived up to its expectations. It is really one of the most hyped teams in the world just like the England ...
...won a team in most of the matches. It is the team effort that finally does for a team and this is the only thing that can win matches. Even though Indian team has a lot of big names but the team effort is certainly lacking and this is the only reason that despite of having big names in the list, it is not able to live up to the expectations. ... Read review

Advantages: Still the top team in the world
Disadvantages: Some weaknesses

"Bad luck you Aussies!!" I'm sure those words would have left Geoff Boycott's lips at some point over the last 5 days...but how they made England panic last night. Yes, England have gone 1-0 up after winning the second test at Lord's, but somewhere at the back of even the most optimistic of minds, they will be that nagging doubt that the Australians could easily come back and winning two of the next three tests and retain the Ashes. Damn them all! ...
...lost during the 2005 Ashes series, and very different to the team which thrashed us, and that's an understatement, 5 - 0 during the 2006/07 tour. Ponting still captains the team, but many critics say his team was adopted from Steve Waugh, with the likes of Warne, McGrath, Hayden, Gilchrist, Langer, Martyn, Gillespie all left overs from the team which began dominating world cricket over a decade ago. Now however, they have all gone, and although not ... Read review

Advantages: Stuart Law, Murali, bags of one day trophies
Disadvantages: The years of disapointment and underachievement

...you could fairly confidently back Lancs at the start of the season for each of the one-day trophies, safe in the knowledge that they would win at least one. Tragically this brilliance doesn't seem fully transferable to the four day game usually resulting in narrow underperformance in second place or the shame and humiliation of relegation. No doubt the players have been there to win the championship over recent years - Fairbrother, Law, Murali, ...
...to name but a few but all too often promising starts to the season have been thrown away. So what goes wrong. There was a time in the mid nineties when we used to lose half our team for July and August each year to test call ups and it is also true that the weather has cost us dearly over the years but overall whatever the problem something always conspires to blow it for us. Anyway I can still console myself that for all the disapointment I can ... Read review