Victory!! For the Poms at least.

Once again, The Ashes were saved from taking another trip Down Under by a spectacular century from none other than ex-South African Jonathan Trott, proving once again that the best thing in the English cricket team is the South African... or should I say South Africans?

England used 4 of them to great effect in this round of The Ashes:

Andrew Strauss (Johannesburg, 1977)
Kevin Pietersen (Pietermaritzburg, 1980)
Jonathan Trott (Cape Town, 1981)
Matt Prior (Johannesburg, 1982)

In the five Tests played, the Pom batsmen made a total of 2,608 runs, of which 1048 were scored by South Africans. That's a whopping 40.18% of the runs.

Wow.

I'll work out some more stats later, but first I need to do some research on the games and do some calculations and things.

But anyway, well done to the Poms for giving the Aussies carrots. They comprehensively and savagely thrashed them 2-1. Australia will look at this series and realise that it was mostly the lack of wickets that cost them. Only taking twenty English wickets in a match once, compared to England having done that twice, which also happens to be what the score was.

Therefore, to win a Test match, I have narrowed it down to these most important points:

1: Make more runs than your opposition - you can't lose if they're behind you (See point 2 and 3).
2: Take 20 wickets - your opposition can't score more runs than you if they're not batting (see point 1 and 3).
3: Don't concede unnecessary runs (See point 1 and 2).


There has never been a series like this where such a large percentage of the world was against the Aussies. Even the entire population of China was against them, which already makes up 80% of the world's population.

Now that England have done the world a favour by making South Africa the number one ranked Test team in the world (although, if you asked me, I'd tell you that we did it all on our own).

However, I'm looking forward to when the South African B side tours South Africa at the end of the year. Should be a cracker of a tour. South Africans have shown that they enjoy kicking the top ranked teams off their spots, so lets see if we'll be able to kick ourselves off the top. Perhaps Jacques Rudolph will make an appearance against us this summer? When England play against South Africa later this year, it will most probably be the most South Africans taking part in the same game of cricket since isolation.