Congratulations to the English cricket team for their well-deserved victory ovre South Africa. It further confirmed the belief that England are indeed a quality team and one of the best-suited to challenge Australia along with India.
The victory was not without hiccups however. Harmisson's form is a big worry. One hopes he does not turn out to be a one-season wonder. Otherwise I will have to eat my words that I had written in an earlier post. The middle order was inconsistent to say the least. I have serious reservations about Robert Key as an international #3 and Vaughan, Thorpe and Flintoff had 2 very good innings and very little else. Luckily the openers (Strauss in particular) had done so much of the hard work and 1 of the middle order players usually fired so it didn't matter except in Cape Town.
Jones was also not at his best (actually both Jones were not at their best). Giles did a fair job. All in all, it was a ard fought victory - they did not really demolish South Africa but played well at crucial times and did just enough to win.
Id still go 3-1 to the Aussies for the Ashes but England are improving their chances all the time
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