2010 - ASHES - 2ND TEST

The misery of Ponting's men seems to be an unending story . Once strong in world cricket , the Australian's were not able to find their winning mantra once again , and fall to England in the second test played at Adelaid Oval . England resumed from where they left in the first test , and dominated the second test also . In the first innings once again Mike Hussey rescued the Australians with his valuable 93 and Haddin and Watson were the other contributors for Australia with their fifty plus score. Ponting's poor batting form continues and still he struggle with his bat , Australians will be in trouble with lot of new players in the fray. The second test fully belong to England and in their reply they scored a big 620 runs for loss of five wickets , thanks to the form found batsman Kevin Pietersen who scored 227 runs . Again Cook , Trott, Bell all played valuable knocks and put England in a commanding position . The 375 runs lead seems to be a hill to be climbed task for the Ponting's men and they were all out for 304 runs and lost the test with a innings to spare . As i already wrote unless Ponting find his rhythm , and able to score huge runs it will be a tough challange to him and his team to find winning ways . With this win England registered their 100th win against Australia and move one up against Australia in the Ashes series . Ponting first time in 10 year period fell below top 20 in Test batsman ranking and it shows all . With the third test going to played from 16th at Perth , the Australians will be in search for their winning habit, and may bounce back or will they surrender to this England team ? Let us wait and watch .

2010 ASHES - 1ST TEST

In the ongoing ashes series in Australia it was England who emerge in top so far. Once dominant Australians were not able to find an answer for their declining form .

In the first test at Brisbane though Australians were able to gain control of the match for first 3 days . In the first innings England made 260 runs only with Ian Bell's 76 . Siddle took 6 wickets and able gain some respect for Australians in the first innings .

Australians gave a strong reply thanks to Mike Hussey's 195 who is in good form so far in the series and the only man the Australians hope to save their matches , and Haddin's 136 .

Every one thought that the match is going to be won by the Australians , the top order batsmen of England thought other wise and while Strauss and Trott scored hundreds , Cook was unbeaten on 235 , and they scored 517 runs for 1 wicket loss .

From this the Australians were not able to recover. The depleted Australian bowling resource exposed and the first test ended in a draw.