The Ashes 2009, England vs Australia Preview
Such a lot of fuss over something so small? It’s almost time for the Ashes, the greatest test match cricket series.
The 1st test of the Ashes series gets underway at Cardiff on Wednesday July 8th and there will also be tests at Lords, Edgbaston and Headingley before we finish up at the Oval.
Let’s take a look at the squads:
England Squad: (note this is 16 man pre Ashes squad which will be whittled down to 13 for the 1st test)
Andrew Strauss, James Anderson, Ian Bell, Ravinder Bopara, Tim Bresnan , Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Andrew Flintoff, Graham Onions, Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Adil Rashid, Ryan Sidebottom, Graeme Swann
Australia Squad:
Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Stuart Clark, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, Ben Hilfenhaus, Phillip Hughes, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Simon Katich, Brett Lee, Graham Manou, Andrew McDonald, Marcus North, Peter Siddle, Shane Watson.
