Well the tour gets under way on Friday with the first warm up match in Western Australia followed by fixture against South Australia and finally Australia A team. 3 good fixtures as warm ups before the big kick off in Brisbane on November 25th.

Speaking of Brisbane, the shield game at the Gabba the other day only lasted 2 days with some pace bowler picking up match figures of 11 for 52 on a nice green wicket!!! Another wicket in 3 weeks time please Mr Groundsman should suit England's attack nicely......

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say we are gonna retain the Ashes!
Not sure whether we're good enough to win the series outright or will scrape a draw though

I'd venture that the Aussies batting is worse than ours.

England 3 Australia 1 for me.

OUCH, that must have hurt!

Aus had SL 107-9 chasing 240 to win and then SL produced a record 10th wicket partnership to knock off the runs

Jonathan Trott is in the form of his life!!!
Only Sehwag and Tendulkar have scored more test match runs in 2010 and he averages 55 this year.

I think KP will screw his head on and knuckle down. I think he knows this is a massive series for his future role in the England team. Colly can also be relied upon to roll his sleeves up and muck in, he has done it so many times before to get England out of a hole.

Makes no sense, Watson gets them on the front foot with his aggressive style.

I fancy a drawn series or possibly the Aussies to take it 2-1.

Cool, look forward to Hughes having his technique against the short stuff severely examined again.

Callum Ferguson has been brought into their ODI squad and is slated to be next batsman in line for the Test squad. Decent player but is an Ashes series the time to be making a Test debut?? Good player though!

Eng have WA 213-6 this morning with Broad being the standout bowler.