Is it Time We Made The Ashes Like The Ryder Cup?

[Unlucky Black Cat]

The Ashes in Australia has become the cricketing equivalent of England v Scotland at football - all hype but not a contest at all. No wins in 15 or 16 tests .

Is it time to replace the Ashes down under with Australia versus a combined England/India Xl to make it competitive?

 

[PennywellPirate]

After watching England so far this Ashes series a combined India/England side (based on quality) would literally be just India versus the Aussies

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

there are no words

Well there are

As @GordonMuchallNo1Fan may say, but I’ll paraphrase

DEAR f***ing ME

 

[Mr Redknapp]

With all due respect.. naff off

 

[jcrossan]

Playing with a nine iron instead of a bat?

The Aussies would still score 400 plus

 

[hank evans]

With all due respect, India don’t need us to make it competitive

 

[Mr Redknapp]

Got enough golfers in there already

 

[Beau Peep]

GET IT IN THE BLOCK HOLE!

 

[Mr Redknapp]

GET IT IN THE BLOCK HOLE!

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[The Breen Machine]

I'm sure there's nothing McCullum would like more than making the Ashes into a golf tournament.

 

[jcrossan]

Make it more like croquet. We'd have a much better chance of winning. Bet Pope and Crawley are masters at it.

 

[Safc98]

Certainly an argument to reduce it to a Three Test Series

 

[Unlucky Black Cat]

With all due respect.. naff off

there are no words

Well there are

As @GordonMuchallNo1Fan may say, but I’ll paraphrase

DEAR f***ing ME

What's the answer though?

My Ryder Cup suggestion was tongue in cheek - but do you disagree that it's now become the equivalent of us playing the Jocks at footy? All hype on their part... but not a legitimate contest.

How are we ever going to make it competitive again down there?

 

[Johnap]

Play them here in December and January - see how they like it.

Or more Eton, Cambridge or Oxford chaps. Oh and a few chaps from the Foreign Office (overseas experience)

 

[Randy Ostrich]

No - but I'd love to see a 'Barbarians' team to take on the world Test champions.

 

[Shandy drinker]

The Ashes in Australia has become the cricketing equivalent of England v Scotland at football - all hype but not a contest at all. No wins in 15 or 16 tests .

Is it time to replace the Ashes down under with Australia versus a combined England/India Xl to make it competitive?

Ask Norman tebitt

 

[JL1985]

The Ashes in Australia is only useful for giving the Australian public a good laugh every 4 years.

 

[Aidan11]

The amount of drinking we do, I'm surprised we dont play them at darts.

 

[Reedie8610]

Just get the test players playing red ball cricket would be a start

 

[Southern Monkey]

It is quite amusing we insist on playing 5 test series away in India and especially Australia and we’re not competitive in either!

In Australia isn’t that 6 of the last 7 series that we’ve lost the first 3 tests and therefore the series? That’s unbelievably bad!