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<blockquote data-quote="An Tarbh" data-source="post: 96159"><p>Not too sure about Cook, he has a lot of technical issues to sort out in his game before he can claim to be a decent opening batsman, but should be given ample opportunity to address that by 2009 as Trescothick's head doesn't seem to be in the right place. </p><p></p><p>Agree though on Monty and Pietersen. </p><p></p><p>It'll certainly be an ageing Aussie lineup if many of the non retired faces are still around. </p><p></p><p>This series has shown how far ahead of the pack Australia are and also showed that when Australia played so badly and Ponting captained so poorly that they only lost by a minimal margin at Edgbaston and England were struggling with that small run chase at Nottingham. So England may have won but it was never going to be by a commanding margin, still doesn't take away from it though. </p><p></p><p>England couldn't afford to lose any key players for this series to even be a contest, they lost 3 for the whole series and various players throughout, that just compounded the margin of defeat. </p><p></p><p>Nothing like a defeat though to spur a team on and no team has done that better than this current Australian outfit and worryingly for England the defeat in England might spur them on again in 2009.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="An Tarbh, post: 96159"] Not too sure about Cook, he has a lot of technical issues to sort out in his game before he can claim to be a decent opening batsman, but should be given ample opportunity to address that by 2009 as Trescothick's head doesn't seem to be in the right place. Agree though on Monty and Pietersen. It'll certainly be an ageing Aussie lineup if many of the non retired faces are still around. This series has shown how far ahead of the pack Australia are and also showed that when Australia played so badly and Ponting captained so poorly that they only lost by a minimal margin at Edgbaston and England were struggling with that small run chase at Nottingham. So England may have won but it was never going to be by a commanding margin, still doesn't take away from it though. England couldn't afford to lose any key players for this series to even be a contest, they lost 3 for the whole series and various players throughout, that just compounded the margin of defeat. Nothing like a defeat though to spur a team on and no team has done that better than this current Australian outfit and worryingly for England the defeat in England might spur them on again in 2009. [/QUOTE]
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