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Five reasons why England can regain the Ashes this summer

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Despite being whitewashed in Australia, England are just 3.35 on Betfair to regain the Ashes. The reason for the rather short price, beyond patriotic punting, is that Australia have lost some big names while Andrew Strauss’ men are much harder to beat at home. Here are five reasons to be optimistic:

1. Since Australia last won the Ashes away from home in 2001, England have contested 15 home series. Of those they have won ten, drawn three and lost just two, boasting an aggregate test score of 30-8.

2. That contrasts with England’s poor form prior to Australia’s last win here in 2001. Ahead of that, England had won just six of the last 15 series they had hosted and had a negative aggregate test score of 18-20.

3. Prior to the last six Ashes series, Australia had won at least four of their previous five test series. This year they arrive in nowhere near as convincing

Posted: July 1st, 2009 by Michael Lintorn | 2 Comments comment

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Five reasons why England won’t lose to India in Chennai

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England bravely decided to travel back to India for the two-test series against India and the players will kindly donate half of their match fees to victims of the Mumbai terror attacks. Here are five reasons why England will receive good karma from that gesture and will avoid defeat in the opening test:

1. India have won the opening test in just one of their last seven series and have failed to open with victory in any of their last four.

2. England have lost the first test in just two of their last six series and are unbeaten in their last three openers against India, losing just two of the last seven.

3. England have lost just one of the four tests they have contested in Chennai since 1977. India’s last three tests in Chennai have all finished as draws.

Posted: December 10th, 2008 by Michael Lintorn | Add Comment comment

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England 33/1 to win ODI series after going 3-0 down

Improvement is not enough after light hands India D/L win

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England delivered their best performance yet in India but it still wasn’t enough to earn victory after bad light stopped play, handing the hosts a sixteen-run win by the Duckworth-Lewis method.

The third straight loss means that England now need to win all four remaining ODIs to win the series and Bet365 have lengthened odds on that improbable recovery taking place to 33/1, while Ladbrokes are refusing to completely write Kevin Pietersen’s side off, instead placing them at 16/1.

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Posted: November 20th, 2008 by Michael Lintorn | Add Comment comment

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Five reasons to be upbeat about England’s chances of winning the series in India

Even though they are already about to lose ODI number one

England look almost certain to lose the first ODI in India but fear not, here at chickendinner we have uncovered five reasons why all hope is not yet lost:

1. England won a ODI series against India last year
It’s little over a year since England last clashed with India in a seven-game ODI series and on that occasion they were 4-3 victors. What made that achievement even more impressive was that India arrived on a great run of form having already beaten the West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and South Africa.

2. New captains fare well against India
England’s last two permanent one-day captains Michael Vaughan and Paul Collingwood were victorious in their first one day international series against India, while Vaughan’s predecessor Nasser Hussain led a comeback to salvage a 3-3 draw from a series that England were trailing 3-1 with two to play the first time he encountered India after taking over as captain.

3. India don’t have that great a home record against England
A lot of talk in the build-up to this series has been about the fact England haven’t won a series in India since 1985 but that negates to mention the fact India’s success two years ago marked their first home series win over England since 1982. In fact, if you take the aggregate score of England’s last four one-on-one ODI series in India then the hosts narrowly lead 12-11, which is hardly the massive home advantage that has been implied.

Posted: November 14th, 2008 by Michael Lintorn | 2 Comments comment