Ashes Fixtures 2005

[IanG]

This is the list of Internationals

13 June England v Australia Rose Bowl Int. Twenty20

NatWest Series
16 Jun England v Bangladesh The Oval
18 Jun Australia v Bangladesh Cardiff
19 Jun England v Australia Bristol
21 Jun England v Bangladesh Nottingham (D/N)
23 Jun England v Australia Durham (D/N)
25 Jun Australia v Bangladesh Manchester
26 Jun England v Bangladesh Leeds
28 Jun England v Australia Birmingham (D/N)
30 Jun Australia v Bangladesh Canterbury
2 Jul FINAL Lord's

NatWest Challenge
7 Jul England v Australia Leeds
10 Jul England v Australia Lord's
12 Jul England v Australia The Oval

Ashes Test Series
21 - 25 Jul FIRST TEST Lord's
4 - 8 Aug SECOND TEST Birmingham
11 - 15 Aug THIRD TEST Manchester
25 - 29 Aug FOURTH TEST Nottingham
8 - 12 Sept FIFTH TEST The Oval

 

[choc_soldier]

Bangladesh? :-k

Hopefully Channel 7 (or whoever gets the free to air rights) decides to show the first innings and first session this time around...

 

[Craig]

You see Bangladesh are playing two Tests before the Natwest Series and the waste of space Natwest Challenge.

 

[Anonymous]

Bangladesh? What a waste of time. You'd reckon the NatWest challenge would have been against Bangladesh and they'd have gotten India or someone to come for the tri-series.

Oh well, here comes a repeat of the invincibles...

 

[blackfriday]

bangladesh? i say we send over the academy team first and let the proper team have a good pub crawl around england.

 

[Twizzle]

my life long goal is to watch an ashes test match in England

hopefully next year

 

[Anonymous]

I'm hoping to get there next year as well Twizzle. I've always wanted to go to Lords and the oval, but unfortunately Uni will be back by the fifth test. But Lords is looking good 8)

 

[Twizzle]

hopefully see you there BB, but I'm not having a Guiness with you, they make me sick.

 

[Craig]

Bangladesh? What a waste of time. You'd reckon the NatWest challenge would have been against Bangladesh and they'd have gotten India or someone to come for the tri-series.

Oh well, here comes a repeat of the invincibles...

Well India are coming to the Natwest Challenge this year as a 'warm-up' before the ICC Champions Trophey.

 

[Anonymous]

hopefully see you there BB, but I'm not having a Guiness with you, they make me sick.

:lol:


You could have a warm beer mate.

 

[IanG]

my life long goal is to watch an ashes test match in England

hopefully next year

That's something I wouldn't mind doing myself. One ambition that I did have was to go to a World Cup game and I did that back in 1992 (Australia vs. South Africa at the SCG)

 

[Matt23]

No Headingly test?

 

[GB Lion]

I dont know why England have invited Bangladesh to play in the Triangular tournament. A very silly idea!!!!!! :roll:

They should have just ditched the Triangular series and played Three 20/20's against AUS

Also why do we have the Natwest Challenge??? what is the point in playing A ODI series and then playing another three games again. WHY?????? :roll:

I am still looking forward to the Ashes series though

 

[IanG]

I think it has something to do with recouping their losses because they refused to go to Zimbabwe during the world cup

 

[Anonymous]

That and they know the NatWest series will be a whitewash so they'll be hoping they can compete in the 3 ODI series.

Seriously why didn't they try and orginise Pakistan or someone to play in the tri-series.

 

[Craig]

No Headingly test?

Because of poor pitches and poor attendantence.

 

[Anonymous]

Also I imagine they were a bit upset in Manchester when they missed out on a test last ashes series, so Old Trafford gets the nod this time.

 

[Craig]

It is no different then Hobart missing out on a Test match.

 

[Mighty Tiger]

Bangladesh? :-k

Hopefully Channel 7 (or whoever gets the free to air rights) decides to show the first innings and first session this time around...

I doubt there will be Free to air coverage of the Natwest series - Ashes might be a chance but the Natwest series won't

 

[PARRA_FAN]

The Ashes should be on Fox, Channel 7 screwed the coverage up last time. :x