Former English cricket captain Nasser Hussain believes the upcoming ashes series will be a close encounter. The legend believes the Englishmen will give a fierce competition to defending ashes champions Australia. England Cricket is in red hot form in test cricket due to a formidable performance against Ireland.
Ashes cricket is one of the most anticipated series between Australia and England. Some consider it to be more important than the prestigious World Cup. Evidently, it is much a bigger thing for Aussies and Britishers to represent in Ashes than any other tournament.
Former English Captain Nasser Hussain believes England will prevail over Aussies
Hussain has full confidence in Ben Stokes and team to prevail victorious over Australia. However, he also thinks it’s going to be a close competition and predicts the series to end 3-2. His confidence comes in the backdrop of a scintillating performance against Ireland this summer.
In the only one of test, England posted a daunting 524. Moreover the major contribution came from vice captain Ollie Pope. Apart from him, Ben Duckett made a handy hundred where’s as Pope scored a maiden double hundred.
An unavoidable hurdle before the Ashes
While England cruises against Ireland, Australia has some unsolved business with India. WTC leaders will face India in World Test Championship Final starting June 7th.
Besides this, let Australian players withdrew their names from IPL this season to focus on test cricket. Australia will be playing their maiden Test Championship Final. Whereas India is the only team to make into to the final twice in a row.
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England Cricket under Brendon McCallum has transformed drastically. The English men have lost only 2 games over the last 12 months.
Given the track record England have a upper hand going into the Ashes this season. It’ll be interesting to see how things turn around.
