Watch Live Streaming of the 1st Ashes cricket test day 2 between Australia vs England which will begin at Cardiff, from July 8-12, 2009. Start time 11.00 am (10.00 GMT).
The home side England has a new Ashes captain in Andrew Strauss and two match-winners in Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff. wheras None of current Australia's fast bowlers have played a Test in England .
In a total of 300 Ashes Tests Australia have won in 121 whereas England have won 95 of them.
On the rankings front this is a battle between No. 1 and No. 5 reams, but for Australia and England it is much more than that. Australia must win this series to keep the No. 1 ICC Test rating.
England (possible): 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Ravi Bopara, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Matt Prior (wk), 7 Andrew Flintoff, 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 James Anderson, 11 Graham Onions.
Australia (possible): 1 Simon Katich, 2 Phillip Hughes, 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Hussey, 5 Michael Clarke, 6 Marcus North, 7 Brad Haddin (wk), 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Nathan Hauritz, 10 Stuart Clark, 11 Peter Siddle.
The First Test Day 2 between England and Australia will be played on 9th July 2009 at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.
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