Flintoff hails comeback kings

England captain Andrew Flintoff toasted his team-mates after they crowned the Ashes tour with one-day success.

Flintoff’s men completed one of the most remarkable turnarounds in sporting history to shock world champions Australia 2-0 in the finals of the Commonwealth Bank Series.

England seemed destined to catch an early plane home when they lost twice in a week in Adelaide mid-way through the tournament but they somehow ripped up the form book to qualify for the best-of-three showdown.

From: http://www.ecb.co.uk/england/flintoff-hails-comeba…

I didn’t manage to wake up in time (3.45am on a Sunday morning… I think not…), but when I did wake up and switch the TV on, the score was 39-2 and I thought that sounded promising, just as the rain came down.  (Why couldn’t they play this at the MCG, no chance of rain there).
Every time we took a wicket it appeared that the Gods would be against us and the heavens would open, but unusually for the England team on this tour, they stood up to the plate and gave an extra effort to get the job done.

Ricky Ponting was full of praise for the England team having demoralized them in the Ashes tour he gave nothing but good words for the England team.

So the flight back in a few days won’t appear so long with the one piece of silverware in the hold.  It’s only a shame that despite the way England played, the actual Ashes trophy will also be coming back to.  If there was ever a time to let the holders keep the trophy, this was the tour to do so.  Australia confirmed their ranking of world number one.

Now I know that the Australian tour has completed so it is probably a bit too late for that, but the ECB website has a series of excellent RSS Feeds.

http://www.ecb.co.uk/fans/rss-feeds-from-ecb-co-uk…

You can subscribe to those using your favourite feed reader/aggregator (even IE7 has a half decent reader, and FF has one too.  I favour the one in Thunderbird).

If you want to use the feeds as part of your website, you can use the code generator based on this site:

https://www.yaps4u.net/feed2js/build.php

Just plug the URL of the RSS feed into that web page, play around with the settings to get the output you want (use the Preview feed link).  Then paste the code into your web site.

Cut and paste the following code if you want the latest England Cricket news on your website.

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