Edgbaston predictions

I'm with Ashley Giles. There's been a whole load of crap written during the last ten or eleven days about how England are useless and they need to change this or that. It was like being in a time warp. I'm sure a lot of journalists just cut and paste large chunks of articles first written in the eighties and nineties. This England team isn't at all bad. It's certainly the best that I've seen since I started watching back in the late seventies. They won a lot of test matches before losing one to Australia, who are possibly the best team ever (although it would have been interesting to see them face up to Marshall and Garner). And that one loss wasn't exactly a humiliation either. It was like a 3-0 scoreline in a football match: sounds like a drubbing but the second and third goals were scored in the last ten minutes. So I'm relieved that the selectors have stuck with the same team (even though they should never have discarded Thorpe, but that's history now) and I'm guessing that their faith may be repaid, a little at least. The atmosphere at Edgbaston will suit England. The pitch may do also. I reckon that Vaughan will score a few, I hope that Bell does and the bowlers must be feeling pretty confident, Giles excepted. So come on, Ash, roll up, twirl, remember bowling Lara at Lord's last year, be our Shane Warne equivalent.
OK, yeah, odds on that Australia will win again, but you never know...