In case you didn’t know, England have completed one of the most unexpected victories in sporting history over cricketing giants Australia. The cricket Ashes victory over the weekend was one of the very few over recent years for England and has captured the nation due to the manner of the victory. On many occassions over the 5 test matches, England had looked down and out but thanks to some heroic batting and excellent bowling, the Lions were able to wrap up victory in the final Oval test match.

The turning point in the final innings was thanks to some quick thinking by Andrew Flintoff to run out Australia captain Ricky Ponting when they were starting to get a grip on the match. Flintoff has been suffering from injury over recent months and years and his performances have taken a knock as aresult, but his instinct was still evident to remove Ponting.

Captain Andrew Strauss praised all his England players following the match and hopefully the England players can build on this performance and get the belief to compete with the biggest cricketing nations.