Sentence examples for ashes prospects from inspiring English sources

"I'm always confident," he added, of Australia's 2013-14 Ashes prospects.

Clarke was non-committal about the effect on Australia's Ashes prospects of the change in management, perhaps out of loyalty to Arthur.Lehmann, who offered to give up his Test place to Clarke after the youngster had scored a century on debut in Bangalore in 2004, was more bullish.

They will not want their Ashes prospects to be damaged by Warner and I'm sure they will knuckle down and work all the harder to overcome it.

Take away these contributions, and England would be reeling at the prospect of Ashes action in a few months' time.

Failure to get out of the group, or even win a game, in the ICC Champions Trophy, nilled in the Ashes and now the prospect of losing an ODI series to what has widely been regarded as England's second string.

We all remain remarkably curious and excited by the prospect of the Ashes.

Consequently, while a few voices have talked of overkill at the prospect of ten Ashes tests in a row, the return series which begins in Brisbane on 21 November could be perfectly timed.

With the prospect of an Ashes whitewash looming ever closer there was at least a sense of well-grooved familiarity about the spectacle of yet another helter-skelter England batting collapse on the second day of the fifth Test in Sydney.

When assessing Australia's prospects for retaining the Ashes in 2015 and the players likely to carry out the task, the only truly instructive way of looking forward is by taking a watchful glance backwards.

The England team director, Andy Flower, and his captain Alastair Cook have been given the green light to remain in their jobs despite the prospect of a 5-0 Ashes whitewash.

Nathan Lyon heads into his third Ashes series both buoyant at the prospect of facing seven left-handers in the England batting order and feeling suitably emboldened to label their training camp in Spain this weekend "a holiday".