He is right though. It is an awfully scheduled summer! They should have done it the other way round. Have the Aussies in early summer and play them when its wet. The Aussies wouldn't be able to play their natural aggressive cricket and England could try to edge them out with some dogged batting. And then, they could have played us late in the summer when its dry and sunny to make it a more evenly matched series. I guess they figured no one would be up to playing once the Ashes was over. The intensity would go completely, while atleast before the Ashes, the players will have something to work up to. And the three Eng-Aus one dayers, what are those all about? Totally unecessary! They have packed the Ashes into too short a time, and the fitter team will last out, which is likely to be Australia as by the time the fourth and fifth Test come on, England would have played a couple of Tests more this summer than the Aussies! This really is the problem of sports trying to accomodate tv networks. Great for revenue, terrible for cricket itself!
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