{"id":3805,"date":"2011-01-08T20:14:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2011-01-08T20:16:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T10:16:21","slug":"the-ashes-game-five-i-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3805","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes Game Five &#8211; I Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3806\" style=\"width: 617px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/finalashes.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3806\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3806\" title=\"finalashes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/finalashes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/finalashes.gif 607w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/finalashes-300x267.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cool 2,009 points in the final game saw Team Rocket make up a 500 point deficit and claim the Fantasy Ashes league title<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Australia 280 &amp; 281<br \/>\nEngland 644<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><em>England win the game by an innings and 83 runs.<\/em> <em>England retain the Ashes and win the series 3-1.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Whelp, the fact that I had an awesome final round in the Fantasy Ashes league was little consolation for what has been a miserable summer of cricket for the Aussies.\u00a0 What an absolute hiding.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe it.\u00a0 That was a pretty wretched performance no matter which way you look at it.<\/p>\n<p>The rebuilding process has started immediately with Steve Waugh being brought in to assess the damage and report on what went wrong.\u00a0 Also, Michael Clarke has quit his captaincy of the Twenty20 side to focus on improving his batting.\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 Maybe that was his problem this whole series.\u00a0 Maybe when he was getting bowled out for less than 10 runs time and time again, his mind was elsewhere thinking about that all important upcoming Twenty20 exhibition match.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Ponting is still hanging around as captain.\u00a0 No one really knows why.<\/p>\n<p>As the slow rebuilding process for Australian cricket begins, we just have to get on with our lives and try to forget the whole sorry ordeal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pommybastard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3807\" title=\"pommybastard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pommybastard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pommybastard.jpg 592w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pommybastard-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia 280 &amp; 281 England 644 England win the game by an innings and 83 runs. England retain the Ashes and win the series 3-1. Whelp, the fact that I had an awesome final round in the Fantasy Ashes league was little consolation for what has been a miserable summer of cricket for the Aussies.\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ashes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}