This story picks up in April 2009. I am playing as England as they started the 2009 season. The game is played on Normal difficulty.
For those of you not familiar with the position of English cricket at this time here are a few details. In 2005 England won the Ashes 2-1 at home in what has been named the greatest series of all time.
This was hailed as a new dawn for English Cricket, but as always with England things took a turn for the worst, injuries hit the side denying the team of it's captain Michael Vaughan and breaking up the Ashes bowling attack that performed so well with the losses of Jones and Flintoff. Then Marcus Trescothick retired from International Cricket due to stress related problems. This left the team with numerous cracks which needed to be filled. Even so, the team headed down-under with high hopes of retaining the Ashes under the captaincy of Freddie Flintoff.
Those hopes were quickly dashed by an emphatic, and embarrassing, 5-0 whitewash by Australia. Among the casualties is the coach Duncan Fletcher with Peter Moores installed as his successor.
In 2008 after losing the Test Series at home against South Africa an emotional Michael Vaughan steps down as England captain and went back to his county and try to find some form.
For those of you not familiar with the position of English cricket at this time here are a few details. In 2005 England won the Ashes 2-1 at home in what has been named the greatest series of all time.
This was hailed as a new dawn for English Cricket, but as always with England things took a turn for the worst, injuries hit the side denying the team of it's captain Michael Vaughan and breaking up the Ashes bowling attack that performed so well with the losses of Jones and Flintoff. Then Marcus Trescothick retired from International Cricket due to stress related problems. This left the team with numerous cracks which needed to be filled. Even so, the team headed down-under with high hopes of retaining the Ashes under the captaincy of Freddie Flintoff.
Those hopes were quickly dashed by an emphatic, and embarrassing, 5-0 whitewash by Australia. Among the casualties is the coach Duncan Fletcher with Peter Moores installed as his successor.
In 2008 after losing the Test Series at home against South Africa an emotional Michael Vaughan steps down as England captain and went back to his county and try to find some form.
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