Ashes loss is a major jolt to Australia

The Ashes series between Australia and England is held every four years and has a great importance in the game of cricket. Both the countries treat it as a matter of great pride and put everything in winning the Ashes series. The just-concluded Ashes series which was played in England ended in the victory of England. And this is the great achievement for the English team under Strauss to have won the Ashes series. The British media has written the adulation of the players of team elaborately and the entire country showers enormous praise on the team under the leadership of Strauss.The Australian under veteran Ricky Ponting suffered a big humiliation. With the defeat of Australia in the Ashes series , its Badshahat in the world of cricket has also been ended with the loss of ICC ranking 1. Before this humiliating loss of Ashes series, it was unchallenged in the world of cricket. Autralia is no longer number one team of cricket in the world and its ICC ranking has come down to number 4 one below India which is at number 3 in ICC ranking.The falling in ICC ranking does not hurt the Australian team as much as its defeat in the Ashes series.It has hurt captain Ricky Ponting so much so that he has pledged to get back the Ashes Trophy in 2013 again. Australian cricket team under the captaincy of Ricky Ponting has not been doing well for the last one and half year. The most important reason behind the Australian team not being up to mark is the retirement of its three star players at a time - Macgrath, Shane Warne and Gilchrist- from teat cricket. They created a great vacuum in the team and Australian cricket board is facing great problem in finding the players of their stature to fill the vacuum. They are among the greatest world players who have retired from test cricket. One thing that also boomeranged on the Australian team is the foul means they usually adopt to defeat their rivals. There has been bad umpiring in the just concluded Ashes series which went against Australia. Sledging, cheating and taunting tactics the Australian players do of the players of rival team to unsettle them during the play are the their hallmark . When the team of any country makes tour of Australia to play cricket against them. It has been generally seen that the Australian team despite being strong in all fields of the game even adopt unfairs means to defeat the rival team on their home ground to draw false adulation. The Australian team almost adopts arbitrary manners and a facade of superiority to demorlise the rival team members. They don’t care about sportsman spirit and whether it is good or bad means when it comes to winning the match. Their main motive is not to maintain the spirit and decorum of the gentle game of cricket but to win by hook or crook. No doubt, the Australian team has extra-ordinary resillience to bounce back but presently it has been badly thrashed . Its morale is down with the defeat of Ashes series at the hands of its oldest and traditional rival England in the game of cricket.