The worst possible scenario has happened to the English cricket team, they have lost cricket’s most valuable ethereal element, ‘momentum’.
Sure they won the series, but what is the point of a win if you can’t take buckets of momentum with you.
Australia winning two one dayers in a row has meant that they can claim to have the momentum as the take the field in the first ashes test.
Yes I understand that we are in July and the Ashes don’t starat till November and don’t finish till January, but momentum is momentum.
It is possible that Australia could lose the momentum, I suppose, but then they could win it back, and lose it again, and then win it back, before losing it.
I think the key to momentum is having it for longer than the other team do and using it to win matches with.
You need to get momentum to win games and you need to win games to get momentum.
Australia has done this, and with no matches between now and Novmember there is no possible way for England to get the momentum back. It is simply gone for months.
They could, theoretically, beat Pakistan four nil and watch Australi lose 4 bil to Pakistan and India.
That would get back some momentum for them, but would it be enough momentum, or even the right kind of momentum.
The thing with momentum is that we never know how to correctly weigh its important. Australia beating England is a huge momentum gathering event, but was it even enough to counter the momentum of England’s T20 win, was that win enough to out weigh Australia’s win in the Champion’s Trophy and 7 match ODI series, and were those two enough to trump England’s Ashes wins which had allegedly got the momentum back from Australia’s 5-nill win of the 06/07 Ashes.
We haven’t even talked about the 05 Ashes yet.
That is how tricky momentum can be. After finishing that long paragraph I lost my momentum. But I could get it back. I could write another really sharp and ironic sentence that went on forever and made you feel a little dizzy. Then, poof, momentum back. It just isn’t happening for me though. That paragraph took it out of me, and the momentum is lost for now.
That is just how it works.
Australia have it now, but they won’t have it for ever. No one can.
Momentum is a fickle mistress.
