Strauss leads England back from brink to promised land
Posted Sunday, December 27, 2009 by The Independent
Captain wins ultimate prize after making players responsible for their actions
Everything seems different when the Ashes have come home. The world, or at least the English part of it, is somehow a much happier, sprightlier place. Presumably, in the Australian part of it at present, the reverse is true.
Quite how England managed to reclaim the trophy in the summer of 2009 continues to be something of a mystery. Theses may come to be written on it. Australia's batsmen scored more runs and their bowlers took more wickets, but it was England who won the moments that mattered, and in defying tradition at Lord's by winning for the first time in 75 years and coming back remarkably at The Oval following a shambolic defeat in Leeds they exhibited the virtues of team spirit. Andrew Strauss lifts the Ashes at The Oval
No praise should be too high for the England captain, Andrew Strauss. In January he took over a team that were befuddled if not in disarray after the coach Peter Moores and captain Kevin Pietersen were both deposed.
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