The England juggernaut rolls on in the 2010/2011 Ashes campaign, while the Australians have turned to the bottle for answers to their bowling woes. The beer bottle that is, with West Australian and WACA local, Michael Beer being selected for his debut in the 3rd test match, commencing on Thursday. It hasn’t swayed the bookmakers though, with Ladbrokes installing England at 7/4 favourites for the match, with Australia rated a 2/1 chance to bounce back with a win and the draw is the preferred option at 6/4. You can also still get 2/5 about England to win the series, which the smart punters are jumping out of trees to get on.

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Little has been seen of the left arm orthodox spinner, but he comes with the highest recommendation possible, that of the King of Spin himself, Shane Warne. Yes, while Shane was busy delivering a few googlies to Liz Hurley this week, he still managed to find the time to encourage the Aussie selectors to pick the debutant as their spin weapon for the upcoming test.

The bookmakers are not convinced that Beer is the answer to Australia’s problems, although their supporters may beg to differ. With the summer warming up and the Aussie’s ashes campaign looking more and more shaky each day, Australians will be turning to their proudly cold beer from Brisbane to Broome.

Posted on December 14th, 2010 by Trix
Filed under: Test Match