Feels good doesn't it? to have regained the Ashes, Time to celebrate, let their hair down, relax and generally enjoy something that is an all too rare achievement, Beating the Aussies in an Ashes series, for the squad members who have done it twice in 4 years, does it really get much better than this?

Instead of spending Tuesday which would have been the first day after the 5th day recovering, the England 1 day squad will be traveling to Belfast for nets and then only 3 days after the scheduled finish of the test series play Ireland in a one day international, then have 9 more games, 2 Twenty/20 games and seven one dayers all before September 20th. Thats ok right a few more weeks and then some much needed rest….Wrong.

Both England and Australia both then have to fly to South Africa for the champions trophy and arrive too late to fit in a warm up game, sure they need that because they'll all be rusty from the resting and partying, The tournament starts on 22nd September and England's first game is the 25th and then again on the 27th and 29th against, Sri Lanka, South Africa and New Zealand. If England make the final on 5th October they will have a few weeks back home.

On November 1st England fly back to South Africa for the start of the Winter tour for 12 weeks returning home after 4 test matches and 5 One Dayers plus the usual tour matches returning back on 19th January.

There's the Twenty/20 World cup in April and a short tour of Bangladesh in February, I just hope Englands first choice squad is fit by the time fo the first test in December at Centurion