The Third Ashes Test Tips - Perth 14th-18th December

Sports journalists across the world are now ever fearful of making predictions on the five up and down days that concoct an Ashes Test match. If for whatever reason your blood pressure has not gone through the roof and you still have a heart in a good enough condition to bet on Australia v England, then here goes (at this point, a disclaimer should be entered?)At 2-0 down in the series, England's hopes of retaining the Ashes look to have vanished like, well, ash in a December gale. It's not so much the two match deficit, rather the calamitous, shambolic nature of defeat in Adelaide that has dispelled all doubt that Australia are simply too good for England. If you've got the stomach for it, a 5-0 Australia series win is where the sensible money is headed. This is available at a ridiculous 9/4 with SportingOdds. But - hold that thought - if you're looking to win back the fortunes the bookies took from us all in Adelaide, we may have to expect the unexpected this time out. Every Ashes series has an England hero, win or lose. Remember Mark Butcher? Everybody thought Paul Collingwood had the title H.E.R.O tattooed all over him for at least four and a half days of the second test. Now we have to look elsewhere. It's Monty Time! It's time for his much vaunted leaping celebration as he rattles through the Australian middle order! Panesar is a relatively short 22/1 with Bet365 to be man-of-the-match in Perth, particularly since England's selectors first must make the all-too-easy decision to play him. England are 100/1 to win the Ashes outright, winning 3-2, with Blue Square. Unlikely? Yes. Possible? Probably not. But this series, like the previous one in 2005 does have an aura about it. Don't write England off just yet.Australia 5-0 7/4 Australia 4-0 9/4 Australia 4-1 5/1 Australia 3-0 7/1 Australia 3-1 7/1 Australia 3-2 20/1 Australia 2-0 40/1 Australia 2-1 25/1 Draw 2-2 25/1 England 3-2 100/1 Odds by Blue Square