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Part of my Christmas ritual (and probably yours too) is staying up to watch the first session of the Boxing Day test from the MCG. It used to be a dispiriting experience fifteen years ago. A succession of worthy challengers (some of which contained great bowlers like Ambrose, Walsh and Waqar Younis) would turn up…
Australia 251-7 (50 overs) England 252-4 (45.4 overs) I can’t remember a time when England have beaten Australia so easily in an ODI. If Lord’s was a canter, the Oval was a cakewalk. The Aussies’ total of 251 was never going to be enough on a fast scoring ground with a good pitch. Sky reckoned…
Australia 284 & 47. South Africa 96 & 236-2. Cricket Boks win by 8 wickets Words cannot describe the Aussies’ defeat in the first test to South Africa. Believe me, I’ve tried. Michael Clarke used ‘diabolical’ and ‘horrendous’ amongst other adjectives, but somehow they just didn’t cut it. I reckon ‘glorious’ and ‘hilarious’ are better…
Much has been made of Jimmy Anderson’s verbal confrontations with the Aussies during the first three tests. Stuart Clark, who I admit is not my favourite person, even suggested that Anderson had become Australia’s ‘twelfth man’; his logic was that Jimmy’s sledging irked the Australians and motivated them to play so well at Perth. Clark was…
It has taken me forty eight hours to find the willpower to write something about events at Perth. I’ve been avoiding the Ashes since the first session of day two. I even avoided the news channels in case there was a sports update. And I’ve particularly avoided tattoo parlours that specialise in ridiculous and effeminate cherry blossom designs. The…
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