Ashes 5th Test Day 1 Talking Points from the Boundary
Old school It may have been Sydney in January but it could just as easily have been Old Trafford in May as the 5th Test started under grey skies and increasingly frequent showers. Michael Clarke’s...
View ArticleUsman Khawaja: Hold the Applause
Plaudits have been plentiful for the performance of test debutant Usman Khawaja yesterday. One of the very few Australian batsmen (the first since Justin Langer in 1992) to make his debut at number...
View ArticleAshes 5th test Day 2 Talking points from the Boundary
A sting in the tail When James Anderson took his fourth wicket of the morning to reduce Australia to 189/8 with only five overs of the second new ball gone, England looked well set for another big...
View ArticleAshes 5th Test Day 3 talking Points from the Boundary
‘Daddy’ Cook in the pink again On a day when the SCG went pink in memory of Jane McGrath, Alastair Cook again looked in prime form as his plunder from the series rose to three hundreds and 766 runs. In...
View ArticleAshes 5th Test Day 4 Talking Points from the Boundary
England on the brink of joining the immortals On a day when that doughty fighter Paul Collingwood announced his retirement from test cricket, England are on the verge of gaining admittance to the...
View ArticleEngland win 3-1. Ashes 5th Test Day 5 Talking Points from the Boundary
24 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming Like many we wrote before the series that this Australian team was there for the taking, but despite this our natural English pessimism led us to predict...
View ArticleWhere to now for Australian Cricket?
Matthew Wood of Balanced Sports provides a post Ashes post-mortem for Australia and urges them to focus on 2014. Whether Australia’s 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Old Enemy doesn’t really matter even...
View ArticleA Whimsicalish Piece on my Reaction to the Glorious Ashes Campaign
Darren Corr reflects on the Ashes… “Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.” Sam Walter Foss Having finally...
View ArticleDamien Wright Is the reason we Lost the Ashes
Derranilphil of cricketpodcast.com explains why someone you might never have heard of is the reason Australia lost The Ashes. Many people, many experts and even the most excellent one Hand One Bounce...
View ArticleThe #1 Reason Australia Lost The Ashes
Only a couple of days ago Derranilphil told us why Damien Wright lost Australia the Ashes. Now Ben Roberts (of Balanced Sports and World Cricket Watch) takes up the debate from a completely different –...
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