Ricky Ponting has been chosen to appear on the front cover of the 2009 Playfair Cricket Annual, I see. This is mostly good news for England. Time and again, Bill Frindall’s cover choices tend to ruin the player’s short-term career, so bring on the Ashes.
PS: that sound you can hear is a clump of straw, [...]
Ricky Ponting believes it is “absolutely possible” that Australia can trounce England with a 5-0 Ashes clean-sweep this summer. Although Ponting didn’t quite match Glenn McGrath’s 5-0 prediction from four years ago – which turned out to be correct – …
We’re less than 50 days away from the Ashes and Australia have named their touring squad. Here is my pick of the top XI batting order plus the second fiddles:
Phillip Hughes
Simon Katich
Ricky Ponting
Michael Clarke
Michael Hussey (demoted one spot due to lack of form)
Marcus North
Brad Haddin
Mitchell Johnson
Brett Lee
Peter Siddle
Stuart Clark
And the other guys left to carry the kit bag...
The Ashes build up in the media was overwhelming to say the least; but that was nothing compared to the over drive they went into today.I woke up to over a 100 new entries in my RSS Reader. That has never happened before and I have over a 100 blogs and sites that I subscribe to!It goes without saying that almost all of those new entries was something or the other about the Ashes, which kicked off ...
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