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, [...]
Before the Ashes series started I didn’t have much faith in England’s bowling. The first test proved my point that the English bowling wasn’t good enough to take 20 Australian wickets.The second test, however, proved me completely wrong; not only did they pick up 20 Australian wickets, they got half of those for only 215.They didn’t bowl Australia out in the 2nd innings of ...
I said England did not stand a chance.I said their bowling was shit.I said Stuart Broad was worse than shit.Not only did England win the Ashes, Stuart Broad played an instrumental role in taking them to that series win.I don’t have an egg, I have a full omelette on my face!Broad and Swann, whom I always expected to have an impact during the Ashes, took the game away on the 2nd day itself whe...
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 – …
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