When I first started this blog a year or two back, my primary aim was to vent to no-one in particular my frustration about the series between Australia and India that was being played at the time. I was quite surprised when people responded, and damn, 2008 was a fun year for blogging.Last year, not so much, for a few reasons, one being that I spent a fair portion of the year in countries where, if you asked someone for the cricket score, they’d look at like you like you were from outer space. (And probably follow up with a comment about insects). But it was a pretty big year for Australia, we lost the Ashes (boo), we slipped from number one (double boo), Matt Hayden retired (m... See the complete post here
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