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The Ashes player ratings - a waste of time
At the end of the series it is customary for most media outlets to rate the players’ performances on a scale of 1-10, as if that in some way helps us understand the story of the Tests. The only trouble, of course, is that it is a colossal waste of time. Here’s a round-up of [...]
YouTube - A Magnificent Seven… Players who could win the Ashes
And so we move onto the Big One. The Oval, with the series all square with one to play. The Aussies, by virtue of winning the last series 5-0 (despite everyone pretending in the build up to this series that that series never happened) have the upper hand, with a draw good enough to retain [...]
Ashes round-up: 17.7.9 - Surrendering the initiative, Warne the pundit, and the Flintoff farewell tour
Weren’t England fans just a little excited that we were 190-0, two men powering towards centuries at the home of cricket with an Australian quick bowler out of sorts and a spinner incapacitated? Was this the beginning of the turnaround which had seemed beyond improbable on Sunday? Well, if it wasn’t, it certainly felt like it.
Unfortunately, [...]
Ashes round-up: 10.7.9 - Vaughan gets in with a bad crowd, the memories of 2006-7 are as strong as those of 2005
The day began with the memories of Ashes 2005, and finished with the memories of 2006-7. Broad and Anderson were not two names who would have troubled the thinking of the Australian strategists when they drew up their bowling plans, but they emerged belligerently and moved the total forward. When Broad was replaced by Swann, [...]
YouTube - A magnficent seven… Moments from England’s 2005 Ashes victory
There is so much to see on YouTube that it is tempting to gouge at somebody’s eyes at work so you get suspended for eight weeks. But where to begin? Sport without Spin will guide you with a digest of some of our favourite clips.
This week, we take our inspiration from a certain cricket series starting in Cardiff (yes, Cardiff) next [...]
Kevin’s molehill injury - can we make it a mountain?
Was nobody listening when Kevin Pietersen withdrew from the ODIs against the West Indies?
Minor injury, he says. Could play but we’re being sensible, the ECB say. Let’s look at the important quotes, as relayed to us by the BBC:
Pietersen: “I hate missing out but the medical advice is to rest the injury,” he said.
“I’m extremely disappointed to be [...]
Alec Stewart’s Pearls of Wisdom
Alec Stewart made a name for himself as indisputably one of England’s all time greatest cricketers in a period when England were far from great. With 133 Tests to his name he is England’s most capped Test player, and his average of 39.54 would surely have been higher had he not selflessly doubled up as [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
The comeback which deserved an audience
So Carl Froch proved if nothing else that he had stamina, heart and resilience as he wrested back his title from the hands of Jermain Taylor in the 36th minute of the 36 of the contest. Until that point the Brit had been well behind, largely ineffective against the speed and [...]
Bumble’s opinions: remember, he was once in charge
David Lloyd is an engaging man and an enjoyable and funny commentator, and his enthusiasm for the sport is hard to dislike. With an extraordinary range of experience which has seen him be an England international, first-class umpre, national coach and full-time commentator, one would think that his observations and analysis would be as good [...]
Captain Insanity
With thirty names in the mix for the World Cup Twenty20 squad, one would think that it would be difficult to make a selection which caused much, if any, controversy. On this front, however, the selectors have a far higher capacity to excel themselves than the current players seem to have. Andrew Strauss isn’t in [...]