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Sports thoughts from the weekend
Mercury rising… and falling and rising again
English cricket continues to baffle. Last week we looked at the mercurial nature of the side that could be slain for more than 240 in 20 overs and then restrict South Africa to almost the same over 50 overs and knock off the runs with panache. This weekend the [...]
Is South African bowling really a concern?
With the Test series ahead and the first clashes played out across the shortest form of the game, attention is turning to the composition of the two teams for the four Test series between South Africa and England this winter. And former professional Mike Atherton-slayer Allan Donald thinks he has spotted a problem with the [...]
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: 13.7.9 - Lucky, lucky boys
So we left things on Friday after two days in which England had sparred with Australia and the match looked fairly even. In truth, Simon Katich and Ricky Ponting’s stand had been the start of a period of domination that would last until the very end of day 5. The Australians hammered centuries for fun, [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend - clinging on
Clinging on against defeat
There’s a game England had no right to emerge from without defeat. But after a day when it almost invariably appeared that defeat was an inevitability, a draw was the result as Monty Panesar and James Anderson saw out the last 69 balls of the day and England finished 9 wickets down, holding [...]
YouTube - a magnificent seven…moments from England and the West Indies
There is so much to see on YouTube that it tempts you to give up full-time work and enslave yourself to seeing every last video (barring those ones of babies and kittens doing cute things). But where to begin? Sport without Spin will guide you with a digest of some of our favourite clips.
This week, in anticipation [...]