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Darren Gough: Selecting players and memories
The most high profile ommission from England’s tour party announced last week was the enigmatic Steve Harmison, once Test cricket’s most fearsome fast bowler, but more often than not in recent years a shadow of his best on the international scene. Many people have considered this the end of Harmison’s international career, and the reasons [...]
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 [...]
When headlines and quotes don’t match: the Harmison recall
The Mirror’s exclusive on the eve of the second Test between England and Australia this week is all about Steve Harmison, with the former Daily Mail columnist quite happy to chat about the prospects of returning to the England fold and his plans for the future. Quite how pleased he’ll be with the representation of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sidebottom undeserving of Agnew criticism
The Barbados Test descended into one of the most futile and underwhelming pieces of Test cricket imaginable yesterday – seventeen wickets falling in five days pointed either to the need to restore timeless Test matches or to look far more closely at the quality of pitches. Jonathan Agnew, however, managed to find someone to blame [...]
Was unretiring from ODIs worth it for Harmison?
The Test between West Indies and England in Jamaica was destined to be punctuated by the IPL auction, and while Flintoff and Pietersen will wake up today in the knowledge that they can now fill a bathtub with fivers and wash themselves green, their colleague Steve Harmison might find himself in a more reflective mood.
Harmison, a [...]
Steve Harmison’s last chance, definitely
As England prepare for their tour to the West Indies, the previews are being printed, and the talk turns to issues of selection. Tom Fordyce begins his piece for the BBC on Ashington’s finest with the following words:
Another series, another last chance for Steve Harmison.
He’s right. It doesn’t matter what he does, Harmison has been staring the [...]