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Sports thoughts from the weekend
Apologies to SWS readers for the delays here - technical issues delayed this bulletin by 24 hours, with broken internet confirming that websites are literally nothing without the internet, but like our first feature below, we thought better late than never.
England are World Champions. In Cricket!
After 4 major finals including 3 world cups, England have finally delivered [...]
Sports thoughts from the Bank Holiday weekend
Snooker
So we have a World Champion, and he’s Australian. Neil Robertson was brilliant up until the final, but then again so was Graeme Dott. The contest, last more than half a day of solid table time, showed the fragile line between brilliance and mediocrity. These two players had been exceptional on their routes to the [...]
Another baffling selectorial Cook-up
So for reasons best known to the ICC, a 30 man provisional squad for the World Twenty20 Championships has to be submitted this week, and England have announced theirs. Amongst the thirty names there is no space for the stand-in ODI and Test captain Alastair Cook.
Geoff Miller, doing an interview in relation to the announcement, said [...]
YouTube - A magnificent Seven… Golden Moments from the Dutch
Everyone had questioned the wisdom of starting the Twenty20 World Cup with England vs. The Netherlands, surely a one-sided encounter devoid of drama would kick things off with a whimper rather than a bang?
How wrong the naysayers were. The Netherlands played out of their skin and an eventful final over ended with England literally throwing the [...]