England managed to end the Ashes tour on a high by somehow winning the Commonwealth Bank Trophy series. After a staggering 8 “group” matches, Australia entered the finals with 31 points having lost only one game, and England entered on a lowly 13 points having lost 5 games, just one better than New Zealand. The […]
Referring to Flintoff, as Captain, that is. As a player and a man he’s a total legend, but I couldn’t think of the best way of describing the irony, nay hipocrisy of the whole England team Captain / management / selection issue. Here’s a brief timeline:
Flintoff appointed Test captain, England lose 5-0
Flintoff loses some ODIs
Vaughan […]
Who would have thought it? Less than 2 weeks ago, the England cricket team was a dismantled wreck, a bunch of men who had been beaten and flogged repeatedly until they were little more than a shell of team. On the back of a catastrophic 5-0 drubbing in the Ashes, England did as everyone might […]
As the Commonwealth Bank trophy continued to trundle on through the never-ending “group stages” and after reading Tim DeLisles’s We Want Less, I got to thinking about the state of the travelling throughout this Ashes tour. And I even knocked up a little graphic to illustrate (using the first test in Brisbane as a starting […]
Australia recovered from their defeat to England to beat New Zealand with relative ease. New Zealand posted 290, just 2 less than England needed to beat Australia earlier in the week, but with Ricky Ponting back in the side, Australia looked back on form. Ponting, back from his rest, scored a hundred and Brad Hodge, […]
England did the unthinkable: they actually played some good cricket. The net result: They Beat Australia. And considering that really, that’s all this trophy is about, it’s a Big Thing. Most surprising, however, was that England actually played the type of cricket of which we knew they were always capable, but have totally failed to […]
Whilst watching England vs New Zealand in a ODI in the CB Trophy, I was hit by all the different people who caught my attention. So here they are.
Umpire Steve Davis
I’m not sure what it is, but there’s something about Umpire Steve Davis that I don’t like. I think the first thing is that I […]
First things first: England continued their fine run by losing another game of cricket. Nothing new there. New Zealand battered 318 off their 50 overs and England only managed 260 in theirs. Jacob Oram did another demolition job on England’s bowlers at the death, seeing the last 2 overs go for 36, and scoring yet […]
Following England’s annihilation at the hands of Australia (I could qualify that and say in the most recent ODI, but is there much point?), Paul Collingwood’s been running his mouth off spouting nonsense running the PR show in his column for the BBC. He spins all the usual stuff “we were really disappointed”, “we have […]
In a shocking stop-the-press development, Michael Vaughan is still injured. I mean injured again. I mean still injured again. Again, he’s still injured. After being out for over a year with a knee injury, Vaughan managed one game in charge (and marshalled England’s first and only win of the tour) before injuring himself with a […]
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