There seems little point in coming up with a kind of Ashes “report card” since it’s blindingly obvious that Australia aced it, and England should be sent to summer school to resit their exams. (Maybe they should even be held back a year and forced to learn it all over again?). No, instead, I think […]
That was, as I said it would be, the proverbial that. England finally hung up their boots and signalled their defeat by losing the 5th test match of this Ashes series, affording the first whitewash in 80 years to Australia. There was never really likely to be a different result. Even Monty’s magical powers couldn’t […]
That, as they say, is pretty much that. Although England have managed to string this out to a fourth day, but at what equates to 12/5, the first Ashes whitewash in 80 odd years is now inevitable. Australia’s tail managed to do exactly what England’s tail (and top order, for that matter) failed to do: […]
No, you didn’t read that wrong, the title of this post IS moreorless identical to the one I used yesterday. Because, sadly, it IS all too familiar. England got a start and then crumbled to all out for less than 300. I’m struggling not to use the word capitulate as I’m aware that I’ve used […]
The final test of this bizarre Ashes series finally got underway, with most of the focus on just getting these matches over with rather than anyone actually particularly caring about the cricket. Sure, there’s the question over the first Ashes whitewash in a gazillion years, something that Australia are keen to achieve, and something England […]
I was reading through some old posts on my personal blog and came across a commentary I made about English cricket. I was wrong about the Ashes that year, but I was right about the Ashes this year:
When’s it all gonna come crashing down then? Seriously. 8 straight test wins in a row is something […]
… in one easy go. One crappy A4 sheet, covered in scribble and question marks and absolutely zero indication that they had a workable plan to get rid of the Australian batsmen. For example, they were relying on Hayden’s ego to get him out, Symonds forgetting to bring his feet, and the Gods of “fair […]
I was in two minds as to whether to simply post a blank entry here, to try and symbolise being speechless about the latest debacle. Just when I thought it really couldn’t get much worse, it did, as England were beaten by an innings inside 3 days. Australia didn’t even post a gigantic total, 419, […]
I didn’t make any predictions for Day 2 and I was right to not, since Day 2 panned out more or less exactly as you would reasonably have expected it. There was an outside chance that England might have created something magical, and in the morning session it nearly happened, as Harmison, Flintoff, Hoggard and […]
England will need to score 292 runs in a day if they are to save this Ashes series. Oh, and they have to do it with 5 batsmen. On Day 4, the England batsmen assembled something of a fightback, with runs from Ian Bell and Alastair Cook who looked to bat out the whole […]
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