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Six and Out - Some Serious Cricket

December 28th, 2006

Melbourne : Day 3 : Get out the paint

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, […]

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December 27th, 2006

Melbourne : Day 2 : Aussies surge for 4-0

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 […]

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December 26th, 2006

Shane Warne : 700 wickets

Congratulations to Shane Warne who became the first man to take 700 Test wickets. It really was the dream setting: home ground, 90,000 people, last test and 700 wickets. Andrew Strauss played all around a flighted top spinner. Shane took off for a celebration, which ironically seemed to be copied from the new boy of […]

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December 26th, 2006

Melbourne : Day 1 : Too much pressure (for England)

About 6am this morning I got a text message from a good friend of mine:

Mate, am watching the cricket at the MCG. Can’t believe what a shocker. Hope you’ve had a good Xmas. Annabelle is still super hot.

Despite being incredibly jealous at my non-cricket-loving friend who was both watching the cricket at the MCG with […]

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December 25th, 2006

Melbourne: Preview

Well here we are. The 4th Test of the series, and whilst it is dead rubber, both sides still have something to play for. Australia are keen to continue their hunt for the whitewash whereas England are looking to stop the rot and try and prove their worth. The predicted change in the side has […]

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December 24th, 2006

How England lost the Ashes

So 3-nil down with two to play and the Ashes have already gone “home”. Whether England manage to win at all this series is now largely meaningless considering that the main event is already over. It sounds rather like an excited 17 year old out on his first date, There’s all the hype, the preparation, […]

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December 19th, 2006

I didn’t hear no fat lady*

It seems Australia’s cricket fans might not be the loyal cricket fans that everyone thinks they are. Apparently a bunch of tickets have been made available for the Boxing Day test in Melbourne.

A small amount of general public tickets for the first three days of Melbourne’s Boxing Day Test will go on sale from 9am […]

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December 18th, 2006

Perth : Day 5 : The Ashes are only worth 14 runs

England failed to maintain a hold on the Ashes as Australia’s bowlers successfully took the 5 remaining wickets required to regain the Ashes. KP and Flintoff made a valiant start at the job, but after Flintoff was out on 51, the remaining 4 wickets cost just 14 runs, despite Monty managing to string it out […]

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December 17th, 2006

Perth : Day 4 : 292 to win

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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December 16th, 2006

Perth : Day 3 : Gilchrist wins the Ashes

Any lingering hope that England might have had of somehow retaining the Ashes all but disappeared today thanks to some masterful batting from the Australians. Hussey, Clarke and Gilchrist all hit hundreds, though in Gilchrist’s case, hit is a bit of an understatement. If you could roll the words “smashed”, “thumped”, “walloped” and “blasted” all […]

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