Category Archives: Cricket

Bowled, Shane

December 21, 2006 – 3:05 pm

Shane Warne has decided to hang up his flipper at the end of this Ashes series, going out of the game on his own terms. One thing’s for certain: we’ll miss him when he’s gone.
His retirement inspired me to reprise this piece, originally published over at the Sydney Morning Herald. I’m reproducing it below the [...]

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Open Ashes Thread - Third Test, WACA

December 13, 2006 – 8:04 pm

This is make or break for the Poms, Andrew Symonds is getting a run, and if Australia wins here, we regain the Ashes.
I’m actually pleased Symonds is playing, and I hope he does well. He’s an inspiration to many people from ‘different’ backgrounds in Queensland, and although he’s West Indian by extraction, growing up in [...]

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Open Ashes thread - Second Test

December 1, 2006 – 12:11 am

Well, the Second Test gets underway on Friday, and I suspect that if the Poms win the toss on a road like Adelaide, Australia could be in for a bit of leather hunting. The First Test - until Day 4 - was a pretty lopsided affair, although it did throw up a few interesting conundrums.
This [...]

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Open Ashes thread

November 23, 2006 – 8:44 am

The first test gets underway in Brisbane today. At this stage, we still don’t know who’ll get the final fast bowler’s spot - young left arm quick Mitchell Johnson or the more experienced Stuart Clark. Johnson is a Queenslander and has the advantage of playing at home. Clark is from NSW and not as quick, [...]

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Countdown to the Ashes

October 22, 2006 – 9:37 pm

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Australia lost the Ashes last time around, and that the Poms are heading our way this summer and we’ll be doing our best to reclaim what we consider (almost) our property.
This post is just to let people know that I’ll be putting Ashes related [...]

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