King Probot Michael Hussey has done something the selectors should have done a long time ago; he has sacked himself from cricket.
Sure he is calling it a retirement.
But we all know a good sacking when we see it.
He has said:
“I have struggled for a long time and I think this is the [...]
Bang. Pow. Kaboom.
That is what the pitch was doing. Every single ball England bowled was a grenade, cluster bomb, or waterbaloon filled with rotten eggs.
Wasn’t it?
No, the pitch was fine. The real damage was done by the puppy-dog boy-band member with a shocking bowling average and test bloodline. He may have won [...]
Australia
Weren’t that consistent, but seemed to want to fight the whole day out. Wasn’t always pretty, but it was pretty solid test cricket.
England
Batted themselves into hole. Never really got themselves out. If they bowl well this could be a good score, or Australia could double it.
Who is in front
300 on the first day [...]
The man came out to the sort of applause that makes young men want to take up cricket and makes girls with dubious morals want to take up cricketers.
It was as if Jesus came in covered in beer and ice cream.
They stood as one unit, they applauded, they cheered, they shouted, they awed.
He did what [...]
There was no atmosphere at the Oval today.
England’s opening batsmen Andrew Strauss and Alistair Cook came out to polite applause, Jerusalem was played without any roar from the crowd, Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood were allowed to bat like cadavers without abuse and the crowd mostly talked about the problems in the Tory party during [...]
I so want the Ashes to come down to the last day with Mitchell Johnson and Stuey Clark needing to put on 60 odd in seven overs to win with both of them madly going for it as Strauss keeps the field up trying to get a wicket as Hilfy sits on the balcony staining [...]
Hey Tim,
Here is another dossier, whatever the hell that means. Try keep this one private, not like the last one. I came across this kid when looking for photos of myself.
This is some Indian kid, he is like 5 or something, but I already see some worrying signs, so I thought I would work him [...]
In his deepest sleep, he always dreamt of the same thing.
The people wanted him; they screamed his name from every corner of the land.
They had not seen him in a long time, but his legend had grown with every year he was gone.
At first the wise old men were sceptical, but they feared their chance [...]
On Saturday afternoon the ECB finally said I could turn up to the last three days of the Test. I was on the phone with them when Ravi Bopara went out, and about 40 minutes later three more of his friends were gone as well. With England five down, and a potential six hour round [...]
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