My mother is the least jingoistic Australian person I know. But when Michael Clarke was run out (in another freakish manner) she threw her hat down in disgust. Even the English thought this was funny.
All the other Aussies swore. Multiple times. We are still swearing, although some are crying as well. All are drunk.
I am [...]
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Ashes 09: Drink up, England won the Ashes
August 24, 2009 – 7:26 am
Ashes 09: Previously at the Oval
August 23, 2009 – 3:20 pm
Australia
Tried to bowl England out for one ball, then thought they would wait for a declaration. Got 7 past their score in the first innings opening partnership, good for them.
England
Did what they had to do. Weren’t bad in the field, but seemed to wait for something to happen. Shouldn’t feel nervous.
Can Australia still [...]
Ashes 09: The Pitch
August 23, 2009 – 2:37 pm
The Oval Curator should be murdered.
The ICC have been doing their very best to ensure all test matches are played on the same wicket.
The CEO Brown 5 day edition.
Slowish. Lowish. Great to bat on. Impossible to get wickets on. Stay true till the end. And guaranteed to get 5 days of gate [...]
Ashes 09: 466 to go
August 23, 2009 – 5:39 am
The crowd stood and applauded their national hero gimp on his way out. They stood and applauded his 22. They stood and applauded their new talismanic all rounders arrival. They stood and applauded his stunning 29 (with two chances). They stood and applauded every shot Swann played (even the singles). They stood and gave him [...]
Ashes 09: Penbarthy apologises for terrorist “joke” after lawyers tell him to
August 22, 2009 – 9:52 pm
After the Cardiff test a hard hitting journalist brought your attention to a racist comment from David Penbarthy over at the Punch.
After flogging it to Crikey, and offering it to every English Newspaper (who all ignored me) I noticed the story sort of disappeared.
Now it has come back, this is from the ECB:
“Nationwide News have [...]
Ashes 09: Previously at the Oval
August 22, 2009 – 6:31 pm
Australia
They were obviously done in by the devilish nature of this pitch. A team of Australia’s greatest re-animated corpse cricketers couldn’t have survived on this pitch. Or they would have made 450 in a canter.
England
I said if they bowl well this could be a good score. They bowled well, it now looks like a damn [...]
Ashes 09: Michael Hussey Retires
August 22, 2009 – 2:52 pm
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 [...]
Ashes 09: Stuart Broad’s Barmitzvah
August 22, 2009 – 5:29 am
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 [...]
Ashes 09: Previously at The Oval
August 21, 2009 – 5:13 pm
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 [...]
Ashes 09: The Hope & The Freddie
August 21, 2009 – 1:28 pm
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 [...]
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