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Nine’s cricket team: all out except Slats
As the cricket season eases into its being, it’s time to reflect on the Channel Nine commentary (read pensioners) team, most of whom are well beyond their use-by dates, mulls Michael Vaughan.
Football codes bury hatchet to defend alcohol sponsorship
Football codes are uniting against a Health Task Force recommendation that would see advertising during live sport broadcasts phased out during high adolescent/child viewing times and the end of alcohol sponsorship of sport, writes Simon Chapman.
NSW Blues bat their way to a million-dollar pay-day
The NSW Blues are set to leave India’s Champions League Twenty20 competition with at $US1.3 million — and a potential $US2.5 million if they can take out the series. Howzat?!
Partner swapping: One Day Cricket’s opening stands
Openers who’ve had the most batting partners, and those with the fewest. Sachin Tendulkar’s had 19 — but that only puts him in fifth possie on Cricinfo’s table.
And that was the Ashes; a sissy fight in the schoolyard
The truth is that the Ashes 09 were like two pretty ordinary sides that were fighting like sissy kids in the schoolyard. One of them won. It wasn’t Australia.
England wins Ashes, 16 months of barmy humour ahead
For the next 16 months we have to endure open-top buses, MBEs for scratchy batsman and all the jokes about how rubbish we are, writes Jarrod Kimber.
Crikey wrap: Let the Ashes blame game begin…
As the blame game begins, what is the world’s media saying about the Ashes? For a start, Ricky Ponting’s captaincy has been called into question, writes Crikey intern Emily Finlay.
Ashes 09: Tories and no balls everywhere at The Oval
There was no atmosphere at the Oval today, writes Jarrod Kimber.
Ashes 09: The Oval, the Fifth Test preview
Ashes series are only played every four years in the hearts and minds of the average English fan (the Australian series are in a shocking time zone). So this test is like the Olympic final of Tests.
Should England have kept faith with Ravi Bopara?
The London Times’ cricket correspondent Mike Atherton questions England’s decision to leave Ravi Bopara off the squad in favour of Jonathan Trott.
Ashes 09: Australia remember how to win as England lose the plot
The only logical explanation for why Australia went from a struggling cricketing team to a dominant force in the Fourth Ashes Test at Headingley is that England always had a paper thin batting line up and, for once, Australia had their bowlers in form to take advantage of it.
Ashes 09: Headingley, the Fourth Test preview
This series is looking more and more likely like it could end up as the statistical anomaly series. With the weather and the form of the Australian bowling unit, it is hard to see exactly how Australia will win this test.
Ashes 09: The silly point of watching cricket in the press box
Press boxes at the cricket across England are very odd places, full of old men, cliques and long lunch queues.
Ashes 09: England only win when they’re swingin’
Australia still can’t play swing bowling. England can’t take wickets without it. Jarrod Kimber looks back at the Third Test.
England siezes control
With the taste of victory spurring them on, England began to seize control in third Test at Edgbaston.
Ashes 09: Hughes’ Twitter drop — Gen Y meets the Baggy Green
Phil Hughes performed a cricketing first today, becoming the first Test cricketer to ever announce on Twitter that he had been dropped — before the Australian team had announced he was.
Ashes 09: Edgbaston faces First Day wash out
Several members of Edgbaston’s groundstaff will work on the water-logged outfield through the night, but have privately conceded there is little chance of play on Thursday.
Ashes 09: the swine flu diaries
Crikey’s Ashes correspondent Jarrod Kimber becomes the second high profile (ahem) Australian cricket journalist to get swine flu.
Ashes 09: Australia dares to dream
Today one record will fall: either Australia wins and breaks the world record, or England win and finally end their 75-year misery at the hands of Australia. Jarrod Kimber keeps the hope alive.
Cricket or golf: which is the least boring?
Stephen Moss pits cricket against golf for boringness, rating them on terminology, length of game, commentators and fans.
Ashes 09: Why Lords is a carnival of ex-wing commander types
Impossibly optimistic MCC member Jonathan Este says the Lords test will be an old boys’ reunion.
Ashes 09: Lords, the Second Test preview
Australia haven’t lost at Lord’s since 1934 — with a history that strong, it would be rude of England to win.
Muslim = Al Qaeda … Penbo’s Punch in top comic form
There are some Australian cricket fans still furious at England’s time wasting to draw the first Ashes test, none more so than “Steve”, the mysterious friend of The Punch Editor David Penberthy.
