< 1 minute readAndrew Symonds said: “I did something silly with him one night and I suppose I was a bit disrespectful to him.” What does that sound like to you? It sounds like it could only be one thing to us. What act is both silly and disrespectful? Ask yourself that. It
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Australia vastly inferior to India who are better than everyone
< 1 minute readAfter winning successive Test series against West Indies, South Africa, South Africa again, Bangladesh, England, Sri Lanka, India and West Indies, Australia finally lost away to India and are now ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING at cricket. India’s recent run of losing a series against Australia, drawing one against South Africa, losing one
Continue readingHarbhajan Singh batting against Australia
< 1 minute readAs often as not this year, Harbhajan Singh has hit a fifty against Australia. Quite literally. He’s had eight innings against them and hit four of the six fifties he’s hit in his entire Test career. He is an improved batsman, but Australia won’t be impressed by that. We’re not
Continue readingIan Botham says England will win the Ashes
< 1 minute readIan Botham’s been doing his bluff overconfidence thing again: “What I’ve seen so far, I don’t see as too much of a threat and if England’s bowlers stay fit then they’ll win the series.” This is why Ian Botham was a brilliant cricketer. He lets a few facts seep in,
Continue readingMore info about Jason Krejza
< 1 minute readWe’re rapidly turning into the authoritative site on Jason Krejza. Here’s what else we’ve gleaned (from comments that have been left on other updates): (1) His brother might well be called George and if he is, he claims to have taught Jason all he knows about cricket. (2) He was
Continue readingVVS Laxman hits another double hundred against Australia
< 1 minute read‘VVS Laxman. How would you rate this among your double hundreds against Australia?’ ‘I would say it was the worst’. No-one asked that really, because everyone knows Laxman’s 281 at Eden Gardens is his best innings. With six hundreds against them and an average of 54, Australia must hate VVS
Continue readingMatthew Hayden: the batsman, the weapon, the legend
< 1 minute readMatthew Hayden may have scored 42 runs in four innings, but according to him, it’s the WAY that he’s scored those runs that has been so vital to Australia’s ongoing success… “I think, more than anything, I am such a weapon here, because when I started attacking, they just got
Continue readingGautam Gambhir against Australia
< 1 minute readAnd Gambhir wins! That seems to be the way this is working. It was four years between Gautam Gambhir’s first and second Test hundreds. Now he’s hit two in two innings. He’s basically an attacking batsman who doesn’t feel he HAS to attack, which is pretty much what you want
Continue readingAustralian Test batting averages
2 minute readTell you which two players have scored most runs for Australia over the last ten or fifteen years: Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. Stick with us on this.
Continue readingAustralia, a young team in transition, look to the positives
< 1 minute readAnd other such euphemisms. Whatever happens tomorrow, it’s been years since Australia were bossed about like this. They’ve lost Tests over the last few years, but those losses have often been helter skelter, chaotic affairs. This is different. Australia are being dictated to. Ever since Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly
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