< 1 minute readWe hope he isn’t, because it’s exciting when unusual players have an impact and it’s good for your side to beat one featuring great players, but everyone has gone a bit mental about Hughes. He’s played a couple of seasons of domestic cricket, one Test series and a bit of
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Ashes 2005 5th Test at The Oval
2 minute readFor many people, this was the moment when England won the 2005 Ashes, but we didn’t see it like that. We actually found the whole Test – and the last day in particular – a slightly maudlin experience. It was the last Test, a great Ashes series was nearly over
Continue readingAshes 2005 4th Test at Trent Bridge
2 minute readWe’ve been to some duff days of cricket, but Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff were at the crease for the start of day two and to say we were looking forward to it was an understatement. While we were queueing to get in, Pietersen was caught behind. If we’d got
Continue readingAshes 2005 3rd Test at Old Trafford
2 minute readWe went to one day of this third Test of the 2005 Ashes series. We went the day it rained. At the time, we lived a couple of stops away on the tram, so we just waited at home until we knew when play was due to start and then
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Ashes 2005 2nd Test at Edgbaston
4 minute readIn the middle of the Edgbaston Test, we genuinely thought to ourself that cricket had got too good. We actually thought that cricket needed to be worse so that we could appreciate it properly. There was so much brilliant cricket to take in and not enough time to process things.
Continue readingAshes 2005 1st Test at Lord’s
2 minute readLooking back with hindsight, the most bizarre aspect of the first Test in the 2005 Ashes series was the fact that people thought Ian Bell and Graham Thorpe would keep Kevin Pietersen out of the team. In the end, England made the brave decision. England lost this match by some
Continue readingAshes 2005 Twenty20 international and one day series
2 minute readPeople forget about the one-day series that preceded the 2005 Ashes, but they were a key part of it. They were ingeniously scheduled before the Test series, so that tension mounted. In 2009, they’re afterwards, like vegetable soup after a six-course meal. Twenty20 match England won the Ashes because they
Continue readingMatthew Hayden approves of Phil Hughes
< 1 minute readMatthew Hayden has given Phil Hughes, his successor as Australia’s opener, his seal of approval. We know what you’re all wondering: How has Hayden expressed this? The answer, of course, is ‘badly’: “He’s got all the evidence and the skillsets he needs. His humbling personality and how respectful he is
Continue readingThe England and Wales Cricket Board’s business partners
< 1 minute readHere’s one: No-one with a moustache could ever be evil.
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff’s strengths as a bowler
< 1 minute readBit of pace, bit of bounce, good control and then there’s what the lazy among us refer to as ‘presence’; or worse, an ‘X-factor’. The concept of an X-factor always pisses us off. It’s not that there’s some mystical, unknowable attribute. It’s just that you haven’t bothered to find out
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