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Your highlights of the summer
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of September, 3 Comments »
See that? That fleeting flash was our summer - and it’s gone. It’s the end of the season chaps, so what has your highlight been?
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Sussex’s double.
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Monty’s dismissal of, well, anyone you choose.
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England’s hilarious one-day performance against Sri Lanka.
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England’s less hilarious one-day performance against Pakistan.
So, throwing it open to the dangerous stump-wielding mob, what moment or event has been your pick of the summer? Need not be from the list above…those are just suggestions.
3 Comments »A farce waiting to happen
By Scott 2 years ago, at the start of June, 6 Comments »
Just a quick post from the Antipodes to put in my two cents on the Great Australian Ticketing Fiasco. Needless to say, Cricket Australia won’t accept a bar of responsibility for this; just as needless to say that they won’t learn from this if it happens in the future.
What I would have done is copied the system used by England; for all the faults of the ballot system, the UK ground authorities are well experienced in dealing with demand for tickets that well outweighs capacity. Cricket Australia has this ‘we know better’ notion when it comes to England and English cricket, which may have had some relevance in the 1990’s but certainly isn’t the right mindset in 2006.
I’m not concerned in the slightest that Australian grounds will be full of visiting Englishmen this summer; the tourist boom to the economy will be well worth it, and it will teach the good for nothing, fat, lazy, whining Australian public to appreciate Test cricket more. I’m fed up to the back teeth of going to half-empty Test grounds. And, yes, I do have my tickets, if not for my home Adelaide Test, but I did get tickets for Boxing Day. 100,000 fans on the MCG for an Ashes Test; a dream come true for someone like me that cares far more for Test Cricket, and Ashes Cricket as the pinnacle of Australian Test Cricket.
Happy New Year
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of January, 8 Comments »
Happy New Year to all my five readers. In cricketing terms, it’s unlikely 2006 can top last year for drama and thrills (and spills, Pietersen…) but you never know.
8 Comments »What are your predictions for 2006?
By Will 3 years ago, at the end of December, 4 Comments »
Yes I know. It’s that time of the year; when “reviews” are aplenty, the foolhardy make new years’ promises - and people look to the next year to right their wrongs and all that kind of stuff. But if you can’t beat them…
So. 2005 was utterly memorable and brilliant (mainly for English fans…but hopefully the world in general too), far outweighing my own aspirations last December. What about 2006? Give me one aspect/event you think will happen during the course of the next 12 months…and one other thing you’d like to happen. Open debate…and, naturally, cricket related (however vague!)
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