My Funeral, Your Ashes

My Funeral, Your Ashes

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The Hangman’s Way

At six past midday on Wednesday, Alastair Cook got a ball that was neither wide nor full and he greeted it like a stork helping itself to water

Alastair Cook finally fell to Shane Watson 11 short of a double-century

Fawlty Hours

Let us begin by listing the signs of promising improvement seen in the Australian cricket team today

Don't hassle the Hoff: David Hasselhoff at the SCG

Pupwatch

The world moves in apt and mysterious ways, and so it was that on Michael Clarke’s first afternoon as Australia’s captain in the field David Hasselhoff was sitting in the crowd

Usman Khawaja pulls during his Test debut

Sweet Fifteen

He awoke a Test cricketer, and for the rest of the day being awake felt dreamier than the deepest sleep

Kevin Pietersen gestures at his bat after a disputed review decision

That old greyhound squint

When Ricky Ponting wakes up on Test match morning, he is not the type to help himself to muesli and a Swisse Men’s Ultivite pill only to spend the next half-hour wondering whether he should have gone for a couple of bananas instead

Letting go

The final week of the fourth fastest-scoring year in Test history – 3.34 runs an over, and counting – is upon us

Kevin Pietersen failed to cling on to a stinging chance of Shane Watson's bat in the third over

Gone fishing

“In a pond with no fish,” goes an old Russian saying, “a crab is a fish.” Twenty-first century Australian cricket throws up numerous variations on this

The (woman's) style is the man

“Each profession begets its particular style of play,” wrote that master back-of-a-postcard essayist RC Robertson-Glasgow, in the days when cricketers had day jobs.