Caught (Dropped!) In The Memory
Feb 25, 2013 So ends another Ashes summer
Feb 25, 2013 So ends another Ashes summer
Feb 25, 2013 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
Feb 25, 2013 Let us begin by listing the signs of promising improvement seen in the Australian cricket team today
Feb 25, 2013 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
Feb 25, 2013 He awoke a Test cricketer, and for the rest of the day being awake felt dreamier than the deepest sleep
Feb 25, 2013 Speaking of a sick-in-the-gut feeling, that’s when it hit me, a creeping unease
Feb 25, 2013 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
Feb 25, 2013 The final week of the fourth fastest-scoring year in Test history – 3.34 runs an over, and counting – is upon us
Feb 25, 2013 “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
Feb 25, 2013 “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.