The Surfer
In a piece in the Times , Aki Riihilati talks us through a heady period in English sport through a foreigner's lens: Excitement, big personalities, drama, sportsmanship, skill and a highly competitive mentality — the series offered everything
Excitement, big personalities, drama, sportsmanship, skill and a highly competitive mentality — the series offered everything that is good in sport. Most of all it made so many people happy and enthusiastic. From my car window I could see these people didn’t think of their mortgages or were worried what their bosses were going to say the next day at work. It was pure joy.
Michael Atherton takes us through the eight Ashes defeats he was present at, and contrasts them with this series
The unsure future of Australia’s previously dominant line-up has been a hot topic over the weekend
What do you do when an entire nation is collectively mourning the loss of the Ashes
Get the urn down there right now and start parading it around as soon as possible. Embed it in a huge, glass block in the middle of Melbourne, with a plaque on it: “The Ashes: Holders — England.
There are a few certainties in Australian cricket, writes Tim Lane in Sydney Morning Herald and explains why Shane Warne cannot be elevated to the captaincy, irrespective of what Ian Chappell, Dennis Lillee or an entire generation thinks.
It was as if instead of Sourav Ganguly there was an imposter at the crease, writes Harsha Bhogle in the Indian Express , as he evaluates Ganguly's century at Bulawayo
[H]is innings [was] a six-hour exercise in self-denial.
Andrew Culf writes in the Guardian that England must "bottle this feeling", and grasp "an extraordinary opportunity to reinvigorate the game at the grassroots."
Cricket has so many theatrical moments, characters, plots, sub-plots, twists, sub-twists ..
Mike Haysman celebrates Richie Benaud's unique style behind the microphone - calm, warm and polite.
