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05th Aug 2009 at 15:34 | 15 views
At the start of the Edgbaston Test it was Phillip Hughes who caused a stir in the on-line world by announcing his exclusion from the Australian Test team via a message on the social networking site &q...
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03rd Aug 2009 at 16:23 | 9 views
These are my marks out of 10 for the 22 players who drew the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston. ENGLAND Andrew Strauss - 7. Another lovely innings from England's most in-form player, and in some of the h...
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03rd Aug 2009 at 16:22 | 14 views
And so the Edgbaston Ashes Test, essentially ruined by the rain despite England's best attempts to manufacture something special on the second and fourth days, ended in the most stale of stalemates. M...
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02nd Aug 2009 at 16:24 | 10 views
Andrew Flintoff's Test career is running on vapours. When he bats, running between the wickets is a struggle. Every ball he bowls causes him pain, and when a team-mate gets a wicket he looks too exhau...
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29th Jul 2009 at 15:52 | 13 views
So the Ashes battle resumes at Edgbaston on Thursday, a ground which holds some pretty good memories for England in recent clashes against Australia. Four years ago, of course, it was the scene of one...
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20th Jul 2009 at 15:53 | 18 views
When England last beat Australia in an Ashes Test at Lord's the world population was 2.2 billion. It is now 6.7 billion, the land speed record was 272mph, now it's 764mph and the average house price w...
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12th Jul 2009 at 15:59 | 13 views
What is it about these Ashes Test matches? As I left the hotel in Cardiff on Sunday morning I joked to some of my colleagues that what the series needed was England's last pair hanging on for a drama...
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09th Jul 2009 at 09:39 | 14 views
Reliving cricket's greatest rivalry With the 2009 Ashes almost upon us we are all wondering what great moments of cricket history are going to be created over the next seven weeks. Cricket's greate...
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26th Jun 2009 at 09:40 | 17 views
No instant impact from Hauritz At a seaside ground so genteel that the man on the tannoy feels it is appropriate to offer a lady spectator best wishes on her 62nd birthday, Australia's Ashes preparat...
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24th Jun 2009 at 11:02 | 16 views
New-look Aussies out to take Ashes chance It's finally here. After England's early summer curtain-raiser Test series against West Indies and the entertaining two-week ICC World Twenty20 to whet the a...
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18th Jun 2009 at 12:49 | 21 views
My World Twenty20 predictions After a highly eventful 12 days at Trent Bridge, the Oval and Lord's the ICC World Twenty20 is reaching its climax over the next few days with the semi-finals and finals...
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17th Jun 2009 at 15:02 | 21 views
England World Twenty20 player ratings England crashed out of the ICC World Twenty20 against West Indies after a dramatic night at the Oval. Having beaten India on Sunday, this time they left their bo...
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11th May 2009 at 15:33 | 18 views
The players have arrived; their security has arrived; a cyclone has apparently arrived and, if you look very closely, a small pocket of England supporters has slowly begun to arrive in Chennai in time...
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11th May 2009 at 15:33 | 23 views
In the same way that there are plenty of people who can stomach neither Wagner's Ring Cycle nor a Girls Aloud concert, there is some middle ground between the elegant sanctity of Test cricket and the ...
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11th May 2009 at 15:33 | 18 views
The first thing that engulfs you when you arrive in Mumbai is the smell: it seeps through the air cavities of the walkway as you step off the plane; it hits you flush in the face when you emerge out o...
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