previously at the SCG
Australia Putting England to sleep didn’t work, neither anything else. Not dead, but starting to stink up a touch. England Bowled really well, but bowled for show, the big jaggers are pretty whilst...
View Articlepreviously at the scg
Australia Tried hard, bless ‘em. England Were looking great, yet got a bit dead rubbered at stages. Lost the plot to Australia’s tail and losing key wickets. Sending out a nightwatchman for...
View ArticleThe Professionals win
Cricket isn’t a funny game, it’s a sadistic torture that we enjoy because each and every one of us is sick and wrong. I’ve been out here for weeks, and the feeling I have is more like being a prison...
View ArticleTwo pricks at the Ashes: Sydney Day 5 – England win 3-1
The ashes are over, and all I made is this video.
View ArticleSecret Ashes stuff from Gideon Haigh, Alan Tyers and Philip Pope
While you are waiting for the the pitch fork crowd to take down the ICC, you might want to enjoy a bit of reading. Surprisingly, Gideon Haigh has a new cricket book. I’ve only flicked through it for...
View ArticleAustralian Autopsy: How England Dissected Australia in the 2010/11 Ashes – oh...
Wait, don’t slash your wrists along the veins in the way that most hollywood films won’t show you. I can understand that you want to kill yourself because of general unease in the middle east, the...
View ArticlePreviously at the Ashes
“We were unlucky” “No, you batted like shit and you couldn’t get fucken Monty out” “I took a hat trick we will win these Ashes” “1/517, fuck.” “517/1, ROFL”. “Yes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no”. “Is...
View Article36 is not enough
The world’s pain is often etched on Peter Siddle’s face. Every groove and undulation tells the story of an extinct animal or a lost city. That is just when he is bowling, and even being successful....
View ArticleThings we’ve learnt after two days of the Mega Ashes
It was the punch heard around the world despite barely touching skin. David Warner started the mega Ashes with a bang. Many words were written, spoken, yelled. Essentially the whole world decided as...
View ArticleThe simple plan
James Anderson wasn’t looking at his captain. James Anderson wasn’t looking at the catcher. And James Anderson wasn’t even looking at Graeme Swann in the seconds after his Chris Rogers wicket. Anderson...
View ArticleJimmy did it
William Herschel just beat Australia. He died in 1882 but it was he who contorted Brad Haddin’s face, encouraged the England players to cheer and forced Marais Erasmus to tell Aleem Dar he’d made a...
View ArticleCricket Sadist Hour’s Starc Luxury with special guest star Mark Butcher
Here we talk cancer. Can you feel an edge? Is Watson the shit KP? What would happen if Jimmy was to McGrath himself? Differing opinions over the greatest 37 ever made.
View ArticleIan Bell’s wonder years
Had Mark Waugh beheaded an alien invader with a spork while bombs fell around him, he would have done it gracefully. That was just how he was. It also meant that had Mark Waugh failed to tame a wayward...
View ArticleReviewing Watson
Shane Watson’s ESPNcricinfo profile is smiling at me. It shouldn’t be. It should be looking sheepish. It should be apologising. It should be trying to show me that he’s changed, that he’s learnt and...
View ArticleAustralia: An almost value for money team
“Fans pay good money to come watch our athletes perform and I’d like to think they got their money’s worth over the five days of the first Test.” Darren Lehmann. For AUS$7,959 you can follow the...
View ArticleDreaming and Planning Ashes victories
Any fan of science fiction will know that no matter how good and impenetrable the machines, robots or alien overlords, eventually the humans will find the weakness. Neo sees the matrix in code. Jeff...
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