India v Australia

Can someone please comment at length on the collapse of Australia this morning?

It seems to me that they attempted to hit their way out of a crisis playing the 'aussie' way and came unstuck badly. if this is their tactic for next summer, they may well end up losing the ashes as it is predicable, over-confident and disrespectful of the opposition. They haven't quite woken up to the fact that the rest of the world are much closer to them than in the past even if they remain very good in many way and are not a push-over.

What does anyone else think?...other than the fact it is too soon to talk about the Ashes. Anyway, the India series against us could be very good.

Sachin is a legend

There is a lot to talk about to be found in this clip from you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxiHAW3xmdU&feature=related

Not least two brilliant googlies.

Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes...

Favourite cricket writer, please gents...

You can have a past and a present, if you which to add more grist to the mill.

Is it a straight choice between Athers and Selvey or are there others you bow to first?

India v Australia

I'm very much looking forward to reading about the India v Australia test series which starts tomorrow morning. The Aussies are going in with Watson at 6, Cameron White at 8, with Lee at 9, apparently. Are three front line bowlers and no proper spinner enough? Surely they can't be going for the draw? I'd like to think that they are for the sake of argument.

I was looking forward to jason krejza playing. Ponting:

"One positive coming from that game was I could hear all this yelling and screaming coming from the background and it was Jason on the boundary,"

Ponting said:

"He was really disappointed not to get another bowl. For me that was a good sign."

Does this mean that he's no good, but his attitude reflects enough Aussie sporting cliches for Ponting to want to select him....PLEASE let him play in next year's Ashes...

Kris, like racing green more than lime green...

"You guys are history"

Bit of archive action to cheers us all up...



He was blind as a bat, apparently - "plays by intuition, don't need no buzzers or bells"

Oh, and listen out for Gower at the start - excellent understatement.

World cup 1992

Just watching ESPN classic. Eng vs. SA 1992 World cup. Two things.

1. Phil DeFreitas was actually our best bowler by quite some way, and I seem to remember this being the case for quite some time.

2. Moustaches! This England line-up featured soup-strainers worn by Gooch, Lamb, Botham, DeFreitas and Richard Illingworth. Crikey. And what a team of fat fuckers too.

That is all.