Cricket

The Spirit of Cricket Alive and Well.

Good to see that cricket can still be classed as a game where the players know the difference between right and wrong and how a gentleman should react. England Captain Andrew Strauss’s decision to allow Graham Manou to replace the

Hughes a Twit? Or Victim of Technology?

So Philip Hughes twittered that he had been dropped from the Australian test cricket team, and he is being lambasted for it. Sadly the 20 year old is a victim of youth and the selectors not aware of the way

This day in sport: 22 July 1995

Cricket’s Larwood dies. Lightning quick England bowler Harold Larwood died in Sydney, aged 90. He was the key figure in the infamous ‘Bodyline’ Test series of 1932-33, when England captain Douglas Jardine instructed him to bowl ‘leg theory’ at the

Hats off to Ponting

Like him or hate him full credit to Ricky Ponting for not hiding behind the poor umpiring decisions that saw Australia lose their first Ashes test at Lords for 75 years. ‘At the end of the day we were beaten

This day in sport: 24 June 1974

India struggles with lowest Lord’s total in cricket. Following-on, 327 runs behind England in the 2nd Test at Lord’s, India made just 42 for their lowest ever Test score, and the lowest ever total in a Lord’s Test. England quicks