Cricket

Fanatics disgrace Australia

Australia is  meant to be the country of a ‘fair go’ but the supposed “fanatics,” by admitting that they set off the fire alarm at the England cricket team’s hotel on the eve of the recent Ashes test at Headingley have overstepped

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