Yesterday’s papers today: Broadcasting the Ashes 1928 1932
Broadcasting the Ashes of 1928-29 and 1932-33 – some clippings from the newspapers of the time as preserved by Trove, the glorious digital archive hosted by the National Library of Australia: https://twitter.com/rickeyrecricket/status/933042334727471104
A bit of light reading about the 1999-2000 England womens tour
England’s women’s cricket team headed to the Antipodes in January 2000 to play one-day internationals in Australia and New Zealand. By the time they were ready to head east across the Tasman, England had lost the ODI series to Australia 0-4 and Karen Smithies had resigned as captain. Working for Cricinfo at the time I […]
Australia’s one-day competition: 49 not out
Australia’s male domestic one-day competition ends its 49th season today at Blundstone Arena, Bellerive, with South Australia playing Western Australia. Shunted to the October pre-season but still a more substantial competition than the V&G Knockout or Gillette Cup of its early years, as the JLT One-Day Cup it now sports its eleventh naming rights sponsor. […]
Cricket in the Olympics? (1996 edition)
Cricket has made just one appearance in Olympic competition, in the second games of the modern olympiad, held in Paris in 1900.
London 2012 Day After One: Party like it’s 1948
The Olympic Games are over. Now let’s take some deep breaths, and take some time to get the euphoria out of our systems before reflecting on what it all means.
A hundred years of Bradman
August 27, 2008 – a day of celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Donald George Bradman. And they celebrated at his birthplace, Cootamundra, the hometown of his youth, Bowral, and in a black tie dinner at the business end of Sydney. Has any other sportsperson, in any sport, anywhere in the […]
Twenty21 revisited
If we didn’t know before, we do now. Australia’s 5-0 drubbing of England in 2006-07 is the first such triumph since 1920-21. But which was the bigger achievement?
Ashes 2005: Third Test Old Trafford
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Bart King must be spinning in his grave today
It’s a hundred years since Bart King, America’s greatest cricketer of all time, graced the playing fields of both his own country and of England as a world-class all-rounder. It was Sunday, August 6, 1905, that five thousand people watched a New York XI lose by fifty runs to the MCC in a two-day game […]
Presenting… the Midwinter-Midwinter
You can take your Border-Gavaskar, Compton-Miller, Chappell-Hadlee, even your Peden-Archdale… I am now unveiling, belatedly but otherwise as promised, the name of my award for the Ashes Player of the Tournament. Presenting: the Midwinter-Midwinter. Who needs to invoke the names of two legends when you can honour one person twice?