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It’s back to the 80s day for Australian cricket
December 24, 1984: Australia loses a women’s Test to England.
September 19, 1988: Australia follows on in a men’s Test match against Pakistan.
August 27, 2005: The next occasion that Australia follows on in a men’s Test.
August 27, 2005: The next occasion Australia loses a women’s Test match.
Happy 97th, Sir Don.
ICC awards night for Sydney
A great English victory beckons
Something I thought I would never see, well not in this decade anyway, appears to be unfolding at New Road, Worcester, today.
It’s lunch on Day Three of the Second Women’s Test between England and Australia. The visitors made 131 in their first innings. England, after being 227 for 9 at the close of the second day, advanced to 289 all out. Australia faced sixteen overs before lunch. They are currently 13 for 3. Continue reading “A great English victory beckons”
Worcester Test Day One
Nothing will stop me from cursing the England and Wales Cricket Board for their counterproductive policy of scheduling women’s tours simultaneously with the men. There’s an important, indeed, sudden-death women’s Test match going on at New Road, Worcester which is being totally eclipsed for media attention by the most riveting men’s Ashes series in almost a quarter of a century. Continue reading “Worcester Test Day One”
It must be election time in the big apple
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is on the pork barrel trail in the lead-up to the November 8 city elections.
Bloomberg kicked off a busy meet-the-people Saturday with a photo op at St Alban’s Park, Queens, which he announced would receive $1.5 million of city funding for the building of a dedicated cricket ground. It will only be the second specialist cricket venue in contemporary New York. Continue reading “It must be election time in the big apple”
Nurdle?
Thursday’s Christian Science Monitor has a rather confused article by Mark Rice-Oxley titled Cricket makes a comeback in Britain. Continue reading “Nurdle?”
Geraint, Blessing, World snub shock
Geraint Jones, Blessing Mahwire and Tapash Baisya are among the shock omissions from the thirteen-man ICC World XI chosen to play Australia in a six-day exhibition game at the Sydney Cricket Ground in October. Continue reading “Geraint, Blessing, World snub shock”
England defeat Australia by two runs
Deja vu all over again? Maybe. But England’s two-run victory over Australia in the women’s one-day international at Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday was a quite historic occasion. Continue reading “England defeat Australia by two runs”