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 […]
Dr King and I
Radio interview for Community Radio Network program “Access Internet” in about December 1996. It’s a ten minute feature on CricInfo, mostly comprising an interview with CricInfo’s founder Dr Simon King. You’ll also hear some comments from one Rick Eyre, the majority of whose interview ended up on the cutting room floor.
Was this the greatest World Cup final ever?
“Today’s game – won by New Zealand by four runs with five balls remaining – was filled to the brim with drama and tension. For me, it surpasses the encounter at Lord’s in 1975 between the West Indies and Australia as the greatest World Cup Final, men’s or women’s, of all time.” More of my […]
If in doubt, blame the umpire
It’s always the umpire’s fault.
Murali no-balled for throwing
I wrote this article, filed at the innings break in England’s ODI against Sri Lanka at Adelaide Oval, for the 23 January 1999 edition of the daily email publication Cricinfo365. The complete day’s edition is sourced from archive.org’s Wayback Machine here.
Ricky Ponting’s public humiliation
I wrote this unbylined article for the 21 January 1999 edition of email publication Cricinfo365. The complete edition is sourced from archive.org’s Wayback Machine here. This article is also available on Cricinfo at http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/80456.html.