A hundred
The Hundred is a camel designed by a Horse Committee. A Horse Committee specially convened despite all the perfectly fine thoroughbreds grazing the paddock.
The Seventh Test Sydney 1971
On Wednesday August 1 2018 at Edgbaston an England team walks on the field to begin a Test match for the 1000th time. Among the reflections, the listicles and the shallow on-line polls, people have been choosing their greatest and/or favourite Test matches of the previous 999 (actually 1004 if you count washouts and cancellations). […]
The grim trial of strength that went mainstream: women’s Test cricket
Before the Australian women’s cricket team played their touring England counterparts in Brisbane in December 1934, the following directive appeared in the Courier Mail: No one in the press or elsewhere paid any attention to this instruction, and the first women’s Test match concluded at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground on New Year’s Eve 1934, […]
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 […]
Today In Cricket History July 31
July 31, 2017: Moeen Ali takes a hat-trick with the final three deliveries of The Oval Test to give England victory by 239 runs. Here’s the hat-trick ball: YESSSS!! HAT-TRICK for @MoeenAli and we win by 239 runs! #ENGvSAhttps://t.co/a0qhO1p3jy pic.twitter.com/3vIKblgg5B — England Cricket (@englandcricket) July 31, 2017
ICC Womens Cricket World Cup Final 2017, England v India
Highlights from the final of the eleventh Womens Cricket World Cup
Trevor Bayliss, head coach of England
Trevor Bayliss is one of those rare breed of New South Wales cricketers – one who never seriously threatened for Australian selection! A consistent batsman in Sheffield Shield cricket over a number of years while the Waughs, Taylors and Bevans were spending much of their time away on Test or one-day duty.
Eng-ger-land…. sigh
“The performance in the Ashes series has been a great disappointment and a number of lessons must be learned. This review will be comprehensive and broad ranging with the clear objective of regaining the Ashes in 2009 and significantly improving England’s results in one-day international cricket in the next four year cycle.” – ECB chief […]
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, […]
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 […]