2009 My Test live-tweeting debut
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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). […]
Peter Handscomb after scoring his career-best 215 for Victoria
Peter Handscomb after completing 215 for Victoria against New South Wales. #SheffieldShield #NSWvVic #SCG A post shared by Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) on Nov 17, 2016 at 8:02pm PST Peter Handscomb leaving the field at the Sydney Cricket Ground on November 18 after completing his highest first-class score of 215 for Victoria against New […]
Big Show by The Big Show: A 2014 cricket highlight
Victoria Bitter? No, that’s just the advertising. New South Wales defeated Victoria by an innings and 48 runs in two and a half days at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 14 February 2014. This was despite the best efforts of Glenn “The Big Show” Maxwell who scored 94 for the Vics in their first innings […]
Sydney Day Four: Goodbye, farewell, amen, and John did you drop something?
Not since the Harlem Globetrotters last beat the Washington Generals has a foregone sporting conclusion been so rapturously and emotionally received by a sell-out crowd.
Sydney Day Three: You did *what* for an MBE?
“You got an MBE, right? For scoring seven at the Oval? It’s an embarrassment.” – Dr Shane Warne to Paul Collingwood MBE, Sydney Cricket Ground, 4.1.07.
Sydney Day One: Con te partiro
Imagine an artist at the canvas on the boundary fence of a packed SCG on the opening day of the New Years Test. Imagine Jack Russell, brush in hand, white floppy hat, characteristic moustache, outlining the curves of Aussie Stadium peeking from behind the Noble Stand, the clock on the Members Stand showing a quarter […]
Australia by 9 wickets
In the end it took about an hour short of four days for Australia to wrap up the series. Not quite as close as the equivalent Test on the SCG 32 years earlier which set alight my interest in the game.
Day 2: Cough up Danish
For giving Pratten Park Golden Boy Michael J Clarke a “far cough” after having him stumped at the SCG yesterday, Danish Kaneria is coughing up.
Day 1: Enter the pantheon, Salman Butt
Five wickets for twenty runs. If Pakistan were consistent, they’d be dangerous.