Haven’t We Been Here Before?

The dust has settled, the palpitations have died down and another Ashes series is consigned to both the collective memory and the pages of Wisden. Perhaps lacking the national fervour that surrounded the 2005 series, and studiously avoiding all mention of the calamitous 2006/7 tour Down Under, we will not quickly forget the cricketing summer of 2009. Criminally, there was limited terrestrial coverage of the series with it being reduced to the ignominy of a 45-minute early evening helping served up manfully by Mark Nicholas

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Tags: 2009, Ashes, Australia, Broad, Cricket, England, Flintoff, Ponting, Strauss, Urn

On The Sofa, Not Behind It

20th July 2009 is a day to remember! Is it because it is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings? Not exactly, no. Is it, perhaps, because Freddie Flintoff has become some kind of cricketing deity by taking five wickets during England’s  historic victory over the old enemy at Lords? No. (Well, may be a little bit). Or is it because filming is now underway on the newest incarnation of the adventures of our favourite Time Lord? Could be.

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Tags: Apollo 11, Benjamin Cook, Cricket, Flintoff, Karen Gillan, Lizo Mzimba, Matt Smith, Moon, Series 5, TARDIS, Tom Baker