Reach For The Stars

The Cricket World Cup came alive this week as the Super 8 stages of the tournament came to a close. Up until now it has meandered along with some uninspring and one-sided encounters usually involving Australia dismissing all before them with an unstoppable flourish. However, in a thoroughly irrelevant match because both sides had already been eliminated, between West Indies and England, we got to see 600 runs, 19 wickets and a near-as you can get to a last ball finish. If the whole competition had been just half this good it would

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Tags: 24, Cricket, Dalek, David Tennant, Desmond, Doctor Who, England, General, Lost, Sky-Sports, West-Indies, World-Cup

Didn’t It Look Good For a While?

The pain has eased. The emotions are back in check. I feel like I can talk about it at last. Time, they tell me, is a great healer but it will take much more time for the wounds of this debacle to fully heal, it may take years. England fought back against the Aussies in the second test in Adelaide. After the humbling performance at the Gabba, fighting back was all they could do and for four days it wasn’t going too badly at all… 551-6 declared and the hosts reduced to 74-3, Ponting balloons the

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Tags: Adelaide, Ashes, Australia, Brisbane, Cricket, England, Freddie-Flintoff, Gabba, Perth, Ricky-Ponting, Shane-Warne, Sky-Sports, Sport

Back to Square One

Next Thursday sees the England Cricket team begin their defence of the Ashes against Australia, and with the fun, excitement and thrills of last summer’s amazing series still fresh in the mind, it’s all set to be great entertainment.� The tourists did not start out as well as hoped when they got thoroughly beaten in their opening match by a Prime Minister’s XI.� Oddly though, it was a 50-over match… quite who thought that it was a good idea to begin the preparations with a

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Tags: Ashes, Australia, Cricket, England, Marcus-Trescothick, Sky-Sports, Sport