Why England couldn’t cope with Agar
BOY-bowler Ashton Agar’s demolition of one of cricket’s most potent bowling attacks was like walking round the block and then strolling up Everest.
BOY-bowler Ashton Agar’s demolition of one of cricket’s most potent bowling attacks was like walking round the block and then strolling up Everest.
RICKY Ponting has bowed out of first-class cricket in deserving style with a commanding 169 not out for English county Surrey.
ENGLAND will consider making an official complaint after demanding clarification on two decisions that left them on the back foot in the first Ashes Test.
YOU will have read of late that the England cricket team are very good at cricket. This was a mistake.
ENGLISH cyclist Mark Cavendish was hit by urine and insults hurled from the crowd, and then had an apology thrown back in his face at the Tour de France.
MANCHESTER UNITED hopes a sciatica problem will not force captain Nemanja Vidic to miss its three-week tour to Asia and Australia.
TURKEY’S hopes of staging the 2020 Olympic s could be wrecked by the latest drug sting to hit the country’s sporting reputation.
THERE’S a danger that the kind of intense competition that has characterised the best of the Ashes will be hard to sustain over 10 Tests in just six months.
SIR DONALD Bradman used to say that he would sooner bat on a good English pitch than any other, and the best of those in his day was Trent Bridge.
GRAEME Swann’s humour and wit make a strong shield against nerves and the scale of an impending Ashes series meant that he was on top form yesterday.
SO, you want to be the next Judy Murray? It is a worthy ambition. Although sporting parents often get a rotten press, the reality is very different.
ANDY MURRAY could not have known what a perfect fit it would be when he chose to hire the former world No1 Ivan Lendl as coach.
MITCHELL Starc, the man earmarked by Andrew Strauss as a significant threat, is unruffled at the prospect of being taunted during the Ashes series.
WHAT is the difference between a great player and a champion? It’s not just winning, it’s deeper: a quirk of mind, or personality, perhaps something marrow-deep.
WHEN James Horwill, the Australia captain, was interviewed soon after the match over the stadium communications system, the thousands of Lions followers gave him both barrels.
AUSTRALIA and Britain have more in common than history: multiculturalism, sport, combativeness.
IT’S a less macho game, with fewer verbals.
FORTUNE favours the brave, and I had the bravest on my side.
MARION BARTOLI likes cats. Loves them. Thinks she will be one in her next life. And once you know that, everything makes sense.
TWENTY years after Shane Warne’s Ashes “ball of the century”, two Australian brothers have devised a mathematical formula to help replicate it.
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