E. Regnans identifies a crash or crash through, high risk high-rewards approach from teams in this World Cup, He thinks India might be the one. But I suspect he will be happy with contests where the ball talks and wickets matter.
ICC World Cup 2015: Following without seeing
March 19, 2015 by 6 Comments
E Regnans’ 2015 ICC World Cup cricket coverage has been sans visual coverage so far. The written word and the internet has sated his cricketing appetite thus far. And butter chicken… (includes the #TimeHonoured E Regnan’s Butter Chicken recipe for free. You’re welcome).
ICC World Cup 2015 – England v Bangladesh: The adventures of colony march
March 10, 2015 by 13 Comments
David Wilson with a scene-setting description of this clash of World Cup minnows; England v Bangladesh, Adelaide.
ICC World Cup – New Zealand v Australia: Woodface
March 1, 2015 by 14 Comments
ERegnans has had enough of MJ Clarke with his moaning and bully boy tactics. Has he got a Woodface as well as a tin ear? A game with four seasons in one day but in the end it’s only natural for BB McCullum’s kiwis.
ICC World Cup 2015 – Ireland v West Indies: The arrival
February 16, 2015 by 13 Comments
E.Regnans relays the World Cup description from a Derry front bar as the Irish chase down a big target set by the Windies.
ICC World Cup 2015 – India v Pakistan: Kohli as ever (of course, of course)
February 16, 2015 by 5 Comments
E Regnans with cricket, philosophy and the way the bouncy Adelaide Oval has become an Indian homeground. Fate, chaos and good bounce. [Creative – Ed]
57 Mt Pleasant Street (part 4): it’s the fun, stupid
February 4, 2015 by 4 Comments
“It can’t be that simple, can it?” E.regnans on the one link that binds all sports across all countries across all the years. Sport reporting has never been so existential.
Part time professionals: Win-Win-Win (Another Day Meanders By)
February 4, 2015 by 8 Comments
The Million Dollar Question: the shut-in professionalism of modern day football or the more rounded benefits of part-time football?
SCG Test, Australia v India – Day One: Playlist
January 6, 2015 by 8 Comments
E.regnans turns to music and video to describe Day 1, SCG, Scenes 1-5.
SCG Test, Australia v India – Call for writers
January 4, 2015 by 13 Comments
The Sydney Test begins on Tuesday. The is the last Test match until June in the West Indies. Prospective story-tellers, get on board. All welcome.
Celebrating Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize 2014: footy
January 4, 2015 by 23 Comments
Richard Flanagan’s magnificent work: “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” was awarded the Man Booker Prize 2014 for fiction in London. This novel, of and by a Tasmanian, includes footy. To celebrate, here is a wonderful school yard scene; “and then began the magic of kick to kick…” [Great to read Paul Daffey’s reference to this Almanac thread in his Sunday Age column today (4-Jan-15)]
MCG Test, Australia v India: Day Three – The struggle (within, without)
December 28, 2014 by 20 Comments
A solitary ERegnans takes in Day 3 at the MCG and muses on life, cricket, arrogance and all that stuff.
MCG Test, Australia v India: Call for cricket writers
December 23, 2014 by 15 Comments
Almanackers old and new are invited to submit their stories of the 2014 MCG Test. What did you notice? Where were you? Let us know your preferred day.
SPD Smith: shake it off
December 21, 2014 by 3 Comments
E.regnans spots similarities between the bearing of SPD Smith and that of Taylor Swift.
Gabba Test, Australia v India – Day One: From the sauna, 57 Mt Pleasant Street
December 17, 2014 by 7 Comments
Slippery Stan and BJ pull no punches in their wrap-up of day one at the Gabba from 57 Mt Pleasant St. “Well apart from the toss, the over rate and the leaking of runs in the last hour, [Smith] did beautifully…”
Gabba Test: writers’ schedule (get involved)
December 17, 2014 by 16 Comments
The second Test starts on Wednesday. It’s true. Almanac writers are called upon to follow up stellar Adelaide Test efforts with a pre-Christmas surge to Brisbane. Get involved. Nominate a day. Carn Test cricket.
Adelaide Test, Australia v India – Day One: Ride on
December 9, 2014 by 10 Comments
E.regnans is taken by Clarrie Grimmett to the ride. It is Test match morning in Adelaide and it is time to ride on. Ride on. “…and DA Warner is galloping now not under the swarming sky but amidst it and a part of it…”
Calling for contributions: Adelaide Test
December 8, 2014 by 23 Comments
And so Test cricket is set to commence. E.Regnans summons all Almanackers to do their duty for Phil and country, and nominate for reporting on a day’s play in Adelaide. Multiple nominations for each day welcomed – more viewpoints stimulate debate.
57 Mt Pleasant Street (part 2)
December 1, 2014 by 2 Comments
BJ has Stan cast his eyes over the week just gone. “What does it all mean, Stan?”
Inside the closed head injury
November 27, 2014 by 29 Comments
The serious head injury to cricketer Phil Hughes has shocked everyone and sparked a range of responses. David Wilson has previously shared his experience with serious head injury in a car accident (he counts his recovery as the “luckiest of the lucky”) and offers some personal, clinical and philosophical insights into the journey.
Recent Comments