The Ashes is so important to young Paddy Grindlay that he writes with the CAPS on. He just has one request for Ashton Agar – can you open the batting?
I Dreamed A Dream
July 12, 2013 by 7 Comments
Ashton Agar stole my dream. The one I’ve been having recurrently for the past 30 years. Or more correctly, he lived it.
First Test – Day 2: Agar the Audacious
July 12, 2013 by 15 Comments
It was clear early that Agar knew what he was doing. His early couple of strokes showed a decent technique yet still combined with a cavalier flair expected from a 19-year-old number 11 in his first test.
The All-rounder, Davo’s Drop and Another Ball of the Century
July 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Very easy to relate to these cricket characters.
First Test – Day 1: Who is Ashton Agar?
July 11, 2013 by 13 Comments
The hopes of an entire nation will rest on the shoulders of Steve Smith and Phil Hughes when day 2 starts. A scary thought for most of us, a huge opportunity for the maligned duo.
Andrew Starkie’s Ashes Diary (entry 1): The Bogan is back
July 10, 2013 by 5 Comments
Boof has brought back The Bogan and suddenly the Australian team is happy again. Maybe this is the natural state for our national sporting team: a few laughs, a few beers, the odd verbal spray, fewer power point presentations, less sports science.
Crio’s Question: Favourite Ashes presenters
July 9, 2013 by 12 Comments
What are your favourite Ashes presenters, past and present? Dream Teams, if you must!
Middle Australia selects the Ashes Test Team
July 6, 2013 by 4 Comments
Can anyone come up with the likely team for the First test? Given that Watson and Rogers are likely to open, here is my prediction and perhaps why – The Editor.
How football cost us the 2005 Ashes
June 29, 2013 by 9 Comments
A crackerjack piece from Mickey Randall which will grab anyone who’s ever ducked over to Europe for a while. This is how Australians experience the world and its cricket. [A ripper, and sure to trigger some memories in all of us – Ed]
Lehmann Academy link up with the Flinders for Junior Sri Lankan Tour
June 26, 2013 by 2 Comments
James Lang is proud to report that 15yo Crystal Brook cricketer Jake Wohling has a scholarship to tour Sri Lanka and compete against some of the best school-aged cricketers from around the world. It’s an enormous coup for cricket in the Mid North and Flinders Region.
Whither the Ashes?
June 24, 2013 by 3 Comments
Join Gideon Haigh, John Harms and Jim Young and talk all things cricket at Melbourne University on June 27.
ICC Champions Trophy- Australia v Sri Lanka: Bundled out without a win
June 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Australia is bundled out of the ICC Trophy without a win and, on this performance, Luke Reynolds has a feeling our one-day fortunes will get worse before they get better.
Jim Higgs and David Parkin talk cricket (and possibly the meaning of life)
June 17, 2013 by 1 Comment
Former Test spinner Jim “Glad” Higgs and football legend David Parkin will speak at the annual Lord’s Taveners Australia charity dinner on June 18. Get your tickets now.
The Young and the Restless
June 16, 2013 by 4 Comments
“Davey; Davey my boy…………………..It’s Herman your Agent. Have I got news for you Davey.”
ICC Champions Trophy – Australia v New Zealand: Voges stands up
June 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This game was washed out but Luke Reynolds examines the form of the Australian team with The Ashes looming.
Cricket Champions Trophy- England v Australia: George Bailey, we need you!
June 10, 2013 by 3 Comments
Has Mitchell Starc’s first ball of the summer – a half volley on leg stump – set the scene for the entire English summer? Luke Reynolds hopes not.
The Twilight School Rupertswood (June 26) – dinner with Gideon Haigh
June 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Twilight School @ Rupertswood- A community initiative of Salesian College, Sunbury for parents and adults and the community at large “learning for the sake of learning” in association with RUPERTSWOOD MANSION invites you to : “Getting behind the stumps” Gideon Haigh and John Harms in conversation on cricket [Read more]
England v New Zealand – First Test: Cricket, I’ve missed you
May 23, 2013 by 3 Comments
Is New Zealand’s fate to be forever the not quite team?
Cricket: Where’s Cozzie?
May 1, 2013 by 2 Comments
Rob McLean wonders whether there is a place for a 28 year-old stroke-maker with a love of all things crumbed in both the Australian and South Australian teams (or at least squads).
Ten random, frustrating, useless yet altogether important questions from the world of sport and music
April 29, 2013 by 5 Comments
The first few rounds of AFL, the pending Ashes tests and other observations from the sporting and music landscape have provoked a series of questions that I hope Almanac readers have answers to.
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