The First Test of the 2009 Ashes series was played at Cardiff. Day one saw England bat impressively. John Harms took up the action on Day two.
Australia v New Zealand – Gabba Test, Day 2: Beach Cricket, Olympics & Bondi
November 7, 2015 by 15 Comments
Luke Reynolds on one of the most tumultuous days in cricket history. Really.
From Many Wins to the Must Win
April 3, 2010 by 3 Comments
By Paddy O’Keeffe The 2009/10 summer of cricket has finished. More than 120 days ago, Jerome Taylor trapped Watson plumb in front for nothing. Taylor would only contribute a further 8 overs to the summer, while Watson made up for lost time by scoring a mountain of runs. Much has changed in the time that [Read more]
Down at the Basin
March 27, 2010 by 1 Comment
By Patrick O’Keefe When I was a kid, New Zealand seemed like such an exotic location to be playing cricket. I could get my head around a cricket match being played on the subcontinent. It is hot there. Cricket is played when it is hot. I could follow that logic. I think I grew up [Read more]
Cricket: The Summer of Cricket. Or was it the Season of Watto?
February 24, 2010 by 1 Comment
By John Butler Whilst lowering the curtain on the slow death that was the Hobart Test, Exalted Supremo of the Almanac, Paul Daffey, declared it had been a strange summer. Amen to that! The date was 18 January. It seems a very long time ago. As the Australian team returned from an ill-fated Ashes campaign, [Read more]
Third Test, Day 2: Ponting a chance for the Camira?
January 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by John Harms We are on the Newell Highway. At last. Just south of Goondiwindi. Stumps have just been drawn at Bellrive; a couple of disastrous run outs ruining the Pakistanis day . The Handicapper has taken the wheel. The kids have been very good, sleeping from Michael Clarke’s dismissal, all the way to Pakistan [Read more]
Third Test, Day 1: Dysfunction, thy name is Pakistan
January 14, 2010 by 2 Comments
3rd Test Australia v Pakistan at Bellerive Oval, Hobart Day 1, Thursday 14 January 2010 [Stumps score: Aust 3/302. Ponting 137*, Clarke 111*.] by Tony Roberts Preview My return to work having blessedly liberated me from reliance on Channel Nine or the ABC’s deteriorating radio commentary, I followed the first day of this match via [Read more]
Second Test, Day 4: Australia accomplishes Mission Impossible
January 6, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Andrew Gigacz Day 4 dawns cloudy for Australia, literally and metaphorically. A lead of 80 with two wickets remaining has even the most optimistic of us in doubt. But optimistic I remain and prior to the start of player, I go searching for the silver lining in those clouds. And I find it. Australia’s [Read more]
Mysteries and Demons revisited: An Australian miracle, a Pakistani collapse.
January 6, 2010 by 4 Comments
They call it Test cricket because it has a tendency to test all your resources, both mental and psychical. I wrote yesterday of demons and mysteries. At that stage, it was Australia battling the demons, and Pakistan which held all the mystery. Well, as they say, a day is a long time in cricket (and [Read more]
Mysteries and Demons: Not a Dan Brown sequel, but a Pakistani blockbuster
January 5, 2010 by 2 Comments
Pakistan has always been one of the most fascinating cricketing nations; though not always for the right reasons. There’s usually an alleged teenage prodigy of indeterminate age, who often turns out to be 26 years old and a father of three; the continual unexplained revolving door of captains, coaches and virtually everyone else in the [Read more]
Second Test, Day 2: Akmal misses 50, Dips’s daughter misses the 48 tram
January 4, 2010 by 3 Comments
By Damian O’Donnell The first day back at work is the second day of the second Test in Sydney. The first Pakistan wicket to fall is actually the second (after North dropped a dolly), and the first time I heard a live score was when the second wicket fell. The radio is playing quietly in [Read more]
Second Test, Day 1: Mohammads make a mountain for Aussies to climb
January 3, 2010 by 4 Comments
By Steve Healy A few days ago, I told my good friend Gigs that I’d be able to report on day one of the cricket. But after doing so, I realised that the Test started on Sunday, the day we were hosting my sister’s Italian boyfriend (who came to Australia on Wednesday) for a barbeque [Read more]
Ridiculous things you really didn’t need to know about this Test match
January 3, 2010 by 26 Comments
By Andrew Gigacz AUSTRALIA IN SYDNEY is an anagram of IN A RAINY DAY TUSSLE. PAKISTAN IN SYDNEY? is an anagram of YES! AND STAY IN PINK! DRAW IN SYDNEY is an anagram of DRY ENDS. I YAWN. A TIE IN SYDNEY is an anagram of I.E. DENY SANITY. Australia were [Read more]
First Test, Day 4: Aamer red hot, Healy red-faced
December 31, 2009 by 32 Comments
By Steve Healy Going to the Boxing Day test is a rarity for me, in actual fact I’ve only been twice before. Last year on day three, and in 2005 on day four. On both occasions, the visiting team was South Africa. While walking into the MCG on a sunny December 29, I realised that [Read more]
First Test, Day 5: Hauritz warms the cockles of an old non-spinning-offie bowler’s heart
December 30, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Patrick O’Keeffe History indicates that chasing 422 on a fifth day wicket is a difficult prospect. Nevertheless, with Pakistan well placed at stumps, against a young bowling attack which has struggled to take 20 wickets in recent times, there is the sense that this could be an enthralling day of cricket. Due to a [Read more]
First Test, Day 4: In search of the pivotal moment
December 30, 2009 by 12 Comments
By Andrew Gigacz Day four of the Boxing Day Test match. Potentially the best day. I’ve never really understood the whole Boxing Day thing. I mean I understand that it’s become a bit of a Melbourne sporting tradition. Huge crowd. Big expectations, no matter who the opposition. But in the context of a Test Match, [Read more]
First Test, Day 2: Views, Sport, Weather on Channel 9
December 27, 2009 by 1 Comment
by John Harms Cyclone Laurence has been gallivanting around the country this Christmas. He started up on the North-west Shelf, then had a puff at Port Headland, drifted towards Uluru where he turned the rock into a giant roof (it was just a pity there were no tanks to catch the run off), hooked up [Read more]
First Test, Day 1: The smoking lady, the PM and the photo finish
December 27, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Matt O’Connor It doesn’t take me long on Christmas Day to start thinking about my main present: cricket at the MCG the next day. Today we were entertained by Michael Burke in the MCC Dining Room. But before we get to that, let’s topple a couple of Boxing Day myths. First, [Read more]
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