July 2005

Australia 190

Submitted by rickeyre on

Nice call, Ricky.

To be fair, 190 all out is an improvement on 87 for 5. But still not anywhere near good enough. Some great bowling by Harmison (5/43), and a little too much gay abandon from the Aussies. Justin Langer seems to play three types of innings - a first-over duck, a double ton, or a quickfire 40-odd-and-out. Today it was the latter. Nice symmetry from the middle order - Gilchrist 26, Katich 27, Warne 28.

All interest now falls to Glenn McGrath, whose next wicket will be his 500th.

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Great farces of our time: the bowl-out

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Surrey have enjoyed making heavy weather of their victories lately. Monday night's quarter-final in the 20-over comp came down to a Duckworth-Lewis tie (Duckworth-Lewis tie in a 20 over game? sheesh). But instead of doing the obvious - five overs each way of extra time, and if it's a draw come back Wednesday morning for the replay - they went for the next most obvious tie-breaker, the penalty shootout... er, the bowl-out.

The Compton-Miller: Men copy another female innovation

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The women were first with a Cricket World Cup, holding their first in 1973 while the men didn't get started till 1975. Now the men have announced a medal for best player of the England-Australia Test series, five years after the women did the same.

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My prediction for the Ashes

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I think England will probably win two of the five Tests, but I also think Australia will probably pick up two. I reckon it will be a two-all draw, Australia retaining the Ashes.

- Rick Eyre, BBC Radio Five Live, 21.6.05

I said it on radio last month and I'll stick with it now. The England-Australia Test series will finish in a 2-2 draw, which means Australia will retain the Ashes.

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SBS Ashes website

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The SBS televising Test cricket in Australia would be a bit like Channel 5 showing cricket in the UK (oh hrm, that's next year isn't it?)

Still, they got the guernsey (or should that be yellow jersey) after every other FTA network declined the offer. So, on Thursday, Australia's multicultural television network begins its first incursion into the world of cricket.

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William Westmoreland 1914-2005

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One of the names I remember hearing in the news often in my pre-teens was that of General William Westmoreland. He was the commander of US forces in Vietnam while Lyndon Johnson was President.

Westmoreland died on Monday at the age of 91. Clearly a major figure in one of the nastier of America's many incursions into foreign affairs.

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