Tag Archives: The Ashes
Stuart Broad LIVE on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross – Highlights
If our young Stuart Broad, angelic faced Premier All-Rounder™, is now a national treasure, with MBE’s and Gillette (the best a man can get?) adverts just around the corner apparently, he should, no must!, master the skill of the chat … Continue reading
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Duncan Fletcher’s Guardian B-Sides: “Where now for England?”
England should look to Mahmood, Rashid, Brsenan to conquer all Posted by Duncan Fletcher, Wednesday 19th August England did really well. Well done. Winning the Ashes is never easy. People keep asking me if this team is as good as … Continue reading
The Leading Edge picks the next England XI
Yes, we won the Ashes, something we all kinda thought would happen after Lord’s, then thought would never happen after Headingley then definitely thought should happen after Stuart Broad. But thanks to the ECB’s decision to exclude the 7 million … Continue reading
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Shane Warne’s Legspinning masterclass – Highlights
Some of the most exciting, exhilirating televised sport involving Englishmen and Ozzies is on today. No, no, no, not ‘the Ashes, but ‘Shane Warne’s bowling masterclass’, LIVE during the lunch break. Oh boy! Shane Warne, the Sheikh of Tweak, the, … Continue reading
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A little reminder from The Leading Edge
Young Stuart Broad’s heroics yesterday were, indeed, fantastic. The ‘problem’ of Broad now solved? Yet this blog must take you back a week or so, when the ‘problem’ was ‘solved’ by your humble writers, an entire 3 days before his … Continue reading
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Ian Ronald Bell MBE’s Ashes Tour Diary – Fifth Test, First Day
Number 3: The Mistress I so Lament; So close, yet so far Posted by Ian Bell, Thursday 20th August “If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? – With silence and tears” – Lord Byron … Continue reading
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Swann Song: Graeme Logs in
My 5th Test preview!! Posted by Graeme Swann, Wednesday 19th August Swannie here, England’s number one spinner and generally good bloke. I’m often compared to this hilarious chaps in the WKD adverts. Have I got a WKD side? I should … Continue reading
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‘Shermanator’, the jokes on them
It is impossible to not think of Ian Bell now without remembering the nickname that Shane Warne gave him in 2005, “The Shermanator”. This obscure reference to the American Pie movie had the likes of Brearly, Selvey and Atherton baffled. … Continue reading
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How do you solve a problem like Broad?
Yes, I know another article about Broad is probably the last thing you want right now. How many times have we heard messrs Holding, Botham and Atherton pathetically ask, “what type of bowler does he want to be?” and the … Continue reading
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