Ashes 2013/14

[Alexander's Horse]

This is my all time favorite compilation, some of it just gives me chills...

[Alexander's Horse]

Pieterson is very popular in Australia as a player because he always tries, sort of love/hate like Tony Grieg or Boycott. His 100th test will be Brisbane.

[MikeH]

He's a massive arrogant wanker, kind of an idealised Australian.

[MikeH]

He's also a sensationally skilled and entertaining player to watch, I'm sure that goes down well with cricket fans in Aus as much as in England.

[Alexander's Horse]

he's also not English, can't you find 11 players?

[MikeH]

His mum is English?

In fact, six of that Australian side for the inaugural Test match were born abroad. For our friends Down Under, that's more than half of them. And I hear the new legspinning hope doesn't look a great deal like Warnie.

Out of interest, here's an all-time Aussie team of players born offshore:

1. Kepler Wessels - Bloemfontein, South Africa
2. Charles Bannerman - Woolwich, UK
3. Usman Khawaja - Islamabad, Pakistan
4. Andrew Symonds - Birmingham, UK
5. Dav Whatmore - Colombo, Ceylon
6. Moises Henriques - Funchal, Madeira
7. Luke Ronchi - Dannevirke, NZ (ODI, T20)
8. Ken MacLeay - Bath-on-Avon, Wiltshire (ODI only)
9. Brendon Julian - Hamilton, NZ
10. Steve O'Keefe - Malaysia (T20 only)
11. Clarrie Grimmett - Dunedin, NZ

http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/645691.html

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

For reasons that are completely baffling, KP is now being hailed as England's best-ever player.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/25013362

That's rubbish. His average is about 10 less than Wally Hammond's.

[MikeH]

It's got to be Botham hasn't it?

[MikeH]

KP's number of innings, averages, number of 100s and total runs are so very similar to Alistair Cook's you'd have to suggest that if KP was #1, Cook was our second best ever player.

[Cort Haus]

Cook loses the toss. Useless ****.

[MikeH]

Let's hope they keep giving Broad stick for the full series.

[MikeH]

"The Wikipedia article for the Courier Mail has been tweaked a few times today. Broad has been added as the paper's editor and the agony aunt during the course of the day's play."

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If the Courier sticks to their policy of not mentioning Broad, I wonder how they explain where all those wickets went?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

That day's play was pretty much a continuation of the latter part of the summer Ashes. Broad on a roll, Anderson a bit off form, Warner looking dangerous, and the Aussie batsmen generally under-performing.

I'd stick money on Warner being Australia's top-scoring batsman for the series.

[Cort Haus]

If the Courier sticks to their policy of not mentioning Broad, I wonder how they explain where all those wickets went?