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Peter Siddle: Australian Vegan
The news that the Australian medium-fast bowler Peter Siddle is a vegan was music to the ears of this particular blog. Evander is the editor of the famous feminist bible of veganism, The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams, a … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket
Tagged Animals Australia, Carol Adams, Edgar's Mission, Lantern Books, Penguin Foundation, Peter Siddle, The Ashes, veganism
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A Singed Phoenix
To England fans of many years (such as Martin), the team’s 3–2 victory over the Australians in the 2015 Ashes bears all the hallmarks of a very English success story—partial, inconsistent, worryingly incomplete: the eggiest of curate’s eggs. All the narratives proclaiming a resurgence … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Test Cricket, West Indies
Tagged Alastair Cook, Brendon McCullum, Ian Bell, Johnny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Kevin Pietersen, The Ashes, World Cup
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A Rise from the Ashes
One of the reasons why sport engrosses large panoply of the society is that it mirrors life. People can pick an image of themselves, a person who they think represents them and what they stand for in life and then … Continue reading
The Inside Scoop
Now that I (Martin) have turned fifty, my doctor has advised me to get a colonoscopy, and dutifully I have scheduled one for later in August. At a pre-operation, getting-to-know-you meeting, my surgeon, a dapper gentleman by the name of … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, Pakistan, Test Cricket
Tagged Kevin Pietersen, Shahid Afridi, The Ashes
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England Subside Again . . . and Again
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when England win a Test match against opposition against whom they are “meant” to have lost, there will be much talk of “new beginnings” and “resurgence.” What is less universally acknowledged is that, a few … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, New Zealand, Test Cricket, West Indies
Tagged Literature, The Ashes
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The Broad Identity
Among the plaudits being offered following the England cricket team’s trouncing of Australia in the first Test match of the Ashes series, one man, in the humble opinion of this blog, is not getting his due. We agree that it is … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England
Tagged Alastair Cook, Ben Stokes, Gary Ballance, Ian Bell, Jimmy Anderson, Joe Root, Mark Wood, Michael Clarke, Mooen Ali, Stuart Broad, The Ashes
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Bully for Brendon
I (Martin) write this blog a day after England have beaten Australia in the first game of the 2015 Ashes competition. A few months ago, the sentence “England have beaten Australia in the first game of the 2015 Ashes competition,” although (almost) … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, New Zealand
Tagged Ben Stokes, Brendon McCullum, Joe Root, Jos Buttler, Kevin Pietersen, The Ashes, Theodore Roosevelt
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Heee’s Baaack!
Kevin Pietersen—the perennial thorn in the flesh in English cricket, the man whom everyone thought we’d moved on from, the busted flush, the bloke from a bygone era, the no-longer-under-consideration-under-any-circumstances chap—refuses, like Freddy Krueger, to go away. He’s just scored … Continue reading
Move Along, Nothing to See Here. . . .
In 1882, following the England cricket team’s ignominious defeat to a group of plucky upstarts from Australia, an English newspaper, The Sporting Times, published an “obituary” in which it lamented the death of English cricket, and reported that its body … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, Cricket, England, One-Day Cricket, Test Cricket
Tagged Alastair Cook, Kevin Pietersen, The Ashes, World Cup
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The Spectacle of an India v. Pakistan World Cup Game
It was projected that over 1.1 billion people would watch the World Cup game between India and Pakistan, which took place on February 15th. (By contrast, the most recent Super Bowl was watched by somewhere in the vicinity of 100 million people.) Indian fans will always … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, India, Pakistan, Right Off the Bat Website
Tagged Sachin Tendulkar, The Ashes, World Cup
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