Nick wrote in to remind me of this post I penned four years ago, almost to the day, in November 2004:
Surrey CCC are offering tickets for The Ashes 2005 for £10. Well, not the whole Ashes, obviously…just the 5th day, September 12th. Sounds a good deal - and it’s great to read of England’s positive [...]
It doesn’t begin for another eight months, but already there are some Ashes tickets being sold on eBay for serious lolly. Yes, I realised I just used the word lolly, but there you go. If you’ve got the cash, go buy some.
Ricky Ponting has been chosen to appear on the front cover of the 2009 Playfair Cricket Annual, I see. This is mostly good news for England. Time and again, Bill Frindall’s cover choices tend to ruin the player’s short-term career, so bring on the Ashes.
PS: that sound you can hear is a clump of straw, [...]
I offered my top ten Ashes heroes for Patrick Kidd’s excellent series, which you can find below. It’s by far from definitive: basically my favourites, the ones I’ve most enjoyed in action or having read about. Nevertheless: cuss me in the comments if you wish.
Our guest blogger this week, to go with the continuing series [...]
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