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Date: July 21, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Australia showed that the Trent Bridge Test was not an aberration. It got very close to victory at Nottingham but did soon the back of a very ordinary performance from the specialist batsmen. They were equally woeful in their first innings at Lord’s. The second day started poorly for the tourists with the England tail […]

Date: July 20, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Australia had a day of extremes on the opening day of the second Test at Lord’s but finds itself in the ascendancy with the hosts 7-289. Play was delayed for 15 minutes as the teams lined up in the front of the iconic members’ grandstand to be introduced to the Queen. Her Majesty left the […]

Date: July 19, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Lord’s – the location for the second Ashes Test – is Australia’s most successful English venue with just one defeat sitting alongside 14 victories since 1934. That one loss came on the last Ashes tour in 2009 when Ricky Ponting’s tourists were handed a 115-run defeat. Over the next five days the Ashes are pretty […]

Date: July 18, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Just over three weeks ago Mickey Arthur sat before the media in England to speak of his sacking as Australian cricket coach. He was his usual outwardly affable and polite self. Whilst he admitted to being “shocked and shattered”, he spoke of his respect for the playing group. Now, on the eve of the crucial […]

Date: July 16, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

The first Test at Trent Bridge was yet another example of why Test cricket will always be the most riveting form of the game. In the end, England proved too good and its victory has them in prime position to retain the Ashes. One more win by the hosts should wrap it up as Australia […]

Date: July 12, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

It was a selection that not many saw coming – well not for the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge at least. At 19 years of age and with a mere ten first-class matches behind him, left-arm finger spinner Ashton Agar was handed his baggy green by Glenn McGrath an hour before the start of […]

Date: July 9, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Australia will start as a significant underdog when the Ashes series gets underway at Trent Bridge on Wednesday. However, like Allan Border’s surprise tourists in 1989, Australia is not without a total hope. To regain the Ashes the team must play smart, disciplined cricket and there are several key areas and individuals that will dictate […]

Date: July 5, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Well here goes. This is my Australian XI for the opening encounter of the Ashes series at Nottingham next Wednesday. May I say in my preamble that I am making these prognostications with two days remaining in Australia’s final first-class warm-up match. We know that the openers are cast in stone because coach Darren Lehmann […]

Date: June 28, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

It is ridiculous to think that Jobe Watson will run out onto Patersons Stadium in Perth tonight at the captain of the Essendon Football Club. The AFL has abrogated its responsibility in allowing the Brownlow medallist to continue playing. On Fox Footy’s On The Couch program on Monday night Watson admitted to one of the […]

Date: June 26, 2013 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

For the first time in the Essendon doping saga a player has come forward and confirmed that he was administered the banned drug AOD-9604. And it is not just any player. Reigning Brownlow medallist, club captain and son of a Bombers’ legend, Jobe Watson made the stunning admission on Fox Footy’s On The Couch last […]