83 Days Until the Ashes…

In number 85 of our Ashes 100-1 countdown, Blaise Murphet looked back to 1985 when an Australian team weakened by the desertion of several key players to a rebel tour of South Africa was slain by David Gower’s talented England side.

Back in 1982-83, the shoe was on the other foot, as several England players were serving three year bans for participating in the first of a series of rebel tours to South Africa in the 1980′s.

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86 Days Until The Ashes…

The start of our Ashes 100-1 feature coincided with Ricky Ponting’s “absolutely possible” response to a question asking if Australia could repeat their 5-0 whitewash of four years ago. Although Ponting, didn’t quite veer into full Glenn McGrath territory and make an outright 5-0 prediction, it does seem to have heralded the start of what Andrew Strauss has shrewdly termed the “silly season” of Ashes propaganda. And that is our subject today.

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87 Days Until The Ashes Begin…

87 is known as the “Devil’s Number” in Australian cricket as it is thirteen shy of a hundred, so it seems apt that with 87 days to go until the Ashes begins in Brisbane on 25th November, we look today at Australian batsmen who have fallen on this dreaded number in our Ashes 100-1 countdown.

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This week we look at England’s batting woes, which were finally exposed in the loss to Pakistan at the Oval last week. We also feature a former England opening batsman who continues to show his class as well as looking at Chris Tremlett’s claim for a recall. Also covered this week are Salman Butt’s impressive captaincy, the prospect of a World Test Championship and our view on the farcical announcement of the ICC Cricketer of the Year long-list.

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