Richard Crook
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It's all in the toss...
The blogging is hotting up, and so is the battle in the press I see.The Aussies are talking a good game, but they must be concerned that Freddie is back and Bopara is out - that massively improves us!And if they are seriously thinking of dropping Clark and bring Hauritz ...
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Last few days to win Ashes tickets
Last few days to win those Ashes tickets so if you have been a regular reader but not contributor to this blog then now is your chance! Selection has been decided, and as we predicted the selectors were not brave enough to drop both Bell and Bopora - shame. How ...
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The greatest show on earth...
OUR FREE TICKETS TO THE FINAL ASHES TEST ARE STILL UP FOR GRABS THANKS TO DRIVERS JONAS - tickets will go to best comment on the blog - so give us your thoughts/feelings and best memories to be in with a chance of being at the OvalEngland were comprehensively outplayed ...
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FREE ASHES TICKETS - thanks to Drivers Jonas
Got a feeling this series is going to the wire, so those 2 tickets for day 5 at the Brit Oval could be the deciding days play.
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Mystic Rich on his Ashes predictions
Thanks for all the comments on the accurate predictions!I wish I had put some money on winning by lunch and a Freddie 5 wicket haul!Great game, Strauss was proved right in not enforcing the follow on - maybe the press will leave him alone for a while now.Pleased Freddie was ...
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Happy Monday? Richard Crook is predicting one...just
Another day, another week, however this Monday morning has a different feel to it doesn't it?Whatever happens history will be made at Lords today, will England get there first Lords ashes win for over 70 years, or will the Aussies chase down the mammoth 525 to win? Well the history ...
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Same old England!
Teams as predicted for Lords, we are getting quite good at this!Australia were put to the sword for 3 hours at Lords yesterday as England finally found some batting form.Cook and Strauss putting on 196, before Cook fell for 95.He must have one of the worst conversion rates from 50 ...
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Arise Sir Monty...
Wow, what a great test match! We thought the 2005 series would take some beating, but this has to be as good as any of those games.Very similar to the 2005 Old Trafford Test where the Aussies hung on for a draw, this time the boot was on the other ...
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Day Two and things are looking...okay
Ok so 336-7 over night, advantage England I say.Great knocks from KP and Colly and especially Prior, but can't help but feel we could and should have done better.Lots of criticism at the ground and in the bars of Cardiff last night over kPs dismissal, but I say that's the ...
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Ashes fever gets underway with Drivers Jonas' Richard Crook
The Ashes is what Test cricket is all about - so says Sir Ian Botham - and who am I to disagree!The idea of an ashes cricket blog was one of those late night Mipim conversations held with the PW journalists, yet unlike many of those conversations in the ...
