Articles tagged ‘Cricket’
Busy sporting weekend in London
By Chris | August 9th, 2007 |
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The new football season starts this weekend and the sports press can concentrate on something other than whether Beckham’s problem with his big toe/ankle/new haircut will stop him walking down another red carpet. Football fans will be filled with hope for a good season, at least until Monday, but the return of the Premiership and [...]
Daily Dose 07.27
By Chris | July 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Climate change activists to stage a week of protests at Heathrow against the airport’s expansion.(BBCNews)
* City of London policeman charged with murder in a bar.(TheIndependent)
* Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces plans for a UK border police. Definitely a case of after the horse has bolted.(EveningStandard)
International cricket in London this summer
By Chris | May 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The England cricket team have a chance to get back to winning ways this week after a disastrous winter tour of Australia and an equally poor showing at the Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean in March. On Thursday, 17 May, England start their summer programme of international games with the first of four five [...]
London’s Sports Calendar
By Chris | January 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
If you’re a sports fan and are coming to London this year, what can you expect to see apart from the regular season football, rugby and county cricket games. Here’s a run down of some of the major games and tournaments in London this year.
3 February Rugby Union England v Scotland at Twickenham
10 February Rugby [...]
Stadium tours in London
By Chris | January 3rd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
There’s a lot of sport that goes on in London throughout the year and many of the major venues offer stadium tours. I should probably include the Circus Tavern in Purfleet after Monday’s epic world championship final between Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld, one of the greatest matches in darts history, but [...]
England on the brink Down Under
By Chris | December 15th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Australia look like they could regain The Ashes by Sunday, they’re 2-0 in the five Test series and are on well on top in this current Third Test in Perth. England just haven’t shown up in this Ashes series and the thousands of England fans who are heading to Sydney for the Boxing Day Test [...]
Cricket’s not that difficult
By Chris | November 22nd, 2006 | Add a Comment »
The Ashes are just about to get underway and Freddy Flintoff’s secret weapon for victory was getting a few batting tips off the man of the moment, Borat Sagdiyev.
Australia v England - The Ashes 2006
By Chris | November 21st, 2006 | Add a Comment »
The cricket Ashes start tomorrow night UK time(Thursday morning Australian time) at the Gabba in Brisbane with the First Test between England and Australia. England went mad when the cricket team won the Ashes for the first time in 18 years in the summer of 2005, now its Australia’s turn to get hyped up for [...]
Professional Sports in London - Cricket
By Chris | October 11th, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Cricket is England’s summertime team sport and has seen a massive resurgence in interest over the last few years especially after the England team were succesful against Australia in a 2005 series called The Ashes.
Who wants to be Magnum
By BootsnAll | November 4th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
England’s cricketers who are touring Pakistan at the moment, are all growing moustache’s to keep up team morale.
They better be careful or they could end up looking like those two Aussie Village People rejects Merv Hughes and David Boon.
I like this little history of the Australian cricket team’s drinking record travelling to and from overseas [...]
