The Champions League T20 didn’t exactly capture the imagination of the general public, which is to be expected when Dave Stewart’s song-commissioning hotline continues to gather dust.
Struggling for inspiration with no cricket to watch on the telly? Well we can’t really help there, but we can at least hopefully stoke your enthusiasm about what the next few months hold in store.
The Nintendo DS is home of some of our favourite games in the whole world: Animal Crossing, those weird ‘hands on’ Japanese dating games and Shane Watson’s Power Play Cricket.
Podcast number 9 sees us sifting over the ashes of our interest in the Champions League, the ashes of the careers of the Marsh brothers, and….well….the Ashes itself. Plus the usual slating of the Kiwis.
England were 2-1 up with one to play. Bet you can’t guess what happened next?
The Chinese, Vietnamese, the Korean and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for “death” in their languages. The fourth game of the 2005 series wasn’t far off backing that up.
With the series level at 1-1, both sides headed to Manchester with ASHES FEVER in full swing. Either that or being so far North was bringing everyone out in a rash.
Up the M40 to Edgbaston went the travelling Ashes caravan.
A whole week of reminiscing about the greatest series in the history of the game starts, like all the great stories, with England getting a right shellacking.
The Unlikely Lads make their first stop off in the Caribbean to welcome aboard one of our absolute favourites