Our cricket season is longer than it used to be. As the hectic short form of the game has expanded, the traditional county fixtures now begin in early April, concluding at the end of September. The lucrative televised games are scheduled for warmer summer days and evenings. The less fashionable county games simply have… Continue reading
Posts tagged Australians
Will the Australians’ preposterous world record score ever be beaten?
Few records in cricket can be regarded as unbreakable – although six sixes in an over has to be one – but I find it hard to imagine, in a two innings per side game, any team surpassing the Australians’ monumental total on a sunny Saturday in May 75 years ago. We are used to… Continue reading →
When Bradman’s “Invincibles” came to Worcester – cricket as national balm in 1948
“A field cannot be set to such genius, with the ability, in the twinkling of an eye, to find the exact stroke to any chosen part he may select. Bradman in true faith can play any stroke at will.“ At the opening of the 1948 cricket season, as the nation still endured a brutal… Continue reading →