Following some exceptional performances over the last two series, Brett Lee has established himself as the best fast bowler in the world.
Three things of great significance with regard to World Affairs happened this week.
In the first, the continued repercussions of the collapse of the American ‘sub-prime’ market caused Stock Exchanges from London to Beijing to hit the floor more times than the average chance heading in the general direction of Michael Clarke.
Welcome to the first of one of Cricket Web’s new regular blogs, Completing the Square, exploring the end of the game that the glare of the world’s media leaves well alone: the layers of the game hidden well beneath the latest scandal about betting, bias or bigotry. The game as played, for love not money, in the backwaters of Oxfordshire.
My name is Chris Taylor, I’m a right handed top order batsman, and play first-class Cricket for Yorkshire CCC. I have been a Professional Cricketer for seven years now, five with Yorkshire, then I signed for Derbyshire for two years, and now I have re-signed with Yorkshire again on a 3 year contract.
The retirements of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath after the final Ashes Test last season afforded the Australian team a duality of time for meditation on their immense achievements and on who would take their places in the team.