#the-ashes — Public Fediverse posts
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Extra Cover. Extended behind the scenes look at the fifth Ashes Test Match in Sydney. Excellent.
23-minute video: https://youtu.be/lXXWMbmFv2U
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Extra Cover. Extended behind the scenes look at the fifth Ashes Test Match in Sydney. Excellent.
23-minute video: https://youtu.be/lXXWMbmFv2U
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Extra Cover. An extended BTS look at the third Ashes Test Match in Adelaide.
19-minute video: https://youtu.be/uuUjowvT47s
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Extra Cover. An extended BTS look at the third Ashes Test Match in Adelaide.
19-minute video: https://youtu.be/uuUjowvT47s
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I found an old journal of mine from 20 years ago and was interested to note in January 2006 that:
1. we'd just had the hottest December on record in Sydney #Heatwave
2. the USA had revealed its underbelly with its response to the #NewOrleansHurricane
3. increasing #terrorism was hanging darkly over us (John Howard's new terrorism laws had just come in)
4. people were clutching at their mobile phones to feel loved and needed
5. and we'd just lost #TheAshes 2005-06.
When people say things started to go downhill with #Covid, perhaps they forget that the world is changing all the time, and sometimes for the better.
I felt low and depressed at the state of the world 20 years ago, and yet I was cocooned compared to now. Yet we cope and manage and go on and find new ways to bring change for good.
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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/10/an-ashes-retrospective/
A look back at #TheAshes series that recently concluded, and a photo gallery.
#cricket #TestCricket #AustraliavEngland #Bazball #photography #birds #heron #comrorants #gulls -
New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/10/an-ashes-retrospective/
A look back at #TheAshes series that recently concluded, and a photo gallery.
#cricket #TestCricket #AustraliavEngland #Bazball #photography #birds #heron #comrorants #gulls -
Bad news for English cricket, good news for Australia's tourism income.
#Travel #Cricket #TheAshes https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-10/barmy-army-australia-cricket-england-ashes-tourism/106214260
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Bad news for English cricket, good news for Australia's tourism income.
#Travel #Cricket #TheAshes https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-10/barmy-army-australia-cricket-england-ashes-tourism/106214260
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Listening to Test Match Special (The Ashes: When Bazball went bad and one very proud dad): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mt0cwb
With the Men's Ashes over, Henry Moeran is joined by Stephan Shemilt to discuss the latest revelations from a disappointing tour. Plus, we hear from Jacob Bethell's father.
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Listening to Test Match Special (The Ashes: When Bazball went bad and one very proud dad): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mt0cwb
With the Men's Ashes over, Henry Moeran is joined by Stephan Shemilt to discuss the latest revelations from a disappointing tour. Plus, we hear from Jacob Bethell's father.
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Boozeball 😂😂😂
Almost as good as Jim Maxwell’s Bazbollocks 😊
#Cricket #TheAshes https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c33874p4xg3o
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Boozeball 😂😂😂
Almost as good as Jim Maxwell’s Bazbollocks 😊
#Cricket #TheAshes https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c33874p4xg3o
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Apparently Mitchell Starc didn’t have any alcoholic drinks for six weeks before the start of The Ashes. He won the player of the series award and was instrumental in Australia's 4-1 victory over the seven weeks of the series.
Several of the English players had a well-documented alternative approach to drinking in the run-up and during the series.
The Starc anecdote is from this 20-minute video: https://youtu.be/jGQQYXKpRRU
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Apparently Mitchell Starc didn’t have any alcoholic drinks for six weeks before the start of The Ashes. He won the player of the series award and was instrumental in Australia's 4-1 victory over the seven weeks of the series.
Several of the English players had a well-documented alternative approach to drinking in the run-up and during the series.
The Starc anecdote is from this 20-minute video: https://youtu.be/jGQQYXKpRRU
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Full trophy presentation after the fifth and final Test Match of the 2025/26 Ashes series in Sydney.
14-minute video: https://youtu.be/2OoTzGZKPiM
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Full trophy presentation after the fifth and final Test Match of the 2025/26 Ashes series in Sydney.
14-minute video: https://youtu.be/2OoTzGZKPiM
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Australia had a few nervous moments but safely chased down its 160-run victory target before tea on the final day of the fifth Ashes test on Thursday for a five-wicket victory and a 4-1 series triumph. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/01/08/more-sports/australia-ashes-triumph/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #theashes #england #australia #usmankhawaja #stevesmith #benstokes
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Australia had a few nervous moments but safely chased down its 160-run victory target before tea on the final day of the fifth Ashes test on Thursday for a five-wicket victory and a 4-1 series triumph. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/01/08/more-sports/australia-ashes-triumph/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #theashes #england #australia #usmankhawaja #stevesmith #benstokes
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So where do we go from here? Well…
1. We admit where we got it wrong, and stop trying to defend the indefensible.
2. Ben Stokes is a magnificent cricketer and one of England’s best all-rounders, but like Flintoff and Botham before him, is he really a Test captain? (For the record, I’m not sure who should take over that role)
3. It’s a cliché, but catches win matches! 17 put down in the series when the Aussies held on to everything until Sydney, by then it didn’t make a bit of difference
4. The DRS is there to overturn the decision when the umpire makes a howler: not when you think you deserve a wicket! -
As an English cricket fan, I always want the England cricket team to win and I will shout and cheer for that to happen. That said, I am glad that this Ashes series finished up at 4-1 to the Aussies for the following reasons.
1. We really didn’t need another 5-0 whitewash! (I respect Glenn McGrath as one of the greatest attrition bowlers of line and length, but that doesn’t mean that I always want him to be right!)
2. Bazball is absolutely the way forward in limited overs cricket, but needs to be put to bed in the first class version of the game.
3. If England had managed to win - or even salvage a draw - at this final test, it would have papered over the cracks of just how out of sorts we were against superior opposition, that was never at its full strength, and that would have negated my argument in point two! (Look how close we came to winning!) -
This is Mitch #Starc's 2nd man-of-the-series. He got the 2023 Ashes one as well. Just a fantastic bowler. Oneof the greats. In Perth, he averaged 145kph in 40 degree heat. A great servant of test cricket.
Not exactly the second string bowler as some like to call him.
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May be if the Barmy Army weren't so relentlessly (noisily) supportive of their team, the English might play better. Perhaps a little pointed silence might incentivize England more than non-stop clapping.
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Not wunderkind Green involved in another possible run-out! 🙄
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Win it for us one last time Uzzy #Ashes #TheAshes #AUSvENG #UsmanKhawaja #UzzyUzzyUzzyOiOiOi
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Win it for us one last time Uzzy #Ashes #TheAshes #AUSvENG #UsmanKhawaja #UzzyUzzyUzzyOiOiOi
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Another wicket for Starc. 32 in total. England all out.
Australia need 160 to win.
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Another wicket for Starc. 32 in total. England all out.
Australia need 160 to win.
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Bethell out for 154.
Starc gets him to take his 31st wicket of the series.
England lead Australia by 145 runs with 1 wicket remaining.
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Bethell out for 154.
Starc gets him to take his 31st wicket of the series.
England lead Australia by 145 runs with 1 wicket remaining.
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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/07/england-just-about-hanging-on/
A look back at day four at the SCG, a link and a photo gallery.
#cricket #TestCricket #TheAshes #AustraliavEngland #JacobBethell #photography #MulticellularLife #EukaryoticCell #Plants #Fungi #Animals #birds #Egret #Cormorants #lapwing #starlings -
New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/07/england-just-about-hanging-on/
A look back at day four at the SCG, a link and a photo gallery.
#cricket #TestCricket #TheAshes #AustraliavEngland #JacobBethell #photography #MulticellularLife #EukaryoticCell #Plants #Fungi #Animals #birds #Egret #Cormorants #lapwing #starlings -
Good to see that England now have a number 3. If we find two decent openers and a new players in 4-11 we'll be a half decent side #TheAshes
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Good to see that England now have a number 3. If we find two decent openers and a new players in 4-11 we'll be a half decent side #TheAshes
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I hope Jacob Bethell gets left alone to grow as a cricketer after his good batting performance in the current Test.
And doesn’t get a load off expectation pressure as the “future of England cricket”.
Technique change, or regime change, is needed in England's management so that traditional cricket techniques can once again flourish.
Fingers crossed it happens.
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I hope Jacob Bethell gets left alone to grow as a cricketer after his good batting performance in the current Test.
And doesn’t get a load off expectation pressure as the “future of England cricket”.
Technique change, or regime change, is needed in England's management so that traditional cricket techniques can once again flourish.
Fingers crossed it happens.
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England are hanging on by the proverbial finger nail due to Jacob Bethell who has played a magnificent innings, ending the day on 142 not out.
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England are hanging on by the proverbial finger nail due to Jacob Bethell who has played a magnificent innings, ending the day on 142 not out.
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Stumps on day four in Sydney. England are 302-8 in their second innings, 119 ahead overall. There have been times when Australia have flunked small final innings chases - Headingley and Edgbaston in 1981 being two such cases, the SCG in 1894 another, and there was one in 1998-9 when Dean Headley did the damage, as well as one against South Africa in the same era when Fanie de Villiers was the destroyer. Australia definitely favourites though.
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Stumps on day four in Sydney. England are 302-8 in their second innings, 119 ahead overall. There have been times when Australia have flunked small final innings chases - Headingley and Edgbaston in 1981 being two such cases, the SCG in 1894 another, and there was one in 1998-9 when Dean Headley did the damage, as well as one against South Africa in the same era when Fanie de Villiers was the destroyer. Australia definitely favourites though.
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England still in a massive hole, but Australia will not be taking the extra half hour in a bid to finish it today. England, led by Bethell's maiden first class ton, have done enough to ensure that much at least.
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Damn. That’s a grim end to the series for Ben Stokes if he’s done.
He went off with a groin strain a few overs into day four.
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Damn. That’s a grim end to the series for Ben Stokes if he’s done.
He went off with a groin strain a few overs into day four.
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The fourth day of the fifth Test is about to start in Sydney.
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The fourth day of the fifth Test is about to start in Sydney.
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Holidays, Colds, and Cricket
My daughter has been off nursery school since late December, and she finally goes back tomorrow.
In that time we’ve all had terrible colds (she had the flu), been into central Nagoya a few times, as well as Osu Kannon, Legoland Japan, and our local awesome park. She’s also learnt how to play — and cheat at — Uno and Babanuki (Old Maid).
When I’ve had a few spare moments to myself, I’ve mostly been watching England get humiliated by Australia in The Ashes. I didn’t realise how much I’d missed it. There’s something about those cricket grounds — especially the Adelaide Oval — that pulls me straight back to the 1990s, when Australia felt impossibly distant, watching Ben Stokes and Joe Root’s predecessors play on those far-off shores gave me that first real ache of wanderlust. Josh Tongue, the fast bowler, is from the same small town as me, which only sharpens the ache for years gone by. Now Australia’s just a few hours away and we make the trip most years, but seeing those grounds still does something to me.
I’ve also been trying to finish Before the Dawn by Shimazaki Tōson — been reading it for months now. I didn’t realise it was the literary equivalent of The Lord of the Rings ×100, but I refuse to give up.
It’s been wonderful having her with us every day. She’s our only child, and we try to keep her constantly entertained. I go slightly insane whenever I catch her scrolling through YouTube watching dead-end videos instead of doing something — anything — more playful or creative.
But when she goes back tomorrow and I finally have time to read again, I’ll miss her. I’ll miss her poking at me constantly for attention, to play games, go to the park, or to make her something for lunch.
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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/06/australia-take-control-in-sydney/
A look back at days two and three at the #SCG and a photo gallery from #snowy #Norfolk
#cricket #TestCricket #TheAshes #AustraliavEngland #photography #snow #birds #starlings #lapwing -
New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2026/01/06/australia-take-control-in-sydney/
A look back at days two and three at the #SCG and a photo gallery from #snowy #Norfolk
#cricket #TestCricket #TheAshes #AustraliavEngland #photography #snow #birds #starlings #lapwing -
Listening to Test Match Special (The Ashes: Smith grinds down England as the SCG turns pink): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0msb0wg
We hear from record breaking Steve Smith who became the second highest scorer in Ashes history and England’s Jacob Bethell who took his first Ashes wicket. Jonathan Agnew and Phil Tufnell join Simon Mann to review a tricky day for England and Eleanor Oldroyd speaks to Glenn McGrath and Emma Agnew about Jane McGrath day.
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Listening to Test Match Special (The Ashes: Smith grinds down England as the SCG turns pink): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0msb0wg
We hear from record breaking Steve Smith who became the second highest scorer in Ashes history and England’s Jacob Bethell who took his first Ashes wicket. Jonathan Agnew and Phil Tufnell join Simon Mann to review a tricky day for England and Eleanor Oldroyd speaks to Glenn McGrath and Emma Agnew about Jane McGrath day.
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Catches win matches! England have shelled too many this series whilst the Aussies seem to have grasped everything
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Too bad, other chemo patients. You're off to the Pink Test with Mum and I, whether you like it or not 😁
#Ashes #TheAshes #PinkTest #JaneMcGrathDay #McGrathFoundation #cricket #cancer #chemotherapy
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Jim Maxwell is fab on TMS commentary. He and Alex Hartley banter well together 😊
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There has to be better seam and swing bowlers in the English counties than most of the current English bowlers.
They shouldn’t have put Jimmy Andersen out to pasture.
