home All News open_in_new Full Article

Strengthened Australia welcome England to Gabbatoir in pivotal Ashes week | Ali Martin

Ben Stokes is still bullish but the omens suggests pink-ball Test could be a nightmare on Vulture StreetMy first day at the Gabba was 23 years ago, half a lifetime having passed since I slept on my brother’s sofa across the river and followed the Ashes tour as a backpacker. The coin went up, Nasser Hussain decided to have a bowl, and Steve Waugh’s Australians cashed in on generosity.Having not returned until 2017‑18, and then covered the Covid tour four years later, the Sydney finale in 2003 remains the only time I have seen England win a Test on Australian soil. Even then I missed the last day: flat broke and forced to head back to Queensland to find work, I eventually found myself on a farm upstate, shovelling melons like a scrum-half for eight hot hours a day while dodging venomous snakes underfoot. Continue reading...


today 2 h. ago attach_file Politics

attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Economics
attach_file Events
attach_file Events
attach_file Economics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events


ID: 2188344363
Add Watch Country

arrow_drop_down