Innholdsfortegnelse for 2021/2022 Season Guide i ABC Cricket Magazine

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It’s not often an Ashes series is at risk of cancellation until a few weeks before its start date, but such was the case with the men’s series through 2021. The middle months of the year were full of angst from England about whether touring Australia would be too onerous under pandemic conditions. The prospect of a late abandonment would have left the home summer eerily empty, and the spectre of frightening financial losses certainly haunted Cricket Australia. The tour was formally agreed upon in October. Even so, Australia enters the series as a ghost team. Cricket Australia abandoned its own trip to South Africa earlier in 2021, scheduling nothing in its stead, which means December 8 will mark the country’s first day of Test cricket since the previous home…

The Australian women’s cricket team is on a mission to win the Ashes and the World Cup in a packed summer of cricket. In a period of just over two months, the multi-format series against England is followed up with a trip across the Tasman to try to add the 50-over version to the 20-over title the Aussie women won last year. Australia is the current holder of the Ashes after a comprehensive victory on English soil two years ago. England won just one match, the final WT20I, as Australia dominated in all three formats. This year’s series sees a slight change to the order, with the Test match being played first, before three WT20Is, then three WODIs to finish. Vice-captain Rachael Haynes is of the opinion the change of…

When former Australian fast bowler Wayne Clark became coach of Yorkshire County Cricket Club at the turn of the century, one of his first moves was to introduce an attacking mantra. Fear of failure had become ingrained, and Clark turned to his Australian import, dashing batsman Darren Lehmann, to help shift the thinking. Lehmann, in turn, encouraged team-mate Michael Vaughan to be more attacking with bat in hand, and the latter embraced this mindset. Yorkshire won its first County championship in 33 years. The street-smart Vaughan carried this philosophy on through a fine Test career as a batsman and Ashes-winning captain until he was curtailed by a knee problem. Joe Root, like Vaughan, hails from the Yorkshire club, and he, too, spoke of the same tyke mantra when appointed England…

Since the emergence of Mark Taylor in 1989, Australia has churned out top-order Test batsmen as though they were on a production line. It began with the Allan Border period, where his top order regularly consisted of the likes of the masterful Dean Jones, the rock-solid David Boon, the ever-reliable Geoff Marsh and, of course, “Tubby” himself. That Taylor era saw the likes of young sensation Michael Slater and the silky Mark Waugh join the Test side and lock their spots down for many years. The Steve Waugh reign saw the old guard retire and a new group of talented batsmen make names for themselves, most notably Ricky Ponting, Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden, Greg Blewett, Darren Lehmann and Damien Martyn. Ricky Ponting’s tenure introduced Simon Katich, Michael Clarke and Mike…

SPUN OUT! Between them, spin pioneers Bernard Bosanquet and Jack Iverson only played 13 Tests, but their contributions – the wrong ’un and bent-finger grip respectively – left an indelible mark. “Bosey”, inventor of the “googly”, apparently brought the game into disrepute by deceiving batsmen who expected a leg-break and got, in effect, an off-break for their trouble! It was just not cricket, old boy! He took 25 wickets in seven Tests. Iverson took 21 wickets, using his odd grip and wonderfully unpredictable spin, in 1950-51 at an average of 15. DEATH OF A POET There are few sadder examples of talent cut down in its prime than Archie Jackson’s. Jackson, a batting prodigy from the start, played his entire career through exhaustion and illness. Just as Keats might very…

As a cricket novitiate, I grew up consumed by the symbolism of the Ashes. The game we love has certainly changed from the days of MCC-selected teams touring Australia and fighting for an urn that lived at Lord’s. Administrators never asked the players about how they would manage without wives and families being left at home, and they were paid a pittance compared to the rewards available now. A combination of player power and more sympathetic employers reflects a more caring and altruistic attitude. Cricket is growing up, becoming more empathetic and realising the players are not just numbers on the scoreboard. The COVID pandemic has been a massive disrupter, a mental and physical burden for everyone. Some of us have experienced the despair and loneliness of enforced quarantine; more…

When Test cricket began in 1877, overs were a mere four balls in length. In 1889, this number was bumped up to five. In 1900, it went to six. Already, the trend was clear – every dozen or so years, we’d add an extra delivery to each over. And yet, as observant cricket fans such as yourself have probably noticed, here in the summer of 2021-22, we don’t have 17-ball overs. So what went wrong? The first problem arose in 1911 or 1912, when the scheduled jump to seven-ball overs was skipped. The reasons remain unclear – perhaps a legislative oversight, perhaps something to do with the Titanic sinking. Who can say? Australia had things back on track in 1922-23, moving to eight-ball overs as the trendline decreed. The English,…

Lloyd Pope is still only 21. He is still only a handful of years removed from having made a dramatic beginning to his first-class career. Still only at a very pubescent age, especially for a legspinner. But here he was getting smashed around by his state captain Travis Head in a trial game at the Gladys Elphick Park Oval in Adelaide. It is a week out from the South Australian Redbacks’ opening Sheffield Shield encounter against the Western Australian tourists. With a worrying first-class bowling average of 72.50 and a rather unimpressive 2020-21 season, Pope isn’t certain of a place in the Redbacks’ squad. And as you watched Head put away the umpteenth full toss to the straight boundary, it was difficult not to be slightly concerned about the young…

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