Shane Watson pulled up stiff after training in the lead-up to Australia’s first warm-up match of the tour. In other news, roses were declared to be red, violets blue and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was overheard muttering something about shaking sauce bottles.
Source: Foxsports muttering something about shaking sauce bottles.
Welcome to the first installment of Ashes HQ, a blog to capture the highs, lows, events and non-events which comprise an Ashes series. The series of 2005 was a fillip for Test cricket and the 2009 summer in England has fans and punters alike lining up for more of the same.
The blog is a collaborative, multi-national effort composed of esteemed members of the Cricket Web family; Zac Gelman and Cameron Burge (Australia), Martyn Corrin and Richard Dickinson (England), Will Quinn (Ireland) and yours truly, Corey Taylor also from Australia.
Over the course of the summer, you’ll be seeing the series through the eyes of the above contributors and we’ll be doing our best to provide balanced commentary but also some of the more off-the-wall happenings which occur in an Ashes summer. Whatever happens, hopefully Australia England cricket is the winner.
We are proud to open up our Fantasy Cricket competition for the Ashes 2009. In association with Codemasters, the winners will recieve a copy of their latest cricket game which is appropriately named Ashes Cricket 2009.
With Pakistan emerging victorious, here is Cricket Web’s official review of the 2009 World Twenty20, in England
Rockingham Software have released the first demo for Cricket Coach 2009 which features a Twenty20 game between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The idea being that you can have fun simulating the 2009 World Twenty20 final.
Various details of the upcoming release of International Cricket Captain 2009 have been made publicly available which includes information on new features in this release, three screenshots and the box shot.
6 new screenshots for Cricket Coach 2009 have been released showing various aspects of the game.
8 new screenshots for Ashes Cricket 2009 have been released showing various shots of Ricky Ponting and Kevin Pietersen.
Kevin Pietersen, the explosive England batsman, will be the face of Ashes Cricket 2009, the official video game of this summer’s tournament, Codemasters announced today. Pietersen will be the game’s cover star and joins Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne and Sir Ian Botham in playing a prominent role in the game.