OK I know it’s all over and now we’re onto the Rugby World Cup (well, I am) but I just read this excellent summary by Australian writer Geoff Lemon (he’s very fair in case you Poms were wondering) and thought that the half dozen of us here who participated in the GAAD (Great Afterword Ashes Discussion) might be interested.
Cooling off after The Ashes
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Yep that is how i remember it
A shit pheasant against good shooters. Lol.
Magnificent stuff!
Interesting and fair summary – see you in 2021!
Thank you.
Yup, that’s an enjoyable article and quite fair from an English angle.
Geoff Lemon does appear to have, how can I put this politely, a bit of a ‘thing’ for Jofra Archer. “He was lithe of limb and languid of action…He glided around the field, standing as nonchalantly at mid-off as he might by a sunny stream…He smiled fleetingly but surely, and spoke with a soft confidence.”
Oh, Mr Darcy! My feelings will not be repressed!
For anyone with cricket withdrawal symptoms, I watched “the edge” yesterday which is showing on Amazon prime in the uk. Quite riveting stuff. I was expecting a gentle review of English cricket over the last ten years, but it was quite dark at times. Highly recommended.
That looks interesting, I’ll give it a try! On the subject of cricket documentaries I saw Death of a Gentleman on Netflix (I think) recently. Don’t know how representative it is of what really happened, but it gives an interesting look into a stitch-up between the ICC, Australia, England and India.
Death of a Gentleman does tell it how it was. I particularly enjoyed their brilliant takedown of the loathsome former ECB Chairman Giles Clarke, condemning himself from his own mouth. He had obviously had never heard of the old adage ‘when you’re in a hole, stop digging’.
He’s written a very balanced account of the ball-tampering scandal (from what I’ve read so far) in Steve Smith’s Men. Never condoning it but placing it in context. Well worth a read.