An American woman, named by the press down under as Ashley Kerekes, from Massachusetts, complained about people suddenly sending messages to her Twitter account about cricket. Kerekes says she knows nothing about cricket but for some reason received scores of tweets about the Ashes contest between Australia and England, finally tweeting that she was ‘not a freaking cricket match’. Her …
On a cloudy day
Australia turned up at the Oval this morning, so there go the Ashes.
It’s just not cricket
Is nothing sacred? New academic research is suggesting that the game of cricket, always thought to have originated in England, actually started in Belgium! From here it was introduced into England. The research has been carried out byPaul Campbell of the Australian National University and the new theory hinges on a newly discovered poem, dated 1533 and attributed to John …