Andrew Flintoff bowled with furious pace and sustained hostility Monday to propel England to their first Ashes win over Australia at Lord’s since 1934. Flintoff bowled unchanged from the Pavilion end to finish on the honours’ board with five for 92 as England wrapped up the second Ashes test by 115 runs before lunch on [...]
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Flintoff bowls England to famous victory
Posted by shantanu on July 21st, 2009
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Tags: 2nd npower Test, 5th day from The Ashes - England v Australia 2009, Andrew Flintoff, Andrew Strauss, Australia cricket, Australia tour of England and Scotland, England cricket, England v Australia at Lord's, Flintoff's Australian fetish, Graeme Swann, Lord's, Match report of England v Australia, Michael Clarke, Mitchell Johnson 
No Comments »Flintoff to retire from Test cricket
Posted by shantanu on July 15th, 2009
Andrew Flintoff has announced that he will retire from Test cricket at the end of this Ashes summer, although he still intends to make himself available for Twenty20 and ODI cricket, and is expected to be fit for tomorrow’s second Test against Australia. Flintoff, who has missed 25 of England’s last 48 Tests through a [...]
Ashes Series Day-5: England v Australia 2009
Posted by shantanu on July 13th, 2009
England 435 (Pietersen 69, Collingwood 64, Prior 56) and 252 for 9 (Collingwood 74, Hilfenhaus 3-37) drew with Australia 674 for 6 dec (Ponting 150, Katich 122, North 125*, Haddin 121, Clarke 81) James Anderson and Monty Panesar produced the most important innings of their lives as England’s final pair survived 11.3 overs to pull [...]
Posted in Ashes Series, Australia Cricket Series, England Cricket Series, ICC, One Day International Series 2009, Test Series Tags: 1st npower Test, 5th day from The Ashes - England v Australia 2009, Australia cricket, Australia tour of England and Scotland, Cardiff, England cricket, England v Australia at Cardiff, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Match report of England v Australia, Monty Panesar, Nathan Hauritz, Paul Collingwood No Comments »Ponting, Katich tons put Australia in command
Posted by shantanu on July 10th, 2009
Simon Katich and Ricky Ponting each scored centuries as Australia reached 249 for one at stumps to take the upper hand on the second day of the first Ashes Test on Thursday. Responding to England’s first innings total of 435, opener Katich was on 104 at the close while captain Ponting brought up his 100 [...]
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