On www.ashespoetry.net you’ll see an photo of the Adelaide Scoreboard, adapted to take tweets from http://twitter.com/ashespoetry to both indicate how the test’s going and also poetic ideas, notes towards drafting a poem for the day. All done in real time, a bit like leaning over the poet’s shoulder while they’re at their craft.
The idea was James [...]
3rd Test Australia v England Sydney Cricket Ground 7,8,10,11 January 1966 (5-day match)
G Boycott b Philpott 84
R W Barber b Hawke 185
Fall of wickets 1:234 (Boycott) …. England won by an innings and 93 runs
Watching Bob
‘Crikey, were fantastic,
they went everywhere,
smashed all around ground.
I said you can’t play like that,
this is a test match, of course [...]
“Set up nicely for Edgbaston. English and Australian fanatics calculate chances.”
At least half-a-million people were at Edgbaston to see the three run nail-biter of an English win in 2005. And at least half those half-a-million watched the 1966 World Cup victory, not to mention Roger Bannister’s four minute mile, Sir Len regain the Ashes in [...]
No two ways about, if you’re an Australian Fanatic, Lord’s was a dreadful result, nearly as bad, perhaps worse than drawing at Cardiff. Never mind the seventy-four year old Lord’s voodoo going down the clacker – historical records for Australian test teams are only there to be beaten. What’ll hurt is the failure to nail a dead-cert win at [...]
