While politicans try to make political capital of the Olympics it seems that a spat has developed between England and Australia over the medal tally. It started when The Sun drove mobile billboards around London and Sydney saying ‘Where the bloody hell were you?’ and pointing out Team GB’s superior gold medal tally to Australia. Now the

As has already recently been noted here by Michael Jennings, Australia is just now doing rather badly at cricket. The first day of the recently concluded Melbourne game was, for Australia, particularly calamitous. Australia all out 98, England 157 for no wicket. That, trust me, was very bad indeed for Australia. Bear in mind that this was not just any old bad day; this was Boxing Day at the MCG, a...

There are few institutions more ridiculous than the England and Wales Cricket Board. Think back to the glorious summer of 2005 when England and Australia contested the most thrilling Ashes series in living memory, against the backdrop of the London Tube bombings. England won that series 2-1, against a great Australia side, and for a time it seemed as if every second person you met was talking abou...

Second Ashes Test, Adelaide: Australia 245 all out v England 317-2 (day two, stumps) Alastair Cook hit an unbeaten 136 as England built a 72-run lead on day two of the second Test against Australia.  

The hottest story in cricket just now, if you are an England cricket fan like me, is the apparently near simultaneous resignations of the England captain and the England coach, but I think the bigger story in the long-run is the third test between Australia and South Africa, which Australia won this morning (my time). Had South Africa won, they would have won the series 3-0. As it was, they won th...

England’s star bowler, Katherine Blunt, made short work of Australia’s top order batting on the first day of the test, and Australia were just 70 for 5 at lunchtime, with Blunt having taken 4 of those wickets. She later also dismissed Australian captain Jodie Fields - by the end of play Blunt had 5 wickets

Congratulations to Freddie Flintoff and England for their fantastic victory yesterday. After last week’s performance in Cardiff, I feared the worse, particularly as England hadn’t beaten Australia at Lords in 75 years. Now Tory MP, the Sven Goran Eriksson lookalike Peter Bone, has hailed the victory as evidence that the Tories are on course for election success next year, saying "histo...

Extraordinary action in Sydney overnight. Cook and Bell dominated, and this must surely mark the end of an era for Australian cricket. Fifth Ashes Test: Australia 280 v England 488 for 7 (stumps, day three). England could even win this in four days.

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I am in Australia visiting my sister and her family, and the effect of climate change is evident all around. In Bendigo, Victoria, where she lives, there has been a full-on drought for over a decade. When I first visited over 20 years ago, Victoria was as green as South East England. Now, it is...