This was the game we’d been waiting to play all season – playing the team with girls from the Queensland woman’s squad.

This last week, I’d been obsessing over the upcoming club game (as well as the Ashes, of course). This was the second half of a two day game we desperately needed to win. Our team was languishing fifth in a six team competition where only the top 3 qualified for the finals.

An engrossing final day’s play in the first Ashes Test at Cardiff ended with England holding on to seal an unlikely draw…

When Mitchell Johnson’s opening spell on Day 1 was flat and insipid, Ricky Ponting responded by spelling him after only 3 overs. I was surprised and impressed.

The Ashes starts in a few days so I’d better get my club cricket blog post out of the way! This week, we played a two-dayer against the team we thrashed in the one-dayers . I tried to dial down any overconfidence by reminding our team they were still above us on the ladder. We lost the toss and were sent in (again, our teammates were perplexed by this decision – who doesn’t bat upon winning the toss?!) As the captain pencilled in the batting order, several voices suggested I bat at #3

Aaron Kumar analyses comments made by Kumar Sangakkara about whether Twenty20 cricket is actually a bowler’s game…