It sort of Apes it. (View Post)

I would point out that Russia went through much worse than that in the Civil War - Nove put manufacturing decline down as a staggering 87% from 1914 to 1921 - but it came through. With difficulty, bu… (View Post)

It is remarkable to think that just two players who played in Australia’s last defeat against England in Oz - Smith and Khawaja - are still playing Tests, and only two more (Siddle and Anderson) stil… (View Post)

That would be a very bad outcome for English cricket as a whole then. (View Post)

Somebody should have called a halt. Sadly, as nobody did so two men appear to have done a Harold Holt. (Too soon?) (View Post)