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The Ashes: 5th Test, Day 4 - [expletive deleted]

Seamus Byrne — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sports Asylum AU: We failed. Run outs? Unbelievable in the circumstances. What a way to throw away the chance at a famous victory. Ponting and Hussey were looking immovable. Another session of that and the Poms would have been...

The Ashes: 5th Test, Day 3 - More bad news

Seamus Byrne — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sports Asylum AU: No there just isn’t anything good to say about this, is there? What looked like a disintegrating goat track while the Aussies were at bat has turned out to be more benign. Seems it may have been a certain...

The Ashes: 5th Test, Day 2 - More insightful repartee

Seamus Byrne — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sports Asylum AU: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... Hang on, that almost sounded British. What am I meant to say in a situation like this? It’s so... foreign! Let’s run with CRIKEY for now. I’d love to say...

The Ashes: 5th Test, Day 1 -- Our insightful repartee

Seamus Byrne — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sports, Cheat Sheet Asylum AU: An Indian dustbowl laid as a pitch at The Oval? Got to hand it those Poms for borderline dodgy strategic preparations. No one is going to tell me this pitch wasn’t specially crafted to order - a...

Man rings saucy TV channel to discuss the Ashes

Michael Rundle — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sex, Humour, Women, Sports, Video There’s something strange about Britain’s version of digital television. Take the weird live chat stripper channels, for instance. Lonely blokes ring up scantily clad slappers and breathe...

Ian Bell set for Test recall as England name squad

Cric Bytes — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:10:20 +0000

Warwickshire batsman Ian Bell is set to get a Test recall as England named on Sunday a 13-man squad for next week’s third match of the Ashes series at his Edgbaston home...

Ashes - Second Test, Day 2 recap

Seamus Byrne — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sports, Cheat Sheet Asylum’s daily round up of all things Ashes. Keep up with more of our coverage in the Sports section. Comments from Asylum Australia: Ummm... what the hell is going on? Is this Bizarro World? Or are we just...

Ashes - Second Test, Day 1 recap

Seamus Byrne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sports, News, Cheat Sheet Asylum’s daily round up of the best coverage from The Ashes. Keep up with all our coverage in the Sports section. Comments from Asylum Australia: Not the start you’re really looking for when...

Australia's 10 smuggest Ashes moments

Seamus Byrne — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sports We can admit it. It feels brilliant to serve it up to the Poms every time we ‘bring’ the Ashes home (’bring’ because they never actually hand them over). So instead of looking at the history of...

How to follow the Ashes (while tucked up in bed)

Michael Rundle — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sports, How To Following the Ashes can be trickier than you’d expect when you have to do boring things like sleep, or work, or maintain your social relationships at the same time. Luckily it’s exactly for this reason that...