Tag: Will MacPherson

PAPER TALK…

12 January 2018 0 comments

Our national cricket writers offer their views on the Ashes tour as the post-mortem begins on another heavy defeat in […]

Title triumph is still fresh in the mind but this year is all that matters now…

31 March 2017 0 comments

Will Macpherson Will Macpherson speaks to the hero of last year as Toby Roland-Jones aims to make it two titles […]

Simpson is the hero as champs clinch thriller

31 March 2017 0 comments

By Will Macpherson “WE never do it easy, do we?” laughed John Simpson as he was again the hero in […]

Will MacPherson’s Diary from Down Under – Dispatch 5

23 December 2013 0 comments

So it’s over. Australia won the Urn back after three glorious series of English dominance. In the end it took just 14 days and there was only ever one side in it.

Will MacPherson’s Diary from Down Under – Dispatch 4

12 December 2013 0 comments

Well the second Test didn’t go to plan did it? England’s meagre resistance lasted just short of an hour on Monday as their lower order, many of them accomplished batsmen, inexplicably came out hooking and flailing when, surely, the situation called for them to bat time and attempt to tire their rampant opponents out.

Will MacPherson’s Diary from Down Under

14 November 2013 0 comments

Just as the England team discovered in Hobart, I’ve made the uncomfortable realisation that Down Under the skies aren’t always blue and the temperature isn’t always 30 degrees.

Diary from Down Under – Dispatch 1

9 November 2013 0 comments

I’ve been in Melbourne since last Tuesday and the city’s passion for the game is visible everywhere. There are Ovals on every corner and the detection of my Pom accent has, without fail, led to heated discussions about the game, much to my amusement.