Cricket: You blew it England.GREG BLEWETT Gregory Scott Blewett (born 29 October 1971, Adelaide, South Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 46 Tests and 32 ODIs from 1995 to 2000. Blewett came into the Australian Test Team in January 1995 against England in Adelaide, scoring a century on debut. has put England's bowlers to the sword again. Four years ago he marched out as a new boy in Test cricket
For the women's version of the game, see . Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. and caned England with two centuries in three Tests. Yesterday his beautifully controlled and commanding 312-minute innings of 143 frustrated England for most of the second day against South Australia South Australia, state (1991 pop. 1,236,623), 380,070 sq mi (984,381 sq km), S central Australia. It is bounded on the S by the Indian Ocean. Kangaroo Island and many smaller islands off the south coast are included in the state. here. England will argue that they improved on their nightmare performance of day one, when they were routed for a shameful 187. That wasn't difficult, after batting so atrociously in perfect conditions. But what should concern Alec Stewart Alec James Stewart OBE (born 8 April, 1963 in Merton, Greater London) is a retired English cricketer, a right-handed batsman-wicketkeeper and former captain of the English cricket team. and his players is that 27-year- old Blewett stands no higher than number nine in the Australian batting rankings! What with barely known batsman Simon Katich Simon Mathew Katich (born August 21, 1975 in Middle Swan, Western Australia) is an Australian cricketer. He is currently the captain of the Derbyshire County Cricket Club, but leaves the county at the end of the 2007 season. hitting them for a hundred in Perth and now Blewett teasing England's bowlers, the first six days of serious cricket Down Under have not instilled much confidence in Stewart's tour party. In most other countries Blewett, capped 31 times, could be looking forward to being part of the Test squad. But he is realistic, saying: "I'm certainly not relying on being in the First Test. "My goal is to have a solid year and try to force my way into the squad for the tour of the West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. that follows the Ashes series This is a list of Ashes cricket series played between Australia and England. Most Ashes series have consisted of five Test matches between the two countries. The Ashes series with the fewest Test matches was the 1887-88 Ashes series, consisting of only one Test. ." He agrees that the depth of batting talent Down Under is "pretty awesome" at present. He added: "Seven or eight years ago, the thought was that it was harder to get out of the Australian side than into it. "That's changed round completely. This is the second time I've been out of the side, so I know what it's all about - fighting to get back." From what we've seen here so far, Stewart's men would be hard-pushed to contain the Aussie shadow Test team if men like Blewett, Matthew Elliott This article is about the Australian cricketer. For other uses, see Matthew Elliott (disambiguation). Matthew Thomas Gray Elliott (born September 28, 1971 in Chelsea, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian cricketer. , Darren Lehmann Darren Scott Lehmann (born 5 February, 1970 in Gawler, South Australia) is an Australian cricketer, who made his ODI debut in 1996 and Test debut in 1998 for the Australian cricket team. and Stuart Law cannot make the top side. Blewett's innings was just another reminder of what England are up against out here. At least, after Saturday's horrors with the bat, the bowlers redeemed themselves after their mediocre efforts in Perth. For the England camp there was relief at seeing Dominic Cork get his act together, while Gus Fraser looked much more his old self. If England are going to play a specialist spinner in the First Test at Brisbane on Friday week, then the tour's shock selection, Peter Such, pushed his claims by nagging away, even when Blewett tried to hit him out of the attack. Once they had been dismissed for under 200, England were always going to be forced to play catch-up cricket. But South Australia, leading by 75 with five first-innings wickets standing, were in the box seat. SCOREBOARD ENGLAND.- First inns: 187 (Hussain 57, Cork 51). SOUTH AUSTRALIA.- First inns Overnight: 26-0. Blewett b Ramprakash 143 Faull b Cork 31 Davies lbw b Headley 18 Vaughan not out 39 Adcock b Fraser 1 Johnson c Stewart b Cork 6 Nielsen not out 8 Extras (b2 lb11 nb3) 16 Total (5 wkts) 262 Fall: 1-89, 2-141, 3-214, 4-219, 5-237. Bowling: Cork 20-10-28-2; Tudor 15-2-50-0; Headley 21-1-67-1; Fraser 17-4-42-1; Such 24-8-51-0; Ramprakash 4-1-11-1. |
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