Chucking crackdown 20 years too late - Hair - Latest Cricket-News

Former international umpire Darrell Hair has said the ICC's crackdown on bowlers with suspect actions has come 20 years too late, and that the weakness of umpires over time to do anything about the issue has helped created a "generation of chuckers." Hair was the first umpire to call former Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan for chucking during a Boxing Day

Miracle Moment In The Ashes

Edgbaston 1981 will always be the Salieri Test, an overshadowed masterpiece due to its proximity to the greatest of all time, a Magical Mystery Tour too often swamped by the wake of Headingley's Sgt Pepper. Yet in truth it is part of a double-header, two stunning Tests that serve to embellish the other, part of a pair of symbiotic matches central to the almost mythical aura of the 1981 Ashes.

With England having levelled the series at 1-1 in Leeds the nine days between Tests had not been quite as smooth as might be imagined. After arguably the greatest victory in Ashes history it seems almost perverse that England opted to drop a player and rejig the batting lineup but that they did.

10 Amazing Facts About Ashes That You Really Wanted To Know

IF you’re bleary-eyed reading this it probably means you’ve been up all night watching the Ashes, and as a diehard fan you’ll probably know everything about the England v Australia cricket series.

Our topic of the day is more for the casual observers or those people who just have to have some random bits of trivia at their disposal for when the right time comes to share.

For you we present 10 facts about The Ashes series you might not know