A Vintage Year ... for Cricket
Leader: What do English cricketers and French grapes have in common? They do not always travel well and both are spoiled by exposure to excessive heat. They also appear to have enjoyed a quite exceptional summer last year.
What do English cricketers and French grapes have in common? They do not always travel well and both are spoiled by exposure to excessive heat. They also appear to have enjoyed a quite exceptional summer last year.
Wine experts are waxing ecstatic about the 2005 Bordeaux. Conditions were perfect, they say, delivering a vintage almost certain never to be repeated in our lifetime. The same seems to be true of our cricket, if England's performance in India is anything to go by.
We therefore recommend buying a DVD of England's Ashes victory and a bottle of Mouton Rothschild and laying them down. Open in 30 years' time; watch and drink to the unique summer of 2005.
Wine experts are waxing ecstatic about the 2005 Bordeaux. Conditions were perfect, they say, delivering a vintage almost certain never to be repeated in our lifetime. The same seems to be true of our cricket, if England's performance in India is anything to go by.
We therefore recommend buying a DVD of England's Ashes victory and a bottle of Mouton Rothschild and laying them down. Open in 30 years' time; watch and drink to the unique summer of 2005.
Use the feedback form below to submit your comments.
Use the form below to email this article to your friends.
- Ronaldo Slams Webb for Red Card
- Keane Must Curb Self-destruct Habit to Revive Sunderland
- England Send Their Security Expert to Report on India
- 'I Need Motivating. Hatton and London Motivate Me'
- Cricketers Must Show Home is Not Where the Fainthearts Are
- Martins Says Sorry for Reaction
- Everton Look to Rekindle Short-term Larsson Deal
- We Decide When Drogba Leaves, Says Defiant Kenyon
- Chelsea Will Be Self-sufficient By Next Year, Says Kenyon
- UK Sport Fears Treasury Will Break £20m Olympic Funding Pledge