England's Summer of Cricket 2008
Five go off in a highlights package
So what if England didn't win too much last summer? The video chronicle makes for compelling viewing
DVDs
Left-arm predictability
How quickly we forget. A couple of years ago it was Phil Tufnell, buoyed by success on a reality TV show, who was cashing in on the game's many goofs and gaffes, and now it's another left-arm spinner who has taken up the mantle. Ashley Giles must be wondering who he upset to be missed out. Perhaps it's just that he spoilt his chances by being able to bat and field
DVDs
An awful reminder of awfulness
The World Twenty20, for all its manifest flaws, has produced more moments of genuine excitement in a single week than the 50-over World Cup managed in two months of lumpen tedium. It's a good time, then, to be reminded of the excruciating awfulness of the ICC's original crowning glory, the Caribbean "Carnival of Cricket" of March and April this year
The alternative Ashes
A review of the The Final Test on DVD... more
Great cricket, mediocre production
A review of the Ashes Down Under DVD... more
The boys of summer
Last year did provide its own versions of drama and intrigue, as well as a bit of cricket on the side, and it can be relived on a three-disc DVD set. It amounts to over three hours of action and it is certainly value for money... more
Missing the point
A review of Lord's in the 21st Century... more
A little something for the weekend
A review of The Fast Bowler's Bible, which promises to make you bowl quicker... more
A most welcome view
Hidden Ashes takes a different look back at a remarkable series... more
Inattention to detail
Bodyline, the ABC-BBC drama broadcast in 1984 now available on DVD, has the rug pulled from under it by the semi-farcical action sequences, the failing of almost every film or TV show ever made about the game... more
Tuffers' Duffers
The pieces to camera are predictable and cringeworthy but the real problem is the clips themselves which, after all, is what forms the raison d'etre of the product... more
Freddie - The official Andrew Flintoff DVD
This DVD looks back over Flintoff's Ashes and is another remarkable effort of stamina from the allrounder - it was filmed the day after those bleary-eyed scenes at Trafalgar Square... more
Relive the drama that was the Edgbaston Test
A DVD of the remarkable Edgbaston Test is being rush released to satisfy the remarkable public appetite for English cricket... more
Walter Hammond - A Cricketing Great
Of any great cricketer, statistics show only part... more
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