Exeposé’s online sports editor Ed Alexander takes a look back at some of the lesser-known sporting stories from the last seven days
Cricket
World Cup over the Ashes? Who cares!
Was it worth sacrificing the Ashes to win the World Cup? Rhodri Evans looks back on England’s spectacular cricketing summer. There is little doubt, looking back on this summer of cricket, that it has been the most exciting and enthralling since 2005, if not even 1981. The British public jumped on the cricketing bandwagon for […]
The Long Game, Sport’s Fallen Prodigies: Cricket
In this first instalment of The Long Game, Michael Rudling looks at three cricket ‘prodigies’ whose outstanding natural ability and potential left fans expecting more.
West Indies Shrug Off Average Tag In Second Test
With the conclusion of the second Test Match of three in the Caribbean between the West Indies and England, many questions have been raised over the quality of this England side. Especially when that same squad came into the series off the back of an away whitewash, 3-0, in Sri Lanka and a flattering but […]
The Ashes: England left to rue missed opportunity in first test
So all as expected. Australia cruise to an easy ten-wicket victory over England at the Gabba. But it could have been different. For three days this Test match was a tight and tense affair with neither side able to land the decisive blow; England failed to press home their advantages when in the ascendency, though. […]
Ashes Preview 2017/18: Can England really win Down Under?
With the England squad having landed in Australia and preparations underway, the build-up to this winter’s Ashes series can well and truly begin. With the warm-up games already underway, some random 14-year-old Australian will rip through England’s batting order to destroy any optimism before the series has even begun. In fact, if any optimism did […]
Legends, not myths: Sir Len Hutton
The Second World War stole the lives of many great men and less importantly, robbed numerous potential sporting legends of the best years of their career. As a man who volunteered for the army in 1939, Len Hutton could easily have fallen into either category. The Yorkshire opener spent the time between his twenty-third and […]
Rooting for Joe
When Alastair Cook announced he was stepping down from the England captaincy after a painful winter in India, it seemed only a matter of time before his vice-captain Joe Root would be appointed as his successor. Brief mentions were given to Stuart Broad and Ben Stokes, but inevitably England’s best batsmen was revealed as the […]
Myths not Legends: Geoffrey Boycott
Supreme talent and a selfless attitude rarely go hand in hand and there is no greater example of this than Geoffrey Boycott, a man described by Ian Botham as ‘totally, almost insanely, selfish.’ Botham’s words bring to mind the old adage that you can judge a man by the number of enemies he has. From […]
BUCS in Brief: Wednesday 27/4/16
Exeter Men’s Cricket 2s v Exeter Men’s Cricket 3s (2s won by 9 runs) Reporter: Ben Cartwright Exeter 2s came out victorious against fellow-clubmates EUMCC 3s in a tight season opener at Topsham Sports Ground. In a week where many Exeter students had dissertation deadlines to stick to, it would be the 3s that would run […]