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10.50am BST
“I’ve enjoyed your OBO coverage this summer,” says Tom van der Gucht, “and was engaged by your preamble regarding the linking of sport and life this morning reminding me of your article about the intertwined period of the Ashes and your own turbulent life experiences in 2005 - something that ought to be dramatised on the BBC in a similar fashion to My Summer With Des starring Neil Morrisery and Rachel Weiz, if you saw it. Not that I’m saying you should be played by Tony from Men Behaving Badly...
I had a quick look on your bio and saw you are working on a film about Eubank and Benn and it got me wondering what cricketing period would be ripe for a film adaptation. I remember reading that David Peace was working on a book about Boycott’s fall-out with the Yorkshire committee in a similar vein to his Damned United fictionalised account of LUFC, but I don’t think that has materialised yet.
Related: When sport and real life collide: a story about getting divorced during the 2005 Ashes
10.45am BST
“From the preamble on James Anderson,” says James Byrne, “600 wickets and 29 fifers: ‘We will never experience anything like it again.’ Well, at least not until Stuart Broad does it in a couple of years...”
Broad will do well to match the fifers – he’s on 18 at the moment – but might get to 600, though the competition for places makes it tricker that previously. But it’ll still be different, because Broad is a different thing. We’ll never see anything like him again either, even if he calls it a career this morning. Continue reading...