August golden oldies
Twenty days of Wagner per summer is nowhere near enough.
1. 2. 3. Williamson, 4. Cricket with Kane 5. greatest three-pronged pace attack? Discuss at your leisure, but for consistency, longevity and contrasting yet complementary skills, I haven’t seen a better trio. 6. It must be frustrating waiting in line. As opposed to the wafer thin batting and spin bowling stocks, New Zealand has genuine pace bowling options. The ever-unlucky Matt Henry has Doug Bracewell, Lockie Ferguson and probably Scott Kuggeleijn for company as those who could do a fine job at the highest level. 7. Sodhi needs to develop a stock ball capable of getting good players out if he is to succeed at test level in New Zealand conditions. His leggie hasn’t enough on it to trouble good players, so they can sit on his variations and pick off his bad balls. 8. For a guy with such a simple approach to cricket and with such an uncomplicated batting and bowling technique, Colin de Grandhomme 9. 10. 11.
Tim Dahlberg
They’re older now, no longer the 20-somethings who together helped usher golf into a new era.
The evidence of that isn’t in their golf swings, but in their appearance. When Tiger Woods takes off his hat after a round, there’s a pronounced bald spot and Phil Mickelson looks, well, like a guy should look as he approaches the half century mark.
In most other sports they wouldn’t be contenders. In most other sports they wouldn’t even be playing.
But at the Masters, against a field loaded with young talent, they’re among the favourites.
Not just of the fans, who enjoyed the unlikely pairing of Mickelson and Woods in a rare practice round together yesterday. Oddsmakers in Vegas think both have a good shot at donning the traditional green jacket, and if it’s Mickelson he would be the oldest Masters champion.
A Masters for the ages? How about one for the aged?
“We’re at the tail end of our careers, we both know that,” Woods said. “He’s 47, I believe, and I’m 42, and we have had a great 20-year battle, hopefully we’ll have a few more. But we understand where we are in the game now versus where we were in our early 20s, battling for who is going to be No 1. And that was then and certainly this is now.”