Ashley Giles
Ashley Giles
Ashley Fraser Giles MBEis an English retired cricketer. Giles played the entirety of his 14-year first-class career at Warwickshire County Cricket Club. He played 54 Test matches and 62 One Day Internationals for England before being forced to retire due to a recurring hip injury...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth19 March 1973
anyone atmosphere basically county cricket disrespect found played players quite tricky
It's a completely different atmosphere to '98. It's much more professional and we are much more together. I found it quite tricky in '98. No disrespect to anyone in that side, because players made me feel welcome, but it was very disjointed. Now we are basically another county team. We know each other that well. We've played that much cricket together.
andrew bowling dark understand ways
You can understand it in some ways with Andrew Flintoff bowling at 90mph in dark light,
dressing happening quiet room sort
Everyone is on edge, the dressing room is very quiet and it is a 'this can't be happening to us' sort of scenario.
sitting worse
It is a lot worse sitting up there than it was in the middle,
became bowling damage discovered expected likely line naturally operation surgeon tight time weeks
Naturally I'm very disappointed. But a tight time line became even tighter once the surgeon discovered more damage than was expected and to be back bowling 10 weeks after the operation was probably always likely to be optimistic.
apart bonding films good team trip watching
a very good trip for team bonding because there wasn't a lot to do apart from watching films and talking.
hands firsts ashes
We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]
seven sorts wickets
When you're seven wickets down, all sorts of things go through your head,