Daily Archives: March 2, 2009

New England Home Kit for 2009/11

Posted on March 2, 2009
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UPDATE: We are less than 7 hours away from revealing the new England Kit. It will be revealed here at 17:15 PM on Saturday as England take to the pitch. Don’t forget to come back and check out the brand new kit.

We are now just 5 days away from revealing the new England Home Kit for 2009/11 season. The new England Home kit for 2009/11 is available to pre-order now. The kit isn’t launched until 1st April but demand for the strip has been so big that it’s worth getting in and securing your order now to avoid disappointment on the 1st.

Sales of new England kits are always extremely strong on Kitbag at both pre order stage and reveal / launch stage, so it’s a great range of products for you to promote. The new England kit will be revealed on 28th March at 5.15pm (when the England players wear it for the first time against Slovakia at Wembley) – until then nobody will know what the kit looks like (Umbro have done a great job of keeping this one under wraps!!)

Any customer that buys any England Home Kit (2009/11) will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win a 1966 World Cup winner England shirt, which has been personally signed by all the surviving England World Cup winning players (namely Sir Bobby Charlton, Sir Geoff Hurst, Jack Charlton, Martin Peters, Roger Hunt, Gordon Banks, George Cohen, Ray Wilson, Nobby Stiles) plus the late great Alan Ball).…

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Australia cruise to 162 run win in Johannesburg

Posted on March 2, 2009
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Australia have taken a one-nil lead in the three Test series against South Africa with an impressive 162 runs win against the Boks. The visitors have shown the true value of batting to number 10 over the last 12 months but no more so than here in Johannesburg.

Day five loomed bright and early this morning with the game finely balanced with both sides in with a chance of snatching victory. Unless the weather had intervened the draw was the only unlikely result especially with a full day’s play on offer.

Australia required eight second innings wickets for victory and South Africa just 276 runs to win, both a possibility given the pedigree of the two teams on show. Unfortunately for South Africa the win was very much a distant dream by lunch with the home side sitting on a precarious 5 for 247.

Tight bowling was the key to the early success as the visitors just sat back and waited for the mistakes to come. Hilfenhaus and Johnson bowled well and troubled both batsmen (Kallis and Amla) early on. Despite the onslaught they survived the double pronged attack until Siddle forced a mistake from Amla who held out to Hughes at mid-wicket.

Five runs later Andrew McDonald, who is still learning his international trade, applied constant pressure and it was AB De Villiers who lost his patience and fell to a leg before decision with Billy Bowden officiating. Aware of the importance of his wicket South Africa went to a referral but it was in vain.

Kallis struggled to push the game on and was eventually bowled by Johnson five runs short of a dogged 50. The promising and highly sought after Duminy shared a brief 39 run partnership with Boucher until Duminy gave Siddle his second …

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