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Arise Sir Ricky, Dame Pink and Lady Lady Gaga

08 Jan 11:37am

Filed under: Cricket, Monarchy, Ricky Ponting, Royal Honours, Summer

Let me be the first to say it: surely the entire Australian cricket team must now be awarded honorary knighthoods, or at the very least some form of membership of the British Empire.

The Australians celebrating a win this week. Surely they deserve recognition from the Queen?

The series win against Pakistan matches the efforts of the 2005 Ashes-winning team. Every player in that England side was awarded the MBE (the captain getting the slightly more elevated OBE) and there are now calls for Paul Collingwood to be knighted after the England all-rounder saved the third Test against South Africa this week.

Australia’s win at the SCG came too late for the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List, but there were many worthy recipients.

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Sean says:

09:09am | 11/01/10

Here here Liz. Too right it’s time to become a republic. No disrespect to the English but really, I don’t want any further official ties with them so can we please have the bloody referendum that Howard helped kill off and get on with it. Replace that messy little union… Read more »
Liz says:

08:06am | 11/01/10

The British Empire…does it exist anymore? Didn’t some of those pink bits on the map change colour? About time Australia became a Republic and did away with all this rubbish. Read more »

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