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Big Bash League 2012/2013 review
23 Jan 2013With the second edition of the BBL now complete, time to take a look at the teams who stepped up and the teams who came crashing down in 2012/2013. Brisbane Heat Talk about timing your run perfectly. It was s surprise they performed as poorly as they did last year given the team was made [...]
Second-year syndrome for the NSP?
8 Jan 2013Perhaps one of the most roundly cheered outcomes from the Argus Review was the removal of Andrew Hilditch and his crew of merry men from the National Selection Panel. Their selections in the series leading up to their demise, particularly the Ashes, had drawn a large amount of scorn and it was almost universally agreed [...]
Is NSW cricket singing the blues?
7 Jan 2013When Brett Lee made those fateful comments that got him in hot water the other week, he was merely stating what many of us were already thinking. The reaction of Cricket NSW to drop the charges against Lee and asked him to join a sub committee, they all but admitted that they had begun thinking [...]
Aussies again hit by sledging criticism
14 Nov 2012As I watched the Aussies push hard for an unlikely victory in the last two sessions of the first Test, I did as many do these days and checked Twitter to see what my fellow Tweeps had to say about the spirited action in front of us. While most of what I read consisted of [...]
Why Nathan needs the Lyon's share of time
24 Oct 201216 months ago I wrote an article for The Roar after the naming of the squad to tour Sri Lanka, and in particular focused on the naming of Michael Beer and Nathan Lyon as spinners. In that article I mentioned that I found it worrying that Lyon was picked on Big Bash form and raised [...]
AFL free agency: Nothing to fear after all
24 Oct 2012If you listened to many AFL coaches or commentators, the pending introduction of free agency was going to create a monster in the game that would see more poaching than an African game reserve and see the game turn into the English Premier League. The first free agency period has now come and gone, and [...]
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