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Mark Cosgrove deserves a Test run
1 May 2013Two very important cricket squads were announced last week. One was the much awaited squad for the Ashes tour of England, which reminded us of how underwhelming the current crop of Australian players are; the other was South Australia’s list for the next Sheffield Shield season. Neither of these squads featured the name of the [...]
Sri Lanka series a launching pad to greater things
14 Dec 2012The first Test match between Australia and Sri Lanka starting in Hobart today is a new start for Australia. Wounds will have been licked and players will be ready to take on a side that should offer little concern to our star-studded, but still not totally proven, line-up. A team that less than a month [...]
Bridgewater: A home for mudlarks
19 Jul 2012Former Glenelg and Hawthorn star Tony Hall is well known for two career moments – the first is his miraculous 1992 State of Origin goal against Victoria at Football Park. The other is slightly more infamous. In 1989, South Australia headed across to the MCG to take on the might of Victoria (strangely featuring Jason [...]
Boof Lehmann's bronze age at Adelaide Oval
26 Jan 2012Former Australian Test cricketer Darren Lehmann was honoured today at the Adelaide Oval when a life-sized bronze sculpture was unveiled before the start of the second day’s play in the Fourth Test against India. The statue sees Lehmann facing up, the length of a cricket pitch away, to his Australian and South Australian team-mate and [...]
Queensland top of the under-19 tree
21 Jan 2012Queensland has secured the Australian under-19 cricket championship with two comfortable victories in the final T20 section of the titles played in Adelaide. The Bananabenders had a 53-run victory over the NT in the first of the day’s matches to win the title, and then had a freewheeling win over New South Wales in its [...]
Kristy Moore a pioneer for the game
18 Jan 2012When the time comes to look back on her soccer career, former Trinity College student Kristy Moore will realise how much of a pioneer she has been in the game. In the 1990s, men’s players such as Paul Okon, Robbie Slater, John Aloisi, Ned Zelic and Mark Viduka made a beeline for Europe, showing the [...]
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