Apart from being a modest cricketer who once infuriated Richard Hadlee by failing to edge one of his outswinging deliveries, Greg Russell has no claim to fame in terms of sporting prowess. His writing on sport thus recalls the famous quip of George Bernard Shaw: “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

As a matter of fact Greg is a teacher, or better said a university academic: he is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and is acknowledged as a world expert in the research area of radical polymerization kinetics.

Watching and writing about sport is a hobby that Greg practises as his work, wife and young daughter allow. He is interested in all sports, with rugby and cricket tending to be specialties because of his schooling at St Ignatius’ College in Sydney and his (accidental) life since 1994 in New Zealand.

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