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A batting average of 50 in Test cricket has, in my lifetime at least, always been a magical career milestone. Certainly if you watched…
My Uncle Thomas was as big a league fan as I and we watched a lot of footy together. But there was one key difference – he didn’t have a team that he supported.
I was listening to Roar Guru Julian King host the SEN 1170 lunchtime show earlier this week. One of the topics of the day…
Given the disappointing lack of Test cricket that the Australian team has played since 2019, it may have passed Roar readers’ notice that other…
I have been watching rugby league for about 40 years now. I am very weary Dragons fan but a satisfied Queensland fan. So, it…
In what seems a lifetime ago, I wrote an article after David Warner’s 335* against Pakistan arguing that Warner should have been allowed to…
Yep, you guessed it, yet another cricket team comprising a group of people with some vague connection. I had hoped to put together a…
In Jon Richardson’s current series of articles on the best cricketing birthplaces, he listed Seymour Nurse in his All Time Bridgetown XI. My only…
Like many of you, I have very much enjoyed All Day Roseville’s series on Ashes teams by month of birth. While he is finishing…
We finished yesterday’s review of matches where world-record innings were scored with Don Bradman’s famous 334 at Headingley. That innings was part of Bradman’s…
Tim Paine’s decision to declare on David Warner on 335 not out in the second Test against Pakistan gave rise to debate as to…
In recent months cricket fans and media have become somewhat obsessed with Steve Smith, both with the amount of runs he has been scoring…
Now that I have completed my series of articles on All Time XIs by the alphabet, I thought it would be worthwhile opening the…
We finish with the Ws. As expected, this team is immensely strong and probably the most thrilling of all the teams. So strong, in…
After a three month hiatus while I wasted my long service leave watching the Australian cricket team in England, then held my breath for…
There were some big decisions to be made in compiling this team. Which tearaway – the Terror or Typhoon?; which Hugh, Tayfield or Trumble?;…
This team should be strong given the deep talent pool to choose from. However I did find it hard to compile given the number…
With the pairs of Richards (and sons) and Russells, as well as other high quality players, the 'R' Team is perhaps best described as…
We are coming round the bend now, with the home straight in sight. This is the supercomposite team including all the letters that you…
The P Team is an interesting one in that there are five or six current international cricketers who might reasonably earn a spot in…
I wouldn’t mind seeing Neser.
'A big miss': Poms cop another blow as vice-captain ruled out for series as return looms for Bazball outcast
The moral outrage from me would be at an Australian batter being so stupid.
Stuart Broad has just given Pat Cummins a lecture on moral standards. The audacity is gobsmacking
or Mitchell Johnson bowling overarm to deny Jonathan Trott a career, Australia has always chosen the path of hatred.
That’s cold. Funny as fcuk. But cold.
The spirit of cricket was murdered in cold blood by sunburnt thugs - and the game might never recover
Happy to disallow them for everyone other than the No 11.
Northern View: Cummins should have spared Bairstow, McGrath owes an apology, and end of an era for England
Three big things for me from this match:
– the catch Law needs to be clarified – particularly the meaning of control.
– runners should be allowed when a team is 9 wickets down (as the chance for playing silly buggers is minimal)
– the pitch was awful so as unedifying as the Bodyline tactics were the bowling sides were given little option.
Northern View: Cummins should have spared Bairstow, McGrath owes an apology, and end of an era for England
England won a World Cup off the back of something similar.
Stokes could have blocked the next ball after that deflected boundary. But, rightly, he didn’t.
COMMENT: Cummins failed the moral test and tarnished these Ashes. He had the chance to be a legend and blew it
Well, as an Australian fan I am entirely comfortable with Cummins’ captaincy on this point.
His captaincy around how they bowled to Stokes and the tail on the other hand…
'If I could turn back time': Baz's journey from 'stupidity' to 'obvious' mistake, and why Pat could live to regret stance
So Stokes instructing his bowlers to bowl 6 short balls an over at the tail (including at a guy who can barely stand up) is within the Spirit or Cricket?
Aussies 2-0 up despite sensational Stokes ton as Lord's erupts over run out controversy, cheating accusations
We need to give more respect to Carey’s throw. Hit middle half way up.
Something none of the Aussie bowlers could for about 60 overs of Day 5.
'Worst thing I’ve ever seen in cricket': Broad, McCullum whinge about Bairstow drama but McDonald returns serve
Lyon should come out to bowl, trip over and faceplant into the turf. We get Murphy as a concussion substitute.
Lyon likely out for series as Cricket Australia confirm 'significant' calf injury
I don’t think so.
Lyon likely out for series as Cricket Australia confirm 'significant' calf injury
Well if this is Lyon’s final test, his last wicket was a cracker.
Lyon likely out for series as Cricket Australia confirm 'significant' calf injury
For Brook? I mean I’d love that because Brook is a gun. But better to open with Bairstow and drop Duckett or Crawley.
Did Stokes' declaration cost England the First Test? Embrace the chaos and admit you don't know
Well said although Sliding Doors might have been a more appropriate film to reference. Or maybe Avengers: Endgame or Loki.
Personally, I think the decision to declare was the wrong decision based on information available at the time. In that sense, I think it made it harder for England to win from that point onwards. But no, it didn’t “cost” England the match.
Did Stokes' declaration cost England the First Test? Embrace the chaos and admit you don't know
Yesterday was one of the greatest days of sport in my life – winning a thrilling Ashes Test and a dominant Queensland SOO win.
It’s a shame the only viewing option on both was Ch 9.
Ad nauseum: Channel Nine's coverage of the Ashes is not up to standard
Let’s face it, in a battle of wits between Billy and Cam Smith v Freddie and Joey, there was always going to be one winner.
Freddie’s Cooked: How tactical blunders, selection mistakes and a failure to learn doomed the Blues boss
What is Adam Clyne up to these days?
Dear Ben Hunt: Avoid cowardly act, lest your Dragons legacy be completely ruined
Don’t get me wrong – I loved Larson as a player. I wish the Dragons has someone like him now.
But Clyde was an Immortal level player for the first 5 years of his career before injury.
Who makes the cut for the greatest combined Origin team of all time?
I always respect your work Tony but Gary Larson or Gilly over Brad Clyde? And I say that as a Queensland supporter.
Who makes the cut for the greatest combined Origin team of all time?
I mean excluded from the “Never won a premiership” list.
All guts but no glory: The 250-game players who’ve never won a premiership
The ball went into his found above the ground and he never lost control of it.
Out.
The bigger question is how long will Gill’s suspension be.
REACTION: 'Cheat, cheat, cheat!' Greats fume, fans enraged as Green catch controversy divides cricket world
Doesn’t feel right to exclude the Storm players who were stripped of the Premiership.
All guts but no glory: The 250-game players who’ve never won a premiership
I knew this headline was going to come back and bite us.
Aussies all but Test world champions as Boland stakes Ashes claim with superb spell
Hate the headline.
Aussies all but Test world champions as Boland stakes Ashes claim with superb spell
We don’t need 5 frontline bowlers.
Marsh returns after four years in wilderness as Aussies make three changes, England win toss