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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…
It feels weird that we’ve more recently won a Test series in India than we have in England.
Australia's touring team analysed – and why the selectors have missed a trick
and I liked Head before it was cool.
{snigger}
Agree on Kuhnemann – he would have been my second spinner picked.
Also agree that it was pointless to take Morris. He’d be better back here playing Sheffield Shield.
Australia's touring team analysed – and why the selectors have missed a trick
And also a Teams Wearing a Red V Must Win Round.
But that is absolutely it after that.
If you celebrate everything, you're celebrating nothing: NRL must show us respect and shut up about Respect Round
8.3% ? Isn’t that a ringing endorsement to keep it?
'Dog s--t' rule NRL coaches want boned, surprising Nicho Hynes snub and their verdict on golden point, refs
My first thought was that you were railing against a straw man. But then I searched out what PVL actually said and, FMD, you are right to call him out:
“We were always going to look at a Respect Round,” V’landys said.
“What a Respect Round is, is that it respects everyone’s views. We might not agree with them, but we respect them.
“So if we were going to do anything we were going to do a Respect Round. It wasn’t going to be a Pride Round because then you alienate other people.
“We pride ourselves on being an inclusive game. To be an inclusive game you have to respect everyone’s view.”
They really are the words of a person who has always gotten his own way and has no idea what it even means to respect other views.
If you celebrate everything, you're celebrating nothing: NRL must show us respect and shut up about Respect Round
It’s not like those other 4 played on bad teams.
And I still go back to that 2014 Origin when the greatest team of all time couldn’t cover for the loss of Cronk, even when he was replaced with someone as good as DCE.
25 in 25: Best player of NRL era - Smith, Lockyer, Johns, Thurston, Slater, Inglis, Tallis, Fittler?
Tallis, Tallis, WTF is Tallis also played for the Dragonsof course but not in the NRL era.
Like Benji, he’s WAY too high on this list.
25 in 25: Best player of NRL era - Smith, Lockyer, Johns, Thurston, Slater, Inglis, Tallis, Fittler?
Frankly, most forwards come into this category. The top 10 should really only include elite spine players because they add the list value and are harder to find.
25 in 25: Best player of NRL era - Smith, Lockyer, Johns, Thurston, Slater, Inglis, Tallis, Fittler?
Not a single Dragons player (and yes I know Benji played a couple of seasons for us).
BMoz, at least, would be one of the first players chosen in an All Time NRL team.
But the scandal here is Cronk at 12 when he really should be about 6.
25 in 25: Best player of NRL era - Smith, Lockyer, Johns, Thurston, Slater, Inglis, Tallis, Fittler?
4-0 India.
Cricket News: Khawaja in doubt for final, Aussies out of World Cup, Jofra returns, Kiwis upset India
He can’t beat Novak over 5 sets.
Greek tragedy gets sequel: Tsitsipas earns chance for revenge on Djokovic after choke job last time round in final
Ennis a bit higher I reckon.
Best hooker of NRL era - Smith the king but tough to separate Buderus, Luke, Cook, Farah, Koroisau, Hodgson
He got a quite a few first downs today. You don’t need a 60 yard TD run to have a good game.
Is Christian McCaffrey the greatest attacking weapon in football?
Been watching him since College and his Heismann runner up year.
If he ca stay healthy for a season an MVP isn’t out of the question for him.
Is Christian McCaffrey the greatest attacking weapon in football?
She says she loves playing cricket (plus that’s her job) so that’s her default position. But she can also express a view that she’d prefer not to play.
It’s a nuanced position that I think she’s played very well.
'Beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession': Indigenous star slams Australia Day women's fixture
Gardner is taking a very mature position for a 25 year old. It’s going to one interesting to see what she turns her hand to post her cricket career.
'Beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession': Indigenous star slams Australia Day women's fixture
She is playing on Australia Day. She just doesn’t like it that she has to .
'Beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession': Indigenous star slams Australia Day women's fixture
Stoopid founding fathers – they really didn’t think that though.
'Beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession': Indigenous star slams Australia Day women's fixture
She’s not refusing to play.
'Beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession': Indigenous star slams Australia Day women's fixture
My first and probably only BBL of the season.
Well worth it.
Smudge supreme! Smith whacks another ton, outscores everyone else COMBINED as Sixers massacre Thunder
But hey, in this day and age, everyone gets a medal.
That’s a weird comment.
25 in 25: Best Origin player of NRL era - Joey, Thurston, Lockyer, Slater, Smith, Tallis, Gallen?
I have all the respect in the world for Buderus but I don’t think even his mum would have put him ahead of Slater, Cronk and Inglis.
And I can’t help but think Matt Scott and Luke Lewis should be on here somewhere.
25 in 25: Best Origin player of NRL era - Joey, Thurston, Lockyer, Slater, Smith, Tallis, Gallen?
The Law change/clarification is interesting . Clearly the MCC finally worked out that their interpretation didn’t match the Laws as written.
The new Laws mean that the Mankad is now very difficult for fast bowlers other than in quite egregious cases. But it does mean that runners can get a bit more of a head start against the quicks.
It also means that the women’s T20 case late last year was probably not out.
Man o' Mankad: Put respect back on name by recognising his cleverness in outsmarting unsporting Aussie legend
I’m sure they when I played a bit of indoor cricket in the 90s and 00s, “Mankad” was actually listed as a form of dismissal.
Man o' Mankad: Put respect back on name by recognising his cleverness in outsmarting unsporting Aussie legend
Winning the toss might be Patty’s biggest contribution to the series.
Australia's touring team analysed – and why the selectors have missed a trick