It’s late, it’s warm, and the entire England cricket team is sitting in the middle of The Oval wearing whites with a guitar and…
It’s late, it’s warm, and the entire England cricket team is sitting in the middle of The Oval wearing whites with a guitar and…
There are very few games where, when unlikely to win, one can merely decide to not lose. Even online Scrabble offers a forfeit when…
It’s not hard to find people who’ll tell you they hate Shane Watson. Our favourite activity after watching sport is hating the people we’re…
I saw something very unfamiliar today. It was an utterly enjoyable day at the cricket for an Australian fan, as Shane Watson took the…
Like Nemo, Otis, or whichever Milo didn't drown in the waterfall scene, Chris Rogers has found his way home. Like a Depression-era grifter with…
As if to taunt us, an hour after stumps long rays of sunlight are slanting through cloud into The Roar’s corner of Old Trafford.…
It has taken ten of them, but finally Australia has won a day of Test cricket – and with the bat, no less. Yes,…
While most Australian reports will be lamenting an embarrassing display in the Lord’s defeat, it’s hard to resist the euphoria in London. The only…
On my first visit to England, it's been fascinating to finally come in contact with a culture that has so strongly informed my own.…
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." And so they will. Pity Michael Clarke in his team's best Test…
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." And so they will. Pity Michael Clarke in his team's best Test…
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." And so they will. Pity Michael Clarke in his team's best Test…
If Fawad Ahmed debuts in this Ashes series, he’ll be celebrated as the hero of a tremendous story. If he’d come to Australia by…
If Fawad Ahmed debuts in this Ashes series, he’ll be celebrated as the hero of a tremendous story. If he’d come to Australia by…
If Fawad Ahmed debuts in this Ashes series, he’ll be celebrated as the hero of a tremendous story. If he’d come to Australia by…
Enter Steve Smith with a white tiger. Only days ago I was in Nottingham, asking Australian cricket for surprises. Into the Lord's Test, it's…
After a long couple of weeks trekking across the United Kingdom, Geoff and Cam finally found themselves at Lord's, the fabled home of cricket…
It's hard to know how to respond after a match like that. The nervous tension, expectation, hope and disbelief that have built over several…
High on Oxford's walls, the English summer coaxes purple flowers from the face of ancient stone. In this Test's unlikely environment, Australia's hopes have…
There are days in cricket that are magical. Sometimes, in a world of repetition, you are still able to see things that have never…
As first day of this Ashes series came to close, it had all been about surprises. Even arriving in Nottingham for the first time,…
Until we stepped into the press box, Trent Bridge had existed only in the imagination, a name in television fantasy. Abruptly, messianic, it had…
Any Australian sporting enthusiast would love to go on an Ashes tour, but it remains impossible for most. So we decided to do it…
As a kid, I never trusted fairy-tale endings. After the euphoria of Ashton Agar’s Little Golden Book special, the third day at Trent Bridge…
As a kid, I never trusted fairy-tale endings. After the euphoria of Ashton Agar’s Little Golden Book special, the third day at Trent Bridge…
As a kid, I never trusted fairy-tale endings. After the euphoria of Ashton Agar’s Little Golden Book special, the third day at Trent Bridge…
It’s late, it’s warm, and the entire England cricket team is sitting in the middle of The Oval wearing whites with a guitar and…
2013
Geoff,
this will sound strange, but listen up.
Over here in little old England, we have a radio station calle…(more)