For more than a hundred years the number three position in the batting order in any cricket team has been the most important. The…
For more than a hundred years the number three position in the batting order in any cricket team has been the most important. The…
Last Sunday, I was asked the question: "After Don Bradman, who are your top 10 Australians in order after nearly 50 years covering sport?"…
Whoa, man. If there is one guy I would not like to be right now, it is Tim Bradley. He's the American boxer slated…
The Australian summer of 1970/71 tends to be more enjoyable in retrospect than it was in the actual fabric of living it. But I…
In the aftermath of Sachin Tendulkar's eventual achievement of 100 test/one-day centuries some discussion has turned to the great Sir Donald Bradman and Tendulkar's…
The latest memorabilia being flogged by Channel 9 is a picture frame containing photos and brief pen-portraits of the six Australian batsmen to have…
With Sachin Tendulkar tantilisingly close to a 100 international centuries which will never be matched, there's a growing band of cricket scribes, and cricket-lovers,…
I was watching highlights of the 1977 Centenary Test between Australia and England on Fox Sports recently, and I came up with an idea.…
India's little master Sachin Tendulkar, not Sir Donald Bradman, is the greatest Test batsman who ever lived, a Gold Coast academic claims. A brave…
Much media attention has focused on the ever-controversial Mankad rule this week, following Tuesday's match between Sri Lanka and India. Newspapers have been divided…
Much media attention has focused on the ever-controversial Mankad rule this week, following Tuesday's match between Sri Lanka and India. Newspapers have been divided…
Much media attention has focused on the ever-controversial Mankad rule this week, following Tuesday's match between Sri Lanka and India. Newspapers have been divided…
Dave Brown was known as “the Don Bradman of Rugby League", and the A-League needs their own stories to etch the competition into history…
Dave Brown was known as “the Don Bradman of Rugby League", and the A-League needs their own stories to etch the competition into history…
Dave Brown was known as “the Don Bradman of Rugby League", and the A-League needs their own stories to etch the competition into history…
Watching the emotional Ulsterman, Darren Clarke, hold aloft the coveted British Open claret jug, reminded me of the Green and Gold Greats interview I…
[caption id="attachment_11792" caption="Tampa Bay Rays players celebrate after defeating the Boston Red Sox. AP Photo/Mike Carlson"][/caption] "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind…
Despite his reluctance to commit to a full year of competition in the 2011 world surfing championship tour, Kelly Slater’s victory in the Quiksilver…
[caption id="attachment_40673" width="300" caption="ICC World XI International Chairman of Selectors Sunil Gavaskar. AAP Image/Julian Smit"][/caption] David Lord’s post on Don Bradman being daylight ahead…
Last month it was Bradman or Tendulkar as the all-time great batsman. The flavour of the week now is who is the greatest all-rounder…
“The Bastards will never get me like that.” Ian Chappell has been taking aim at administrators from the day he learnt Bill Lawry had…
Last Wednesday Australia's ebullient wicket-keeper batsman Adam Gilchrist and India's prolific opening batsman Sunil Gavaskar of 1970s and 80s were made Sir Donald Bradman…
[caption id="attachment_3145" caption="Don Bradman AAP Photo/Mortlock Library of South Australia"][/caption] As far as I know, and I’m willing to be corrected on this point,…
Sachin Tendulkar's scintillating century against England in their World Cup clash in Bangalore overnight, will renew claims the Indian maestro is the greatest batsman…
Sachin Tendulkar's scintillating century against England in their World Cup clash in Bangalore overnight, will renew claims the Indian maestro is the greatest batsman…
Sachin Tendulkar's scintillating century against England in their World Cup clash in Bangalore overnight, will renew claims the Indian maestro is the greatest batsman…
For more than a hundred years the number three position in the batting order in any cricket team has been the most important. The…
2012
Unfortunately Hughes seems to have forgotten how he played South Africa when he first started.
Either that, or now t…(more)