Cricket

Will Big Bash Save Australian Cricket?

At the start of this Australian Summer Cricket Australia admitted that the television ratings had fallen by approximately a quarter over the past decade, and that television audiences for the one day game were at an all time low. They

King Kallis

Twenty to thirty years ago debate raged as to who was the greatest all rounder in test cricket. Many felt that Ian Botham was the man, others Kapil Dev or Imran Khan, some went for New Zealand’s Richard Hadlee. Sir

A Cricketer, and a Man to Be Proud Of

Hats off to Usman Khawaja in more ways than one. First of all he has shown that he is not only a cricketing talent that Australians are likely to enjoy at test match level for a number of years, but

Admit Your Mistakes

Back in August we wrote on this website that if England brought Jimmy Anderson out to Australia it would be a big mistake (Anderson to Swing in Australia?) Captain Andrew Strauss showed his faith in Anderson, and we questioned whether

Who Do You Belong To?

Australian sports fans frequently ridicule their English counterparts about the fact that many of their international sportsmen come from other parts of the Commonwealth. They regularly forget how they too have adopted sporting heroes, Kepler Wessels (South Africa), Kostya Tszyu