Sean Curtain runs his eyes over the spring form. Quick runners, slow turners and fast colts. And he wasn’t even at Flemington.
Shield Round 2 and Aust XI wrap: the Test team close to finalised and what of England’s depth?
November 11, 2013 by 7 Comments
Sheffield Shield goes viral
November 11, 2013 by 4 Comments
Brutus Mudcake likes to think outside the square. He reckons the Sheffield Shield broadcasts are better on the Internet than with a limited non-commercial ABC coverage.
Fan, Patron or Consumer?
November 10, 2013 by 11 Comments
Peter Baulderstone has been thinking and reading again (dangerous). Is bigger, faster, stronger also better?? Is the fan/patron/consumer experience better for all the cash we have thrown at players/owners/coaches/clubs over the past 50 years?
Uncertain Corridors: Gideon Haigh book launch
November 8, 2013 by 1 Comment
Gideon Haigh is the thinking man’s John Harms. John Harms is the drinking man’s Gideon Haigh. Why not join them both for the launch of Gideon’s new cricket book (I know I’ll need a new bookshelf too). Details attached. Gideon will also preview a new (or clean) shirt for the occasion.
First Ashes Test lead up: What the Indian tour and first Shield matches tell us
November 4, 2013 by 6 Comments
What to make of Australia’s bid to regain the Ashes after the completion of the first round of ‘red ball’ cricket and the culmination of the Indian one-day tour? Sean Curtain assesses the form of the contenders.
The Game of Cricket is Slowly Dying
November 3, 2013 by 119 Comments
Rulebook Ashwood, who spends his life around cricket clubs, explains why he believes the great game of cricket is slowly dying.
Adelaide and Suburban Cricket
November 1, 2013 by 5 Comments
Bernard Whimpress offers a quick glimpse of yesterday’s Sheffield Shield match at Glenelg Oval. The first time top class cricket in South Australia has been played elsewhere than Adelaide Oval in 110 years.
Sal’s Flemington Formguide
November 1, 2013 by 1 Comment
Sal Ciardulli gives Punter a whack, on the way through to helping punters sort out a mammoth Flemington racecard. “The winners are well concealed” (racing cliché #426) but Sal has been doing a lot of digging to find them for you.
Thank you, Cricketing Gods
October 31, 2013 by 16 Comments
The feel good story of the week. Darren “Smokie” Dawson fulfils two childhood’s dreams in the one day.
Ryobi Cup: Final and Season Review
October 30, 2013 by 8 Comments
Our man at the Test, Luke Reynolds, gives a typical thorough and thoughtful summary of the Final of the 50 Over domestic One-Day competition. Who has the runs on the board to make Stuart quake in his boots?
Kane Richardson: does he have Nugget’s polish?
October 27, 2013 by 6 Comments
Peter Argent thinks there is a hint of Keith “Nugget” Miller’s polish about promising young South Australian all-rounder Kane Richardson. Peter’s stunning photo captures the elegance and balance of a classic drive. And he’s wearing whites!
Test cricket preparation: Ashes encounter on the doorstep (or wherefore art thou, everybody?)
October 21, 2013 by 9 Comments
What has Cricket Australia been thinking? It’s been difficult to understand which hemisphere everybody is in, let alone how form is shaping up. David Wilson takes a look at the preparation of the national Test squad and finds only a forget-a-thon of tiddly-winks.
Waiting to go into bat
October 21, 2013 by 11 Comments
Luke Ridgewell’s cricket report is the funniest and truest thing you will read this week. No wonder Woody Allen loves baseball. Cricket, baseball and neurosis are synonymous.
Pleasures of club cricket in PNG
October 17, 2013 by 9 Comments
A ripper yarn from David Lloyd about his role in reviving club cricket in Madang on the north coast of PNG. A top effort at any age, but at 60 DL shows there is still hope of a Test call-up for all of us.
It’s true: Cricket Australia make a good decision
October 17, 2013 by 5 Comments
Hold onto your hats: Smokie Dawson takes time out from bagging Cricket Australia to admit that, just this once, he might have been wrong. (But before you get too carried away, what about the fixturing and the commentary?)
Radio Days
October 14, 2013 by 12 Comments
Two hanky alert for men over 40. Vin Maskell exquisitely paints the word pictures of our lives, shaped by the brush strokes of ABC radio commentary. Does Alan McGilvray have a twitter feed?
(I’m Not) Interested in Ryobi
October 12, 2013 by 17 Comments
Luke Reynolds – Australia’s greatest cricket tragic since the Right Hon John Winston Howard Esq – protests that he’s not interested in the Ryobi Cup. I don’t believe him, but he’s bloody funny anyway.
It’s Guineas Day – but we are still trading places!
October 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
Sal Ciardulli sorts out the AFL trade week; cricket broadcast rights; decision referral system; and all the big group races at Caulfield and Randwick. If he lands the Melbourne quaddie, Barrack Obama is flying him to Washington DC to sort out the US budget impasse and resolve the Syrian civil war.
Ryobi Cup Week 1
October 9, 2013 by 15 Comments
Luke Reynolds summarises the first week’s games in the Ryobi Cup. More in sorrow than in anger, Luke faithfully reports the progress of our once great summer game.
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