Australia managed to out-class England in a blockbuster World Cup clash at Lord’s, as Sean Mortell reviews the encounter and what Australia got right.
2019 Cricket World Cup – Australia v England: An incomplete yet resounding victory
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2019 Cricket World Cup – Australia v Bangladesh: Slowly coming together
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Sean Mortell reviews another steady Australian win, as he is satisfied that the team’s balance is slowly improving throughout the tournament
2019 Cricket World Cup – Australia v Sri Lanka: Not pretty, but it does the trick
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Australia continued their World Cup campaign with another imperfect win against Sri Lanka, as Sean Mortell details the problems the Aussies need to fix if they are to go deep into the tournament
2019 Cricket World Cup – Australia v Pakistan: Battling hard, doing enough
June 17, 2019 by 1 Comment
The mecurial Pakistanis have been hard to pick and Australia caught them on a middling day writes Sean Mortell.
2019 Cricket World Cup – Australia v India: Simply out-classed
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Australia faced their first set back in the 2019 Cricket World Cup against India last Sunday night. Sean Mortell wonders whether it was a necessary reality check.
2019 Cricket World Cup – Australia v West Indies: Restoking old rivalries
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Sean Mortell reviews Australia’s last gasp win in their second match of the 2019 cricket World Cup against the dangerous West Indies.
2019 Cricket World Cup – Australia v Afghanistan: A nerve-settling start
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As Australia looks to its game against the West Indies, Sean Mortell reviews their opening win over Afghanistan.
Almanac Book Review: Ruling The World, The Story of the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
May 27, 2019 by 18 Comments
Ahead of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Luke Reynolds reviews “Ruling the World, The Story of the 1992 World Cup” by Jonathan Northall, from a time when one-day cricket really did rule the world.
Winter cricket
May 7, 2019 by 3 Comments
The old cricketers’ winter-only fitness-maintaining pastime of footy has morphed into the season-defying juggernaut that is the AFL, but as John Gascoigne shares, it’s far from a one-way process, with winter cricket more popular than ever before.
Book Review – Golden Boy by Christian Ryan: When dreams come true
May 1, 2019 by 4 Comments
To mark the occasion of Christian Ryan’s ‘Golden Boy’ being declared Wisden’s best-ever cricket book, Les Everett reprises his insightful review of that book. (Kim Hughes was someone Les had personal experience of – Ed).
Almanac Cricket: “Golden Boy” is Wisden’s best ever cricket book
May 1, 2019 by 8 Comments
Christian Ryan’s Golden Boy: ‘Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket’ has been declared the best cricket book ever written by a Wisden panel. An outstanding achievement. What do you think of the shortlisted books?
Almanac Reading – The ugly Australian: evolution of a cricket species (from “The Cricket Monthly”)
April 30, 2019 by 4 Comments
From “The Cricket Monthly” last week; in which Jarrod Kimber explores the traditions and ways of Australian cricket; from the suburbs to the international arena. [Do your experiences support these views? – Ed].
The All-Rounder, the Import, and the Coach who stayed – KB Hill
April 18, 2019 by 1 Comment
KB Hill goes back a hundred years and more to bring us stories about the talented, the ‘colourful’ and the committed. The Wangaratta Football Club certainly went through some interesting times back then.
Almanac Cricket: Pomborneit Cricket Club March Review
April 11, 2019 by 5 Comments
The final 2018/19 season review from the Pomborneit Cricket Club is a joyous one as the Bulls tasted premiership success in the South West Cricket Association Division 1 Grand Final. [A huge season’s effort of reporting by premiership player Luke Reynolds that had us all cheering gopombobulls! Ed.]
Adelaide Oval in the Eighties: Rodney Hogg, Adidas Romes and Mondo Rock
April 5, 2019 by 11 Comments
‘Our world was still wonderfully small, and for a few days every summer Adelaide Oval was at its centre.’ Mickey Randall revisits a well spent youth where heaven was a day out at the cricket for the lads from Kapunda.
‘And now the time has come…..’ – KB Hill
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KB Hill takes us back through the decades as he recounts famous cricket Grand Finals in the Wangaratta District Cricket Association.
The ‘Mankad’: conduct unbecoming?
March 26, 2019 by 15 Comments
What a lousy way to be dismissed! Ravi Ashwin “Mankads” Jos Buttler in IPL overshadowing Steve Smith’s return to international cricket. What do you think of Ashwin’s actions? [This new discussion is followed by Dave Brown’s piece on the issue from 2016 – Ed)
Almanac Cricket – Why Moises Henriques may be an Ashes smokey
March 14, 2019 by 7 Comments
Moises Henriques for the 2019 Ashes Squad? Dan thinks he’s a chance, what do you think?
Almanac Cricket: Pomborneit Cricket Club February Review
March 9, 2019 by 9 Comments
As the Division 1 Bulls prepare to take on Bookaar in today’s South West Cricket Association semi-final, catch up on all the latest at the club in the Pomborneit CC February review.
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