With the revolving door at Cricket Australia spinning ever faster, John Butler assesses the legacies of those departed, or soon to depart.
The Spirit of Cricket
March 29, 2018 by 7 Comments
‘For a long time, I’ve been wondering about the ‘Spirit of Cricket’. We sometimes think of cricket as having two components, its Laws and its Spirit, something like a person having a body as well as a soul.’
Ashes Preview: Ashes Before the Fire?
November 22, 2017 by 14 Comments
Test cricket is back, and even if, according to John Butler, two mediocre teams face off in a contest always laden with historic baggage, it is still important to the psyche of both nations. The end result will have huge consequence to the careers of many, both on and off the field reports John.
Almanac Cricket: Disarray by design
November 23, 2016 by 13 Comments
John Butler feels that Australian Cricket’s foundations aren’t what they once were, this summer needs to regain a sense of balance.
Almanac Cricket: Blind Cricket and the folly of assumptions
September 17, 2015 by 1 Comment
A great extract from a speech given by former Sight Impaired Australian Cricketer, Graeme Innes, at the launch of the All Abilities championships held in the Melbourne Cricket Club’s famed Long Room. Assumptions and discrimination hold so many of us back; “we are limited by the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
“I don’t mind the one-dayers”
December 13, 2012 by 18 Comments
“I don’t mind the one-dayers” is hands down the most irritating thing anyone can say to Peter Zitterschlager
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