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JANUARY 06, 2011
The Hangman’s Way
: At six past midday on Wednesday, Alastair Cook got a ball that was neither wide nor full and he greeted it like a stork helping itself to water
JANUARY 05, 2011
Fawlty Hours
: Let us begin by listing the signs of promising improvement seen in the Australian cricket team today
JANUARY 04, 2011
Pupwatch
: The world moves in apt and mysterious ways, and so it was that on Michael Clarke’s first afternoon as Australia’s captain in the field David Hasselhoff was sitting in the crowd
JANUARY 03, 2011
Sweet Fifteen
: He awoke a Test cricketer, and for the rest of the day being awake felt dreamier than the deepest sleep
DECEMBER 30, 2010
The Ballad of Nugget and Krystyna
: Speaking of a sick-in-the-gut feeling, that’s when it hit me, a creeping unease
DECEMBER 28, 2010
That old greyhound squint
: When Ricky Ponting wakes up on Test match morning, he is not the type to help himself to muesli and a Swisse Men’s Ultivite pill only to spend the next half-hour wondering whether he should have gone for a couple of bananas instead
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Letting go
: The final week of the fourth fastest-scoring year in Test history – 3.34 runs an over, and counting – is upon us
DECEMBER 26, 2010
Gone fishing
: “In a pond with no fish,” goes an old Russian saying, “a crab is a fish.” Twenty-first century Australian cricket throws up numerous variations on this
DECEMBER 19, 2010
The (woman's) style is the man
: “Each profession begets its particular style of play,” wrote that master back-of-a-postcard essayist RC Robertson-Glasgow, in the days when cricketers had day jobs.
DECEMBER 17, 2010
The Smith experiment
: One high-wired June afternoon in 1986, Kapil Dev clubbed a six into the grandstand to win a Test match at Lord’s and Mike Gatting was minutes later being steered into the tiny physiotherapist’s room
DECEMBER 09, 2010
A time for sparrow’s feet
: People say baggy green caps are never given away lightly
DECEMBER 06, 2010
Waltzing, not wilting
: In 1973 – a year when the Ashes were technically in England’s possession, but not for long – Mary Gates migrated to Australia with her husband and four children
DECEMBER 04, 2010
The Lost Art of Intercepting
: Give me a time machine and a choice – one match, one moment, one ball – and I’d say take me to Old Trafford, mid-afternoon, on the 26th day of July in 1902
DECEMBER 03, 2010
Tyson, Hadlee, Holding … Jimmy?
: Jimmy Anderson’s second delivery to Michael Clarke today swung 11 centimetres, the mere width of a golf hole
DECEMBER 01, 2010
Mystery on Haddin's head
: An hour wafted by on Monday before Xavier Doherty got a bowl – crazy, seeing as how one of the morning’s big intrigues promised to be the sight of Australia’s new spinner operating on a last-day pitch with cracks in it
NOVEMBER 28, 2010
Channelling Dennis
: Could we have a little less politeness and a little more "stupid emotion" from Mitchell Johnson?
NOVEMBER 27, 2010
The hour that mattered
: Had we been playing in a log-fenced park up the road, and not in a cauldron of concrete and plastic, the seagulls would have been spooked and the people pushing their prams around the oval mystified
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