Caught (Dropped!) In The Memory
Jan 7, 2011 So ends another Ashes summer
The Hangman’s Way
Jan 6, 2011 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
Fawlty Hours
Jan 5, 2011 Let us begin by listing the signs of promising improvement seen in the Australian cricket team today
Pupwatch
Jan 4, 2011 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
Sweet Fifteen
Jan 3, 2011 He awoke a Test cricketer, and for the rest of the day being awake felt dreamier than the deepest sleep
The Ballad of Nugget and Krystyna
Dec 30, 2010 Speaking of a sick-in-the-gut feeling, that’s when it hit me, a creeping unease
That old greyhound squint
Dec 28, 2010 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
Letting go
Dec 27, 2010 The final week of the fourth fastest-scoring year in Test history – 3.34 runs an over, and counting – is upon us
Gone fishing
Dec 26, 2010 “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
The (woman's) style is the man
Dec 19, 2010 “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.