Matt Cleary

MAY 17, 2013

A cricket bucket list

Going on a tour, writing a match report, talking to Big Merv... try doing some of these things before you meet your maker

Play on the beach © Getty Images

Enlarge

MAY 10, 2013

When AB and Thommo nearly pulled off a Melbourne heist

One December afternoon in 1982, Allan Border found an ally in the form of No. 11 Jeff Thomson and they almost pulled off the greatest last-wicket chase in history

MAY 03, 2013

What Richards and Gilchrist did for modern batting

Their styles were completely different but the result was always the same: quick runs and defeated bowlers

APRIL 25, 2013

My Australian XI for the Ashes

The squad that has been selected isn't bad at all. The quicks could trouble batsmen, and someone like Usman Khawaja needs just one good score to start a chain of them

APRIL 20, 2013

How to attract more women to cricket

Show them a good time through the sidelights, and if they enjoy themselves they may come back for more

APRIL 12, 2013

Cricket's greatest bearded XI

And so, for no reason, cricket's greatest beard XI

APRIL 06, 2013

Seemingly because he used to be a rugby player, Cricket Australia's General Manager Team Performance has been on the receiving end of some unfair criticism. The team is not performing highly but that is not (yet) Pat Howard's fault

MARCH 28, 2013

One big muddle, 23 million solutions

Once upon a time, selecting the Australia Test XI was a straightforward business but, nowadays, you could ask everyone in the country and get an entirely different team from each of the them. Here's mine

MARCH 21, 2013

Deciphering the myths of sledging

From Steve Waugh telling Herschelle Gibbs he's dropped the World Cup to Ian Healy's "Mars Bar" sledge, many infamous cricket yarns have taken on lives of their own - to the point that some seem to have been completely fabricated

MARCH 15, 2013

The most bizarre of punishments

Dear sweet Superman, Moses and Mr Lillee, is this fair dinkum? Have they really stood down four blokes because they didn't do an assignment? From the Australian Test team? A team down 0-2 in a four-Test series in India?

MARCH 08, 2013

The worst Australians since the last lot

Australia need to make changes to the team of lumberjacks that have chopped themselves down in India - but those yukking it up in England should know that we've seen worse and haven't given up on the Ashes yet

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

What the Australians think of Sachin

When Sachin Tendulkar walks out to bat on cricket grounds in India, each one erupts like Old Trafford when Wayne Rooney's scored the winner

PREVIOUS SHOWING 1 - 12

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Matt Cleary
Matt Cleary reckons he watched more of the 1978-79 Ashes series than any eight-year-old. Despite this punishment - Geoff Boycott batting for days - Cleary was hooked. As a journalist he's written about sport, travel, beer, wine, swimming with stingrays in the Alice waters of Bora Bora, and touring Australia on a four-month lap, playing golf. Yet he counts doing ball-by-ball commentary for ESPNcricinfo as the most fun he's had with a keyboard. He writes for several of Australia's sports and travel magazines, notably Inside Sport, Inside Cricket, Golf Australia and Rugby League Week. @JournoMatCleary

All articles by this writer

Keywords

Tweets from @ESPNcricinfo/the-cordon-on-twitter

THE CORDON HOME

BLOGS ARCHIVES