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Former Australia captain, now a cricket commentator and columnist
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Vulnerable, but where's the challenge?

May 27, 2007: Even when Hayden and Gilchrist are gone in two years' time, there aren't enough teams in sight to challenge the Australian supremacy

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Revamp needed at the top

May 13, 2007: It's about time the players asserted more control over the game, lost in a maze of politicking and power-broking dead ends

The 2007 World Cup is a PR disaster

Apr 13, 2007: The game is like a tree; if you keep the trunk and the roots healthy the branches will take care of themselves

I doubt if Greg will feel fulfilled

Apr 5, 2007: Greg Chappell was a perfectionist who sought to bring those standards to Indian cricket and his exit leaves a system that isn't yet complete

An Anzac battle for the World Cup

Mar 30, 2007: As Australia batter their way through the World Cup it is only New Zealand that look like coming up with some resistance against the world champions

Look into that mirror, Sachin

Mar 30, 2007: If Sachin Tendulkar is playing to eke out a career, he is wasting his time and should retire immediately

Most open World Cup

Mar 4, 2007: Diverse and unpredictable conditions, coupled with a wide field and a huge time span, make it difficult to pick favourites

Australia must find answers quickly

Feb 19, 2007: Australia have gone from raging favourites to suffering a case of raging World Cup fever in the space of three weeks

The World Cup or the Well Cup?

Feb 16, 2007: The World Cup might just be won by the team who has 11 men standing by the final

A whole new ball game

Feb 4, 2007: The colour television was invented around the same time as the World Cup of 1975. The limited-overs game has seen as much change as the modes of entertainment

The dark side of the chatter

Jan 19, 2007: Cricket can't bring an end to abusive behaviour; it is a public problem. However, cricket can do more to ensure its own house is in order

The long and the short of it

Jan 5, 2007: By the last Test of the Ashes, the difference between the two teams was so great one wondered how Australia ever conspired to lose in 2005

Unchallenged champions

Dec 23, 2006: Warne and McGrath have succeeded partly due to their own skills and partly their opponents' inability to put up any fight

Mind over matter

Dec 21, 2006: No cricketer is irreplaceable, but Shane Warne comes mighty close

The difference between England and Australia

Dec 10, 2006: The final day of the second Ashes Test proved that the Australian way of playing is superior to the English

Flawed strategy has England in a spin

Nov 26, 2006: England's worst fears were exposed at the Gabba when the ball didn't swing and they were shown to have little else in the way of strategy

Curse of the one-sided final

Nov 12, 2006: It's time opposition teams learnt how to compete with Australia in tournament finals

The short route

Oct 29, 2006: Why bouncers are a welcome change in a batsman-dominated game

Packing a six-shooter

Oct 14, 2006: What it takes for a team to win a major tournament like the Champions Trophy

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    Fixing? It's people like us doing it

Ed Hawkins: It's convenient to blame the underworld for every instance of fixing, but it's ordinary punters behind many of them

    The perils of scoffing at failure

Rob Steen: Excessive success can destroy inhibition, and hence the capacity for shame

New Zealand shaken and stirred

Andrew Alderson: The second-innings collapse at Lord's has revived concerns about New Zealand's top order

    'The most complete fast bowler I've seen'

Allan Donald on one of the bowlers he found intimidating: the relentless Wasim Akram

The hollow feeling of a Monday morning

Paul Ford: New Zealand offered a glimmer of hope to their fans at Lord's, only to snatch it back and smash it to pieces on day four

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Pollard sledges Watson, Dravid is angry

Plays of the day from the IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai

A talent that didn't know its own worth

Sreesanth wasn't the most likeable team-mate or opponent, but he had skill beyond doubt, which we might have seen the last of

Him against the world

Even at the height of his success with the national side, Sreesanth was a lonely cricketer who felt hard done by

A time for anger, a time for action

Out of the shattered lives of three young men caught up in allegations of fraud, newer and stronger players must emerge

Another season in the bottom half

With some of their big names stumbling this season, Kings XI Punjab were rarely serious contenders for a playoff place

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