Christian Ryan

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

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

Channelling Dennis

Could we have a little less politeness and a little more "stupid emotion" from Mitchell Johnson?

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

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

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

A tale of two makeshift men

Not until his 307th first-class innings was Simon Katich asked to turn himself into an opening batsman

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

Audacity and ambiguity

Forty-three, which is the number of runs Kevin Pietersen scored today in Brisbane , is roughly par

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

If it rains…

In Brisbane, precipitation changes everything

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

To the pickets, with love

Batting is a business of quandaries and possibilities

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

Standing in the rain

In a hilly suburb of Adelaide, on a morning so still that even the crows must have been sleeping in, Andrew Hilditch decided to catch a bus to the solicitors’ office where he worked

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

Modern tourists miss going bush

Few travelling English cricketers have skirted the continent from west to south quite so contentedly as Andrew Strauss and his men this week

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

The Club with No Ears

What are you supposed to do when somebody falls out of love with you

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

Eleven Graemes in a Dressing Room

In keeping with the So You Think You Can Select spirit of the times, I give you this: an XI of Graemes (and Grahams).

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

Two Men in a Brewery

With a cautious nod and eyes wide open with suspicion he shuffled into the room, not like Garry Sobers or Dick Diver or the Great Gatsby but like the man he actually was, a man with a serious job at a brewery

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

Hussey searching for form of relaxation

Future fans and boffins might well dwell on the day, yesterday, that Ricky Ponting added this interesting yet eerie nugget to the collective cricketing wisdom

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

The hollow words of Andrew Strauss

You knew another Ashes summer was upon us when England’s captain Andrew Strauss, in a moment of children-pushing-toy-submarines-round-a-bathtub inanity, said that for ten weeks and five Test matches two cricket sides would be “at war”

25-Feb-2013•Christian Ryan

Unknown knowns at Limestone Exit

Ricky Ponting's departure can't have been the dream script people make it out to be, but at least he controlled his own destiny

04-Dec-2012•Christian Ryan

'Bryce-ee!'

McGain, he of one-Test fame, is well placed, perhaps, to see cricket's little disappointments for what they are

29-Mar-2012•Christian Ryan

The Lendl of cricket coaching

Has cricket missed out an obvious candidate?

22-Mar-2012•Christian Ryan

Eugenides and Adorno at the cricket

Is there any point in being sad about the Sheffield Shield's place in our culture today?

14-Mar-2012•Christian Ryan

Sachin of Benalla

They say no one ever remembers how you leave cricket, that the memory of you at your peak is what's everlasting. Is that true?

02-Mar-2012•Christian Ryan

That man's on the TV again

Television defines Ricky Ponting, but the more we see him on it, the less we know

23-Feb-2012•Christian Ryan

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