Matches (12)

WPL (1)

Vijay Hazare Trophy (1)

BPL (2)

SA20 (1)

BBL (1)

Men's Under-19 World Cup (3)

Super Smash (1)

Hong Kong All Stars (2)

Russell Jackson

The other rebels

Not many remember the International Wanderers teams who visited apartheid South Africa to play cricket

07-Jun-2014•Russell Jackson

The slap we knew would come

The news of widespread fixing in T20 cricket feels like a slap in the face even for those of us who had secretly thought that such days were in the offing

22-May-2014•Russell Jackson

Australia's wicketkeeper dilemma

Who's to fill Haddin's shoes when the time comes? There's no easy answer

09-May-2014•Russell Jackson

The high-wire act of modern coaching

While the media and fans are quick to blame the coach when everything is going wrong, there is little or no credit attributed to him when success does come

25-Apr-2014•Russell Jackson

Mimicking our heroes

Batting stance, bowling run-up, shuffling, adjusting equipment - there's something about cricketers' idiosyncrasies that makes us want to copy them

11-Apr-2014•Russell Jackson

Missing Pakistan

How has the team fallen off the sporting map so dramatically in a cricket-literate country like Australia?

28-Mar-2014•Russell Jackson

Thinking pink

The jury's still out on the pros and cons of lighter-coloured balls and how they may or may not work in day-night Test cricket

14-Mar-2014•Russell Jackson

Warne v Cullinan revisited

Mind games were as much a part of Warne's armoury as the flipper in the mid-1990s, and his battle with one South African batsman captured the imagination

28-Feb-2014•Russell Jackson

The comfort Haddin brings

A year ago if he had announced his retirement, it would have raised few eyebrows; had he done so after the latest Ashes, it would have been wrenching

12-Feb-2014•Russell Jackson

In praise of Margaret Hughes

The first woman to write to a high standard on the game was treated a bit like a circus freak when she appeared on the scene

30-Jan-2014•Russell Jackson

How does one measure T20 proficiency?

The traditional data range of cricket statistics is far too narrow and its focus sometimes irrelevant to the requirements of the shortest format

16-Jan-2014•Russell Jackson

What I read in 2013

There's a surge for immediacy in the modern media but sports books, especially cricket ones, help you slow down

03-Jan-2014•Russell Jackson

Project Snow and what might have been

Cricket nearly reached an impasse in the mid-1990s and there was a possibility the game would split into two factions

19-Dec-2013•Russell Jackson

The ultimate cricket librarian

Rob Moody's obsession with recording matches in Australia and collecting archive footage has led to him becoming a folk hero to cricket lovers across the world

06-Dec-2013•Russell Jackson

The summer game v the beautiful game

Though Cricket Australia is aggressively working to engage new and old fans in the game, it cannot take lightly the competition it now faces from soccer

03-Dec-2013•Russell Jackson

The little cricket magazine that endured

The ABC Cricket Book was a faithful companion to generations of Australian kids growing up with the game

20-Nov-2013•Russell Jackson

Reeling from the Sharmageddon

Just when you thought you were bored of all the ODIs, Australia and India served up an utterly bonkers match in Bangalore

08-Nov-2013•Russell Jackson

Shane Watson and the art of self-analysis

The insularity of his approach might not necessarily mark him out as the most likeable cricketer but it makes him an endlessly interesting one

25-Oct-2013•Russell Jackson

What's happening to Australia's cricket grounds?

Local venues taught kids to love cricket, but they're vanishing fast, victims of development and commerce

11-Oct-2013•Russell Jackson

What do they know of cliches...

Cricket clichés find their most obvious and oft-parodied home in commentary boxes but we're all guilty of them from time to time

27-Sep-2013•Russell Jackson

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