Daniel Brettig

Why corruption is a problem too large for cricket to solve itself

The legalisation of cricket betting in India would go a long way towards reducing the likelihood of fixing, but will that happen anytime soon?

15-Jun-2018•Daniel Brettig

The story behind the story of the Packer affair

Forty years on, a look at how Gideon Haigh's history of the rupture set a benchmark

05-May-2018•Daniel Brettig

James Sutherland's greatest challenge?

The Cricket Australia CEO has long been a model of pragmatic leadership, but the ongoing pay dispute will stretch his ability to find a compromise

28-Jun-2017•Daniel Brettig

Ditch your proposals and start again

Cricket Australia and the players' association are both rigidly holding on to their world views, without actually negotiating at all

02-Jun-2017•Daniel Brettig

Cricket Australia's good business methods not always good sport

Learnings from industrial relations in the corporate world may not be helping Cricket Australia as much as its directors seem to think

22-May-2017•Daniel Brettig

How Australia turned around on sponsorship by alcohol brands

Cricket Australia's latest beer sponsorship will not feature any branding on players' uniforms, a change emblematic of the increasingly fraught relationship between alcohol and sport

20-Apr-2017•Daniel Brettig

How CA and the players' association are drifting antagonistically apart

The board no longer seems to consider the ACA a party worth engaging with in contractual negotiations

20-Dec-2016•Daniel Brettig

Test or T20? The choice that changes cricket

Australia's clash of Twenty20 and Test fixtures, with players forced to choose between them, will come to be seen as a tipping point for the international game

22-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Australia have an identity problem

Playing the "Australian way", verbally and tactically, has yielded mixed results. And it does not help that the snarl of the Waugh-era team does not sit naturally on Steve Smith's men

06-Oct-2016•Daniel Brettig

Australia's happy hunting ground

Why do Australia, so often poor in Asia, never seem to lose in Sri Lanka? Here are four possible reasons

24-Jul-2016•Daniel Brettig

Cricket makes an effort to bind together

On display at the ICC's annual conference in Edinburgh will be efforts to preserve the health of the bilateral international game in rapidly changing times

28-Jun-2016•Daniel Brettig

Bravo's band changing rules of international game

If the premier West Indies cricketers are to be solely known for their T20 skills, will the regional Test side remain relevant anymore?

06-Apr-2016•Daniel Brettig

A pitch destroyed, a club renewed

Melbourne's Kingsville Baptist CC had their pitch vandalised ahead of a vital game. Their graceful response has won many admirers for a club that reflects the changing face of Australian cricket

24-Mar-2016•Daniel Brettig

Australia's reversal of fortune

For years, they were seen as being slow on the ball on reverse swing. Not so in the New Zealand series

26-Feb-2016•Daniel Brettig

Holder and de Villiers have warned us

When two Test captains are sending similar messages about the direction of the game, cricket must know it has a problem on its hands

15-Jan-2016•Daniel Brettig

Why we need a Test championship series

The idea of a battle for the world No. 1 spot in the top format may have been shelved, but its absence is sorely felt

20-Nov-2015•Daniel Brettig

Australia's board and player association need to talk

The vast pay disparity between the men and women cricketers is just one issue that could be addressed if there was a more fruitful relationship between CA and the players' body

27-Oct-2015•Daniel Brettig

How not to run a cricket ground

In contrast to its thrilling on-field narrative, the administrative story of the WACA is one of mismanagement and confused vision

10-Sep-2015•Daniel Brettig

Clarke's a career ever so near to greatness

Michael Clarke will be remembered as a great cricketer and as a fascinating, occasionally infuriating, but forever driven man

19-Aug-2015•Daniel Brettig

The plot thickens for world cricket

The game is undoubtedly entering a new period of volatility, as positions of power and influence start to shift, either by accident, design or a little of both

01-May-2015•Daniel Brettig

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