Russell Jackson

Healing by putting your bat out

Touching tributes by strangers all over the world have helped immensely in recovering from the pain of Phillip Hughes' death

07-Dec-2014•Russell Jackson

Embracing Maxwell's unpredictability

Fans pop a vein when his ludicrous tactics fail, shrug when he succeeds. Either way, cricket's first bona fide troll is not about to change

13-Nov-2014•Russell Jackson

How boring is boring cricket?

Having graced the airwaves for more than four decades, he is a broadcasting institution on par with Benaud, despite not having played at senior level

31-Oct-2014•Russell Jackson

Jim Maxwell: Radio commentary's tireless doyen

Having graced the airwaves for more than four decades, he is a broadcasting institution on par with Benaud, despite not having played at senior level

17-Oct-2014•Russell Jackson

Cricket shirts: gotta love 'em

Cricket nerds love team shirts, especially ones from their childhood

02-Oct-2014•Russell Jackson

Johnson v McLaren: a tale of two blows

The South African allrounder had the misfortune of being in the line of fire twice this year

19-Sep-2014•Russell Jackson

The unquestioning loyalty of the sports nut

True sports fans are like Harley-Davidson loyalists. Poor marketing and tacky innovations will never turn them away from the game they love

05-Sep-2014•Russell Jackson

The Phillip Hughes debate never ends

He makes buckets of runs but cannot hold his place in the Test side. What needs to work for him going forward?

23-Aug-2014•Russell Jackson

Remembering Paul Melville

The dashing Victoria batsman was set to be a star for Australia when his life was tragically cut short at 21

08-Aug-2014•Russell Jackson

Commentary boxes need succession plans too

Channel Nine should work to maintain the standards that its best broadcasters - Benaud and Chappell - have set, rather than encourage a frat-house environment

05-Jul-2014•Russell Jackson

A Derbyshire fan in Melbourne

How books, magazines and live scorecard updates allowed an Australian teenager to keep track of county cricket in the 1990s

20-Jun-2014•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

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