November, 2009

Johnson, Hilfenhaus and Siddle chipped in with 11 wickets in the first test victory over the Windies. Knowing that fact alone, Australia should have lost,b ut, and perhaps this has to do with the inept state of the opposition, Australia still won by an innings and change. The other 9 wickets were picked up by [...]

Australia Would be happy with their position, haven’t done anything special in this match, but would have to start chugging whisky at the breaks to lose from here. West Indies Kept trying with the ball, came out fighting with the bat, but then lost four quick wickets and it all just faded away. Chris Gayle’s [...]

Australia Had their professional hats on. Other than Katich everyone looked a little scratchy, but there are mouths to feed, so they still got the job done. They would have hoped for better. West Indies Got to bowl on a wicket that gave them some assistance and did well at times. At the end of [...]

Phil Hughes has never gone out to a short ball off his gloves or any real variation of the ball that is his weakness at test match cricket. Shane Watson has gone out LBW 6 out of his last 7 test innings, and has also gone out after a break 4 times during that period. [...]

It is the time of year when fans of Australian Football are starting to miss their regular footy fix. The long season of saturation media coverage, along with tipping competitions and maintaining fantasy teams means that most are happy enough when October rolls around and they can stop thinking about footy. It is a relief [...]

Ed Cowan told twitter it came out of the footmarks and gave him wood. Jimmy Maxwell said it hit a crack and was a work in progress. Terry Jenner informed Australia it was chucking and against the law in his book. And AGB questions if the selectors will pick someone who bowls it. All of [...]

True story. He was found drenched in blood underneath a pile of 2784 news articles about the end of his career/life. Other than some paper cuts, and a sore elbow from trying to fight his way out, he is ok. He may even be fit enough to bowl again just after Christmas, if he doesn’t [...]

Begorrah. Talk about the luck of the Irish. Ireland’s football team was cruelly denied a place at next year’s World Cup in South Africa due to a blatant piece of cheating from the French this morning. In an act of grand larceny, ex-Arsenal striker Thierry Henry – currently at Spanish giants Barcelona – handballed twice [...]

The long-awaited Crawford Review of Australian Sport has finally been released (read it here) and it’s causing quite a stir in this sports-mad country of ours. As Bernard Keane reported in yesterday’s Crikey Daily Mail: [The report] has in effect called the bluff of successive Australian governments and proposed a re-weighting of sports funding away [...]