December, 2009

By Juan Cote, QLD correspondent for GreenAndGoldRugby.com The gap between the ARU and its partners share of the SANZAR broadcast deal is set to widen from US$40m to US$100m, according to reports. The reason for this growing discrepancy is simple – Australian rugby has no third tier. The much awaited SANZAR broadcast deal post 2010 [...]

One day you are going to be in Sydney. And for whatever reason you are going to need a lawyer. When you arrive you’ll notice some cricket memorabilia in the foyer; you’ll spend a couple of minutes looking at it and wish that you were a rich lawyer who could afford signed cricket stuff. While [...]

Australia Tried to sit on the Windies and keep their total low. They did it well, and even picked up wickets. The Windies scored at less than 3 runs an over. The 8 wickets means that declaration isn’t the only option. West Indies Gayle made 143 out of the 261 runs scored. Without him Australia [...]

Enjoy Matt Gagger is editor of GreenAndGoldRugby.com

Australia Had the same problem they had at the Gabba, no one could make the big score and wickets kept falling regularly.  Hussey batted the into a real hole, and the Windies never let them out. West Indies Kemar Rocha and Sulieman Benn gave the Windies a chance in this game. They were generally on [...]

Australia Except for one hour, Australia had this day by the scruff of the neck. What an annoying hour though. West Indies Finally got their batting right, but their bowling was not good. Their two best bowlers are out injured, Sammy was not fit, and when the ball stopped moving they looked like a club [...]

Australia It all came so easy in the first session with 3 wickets and an injury.  But then for the first time the West Indies batsmen thought they’d try and bat.  Australia looked rather pedestrian from there on in, except for a bizarre over where the “Obvious Mistake” referral system was stretched and Watson took [...]

I got to my friend’s house with time to spare before the start of the coverage. I ended up spending about 5 hours there, to see 2 minutes and 2 seconds of action. Boxing is like that. The copious amounts of torturously boring “filler” material included in the coverage were painful. I did not care [...]

The Sims meets 60 Minutes.

I am sad that Brad Hodge has decided to retire from first class cricket, thus ending any potential engagements as Ricky’s understudy.  Sure I like to take the piss when it comes to Bradley, but he doesn’t make it hard, does he? Brad never met a microphone/reporter/human/robot he didn’t like to tell that he should [...]