< 1 minute read And other such euphemisms. Whatever happens tomorrow, it’s been years since Australia were bossed about like this. They’ve lost Tests over the last few years, but those losses have often been helter skelter, chaotic affairs. This is different. Australia are being dictated to. Ever since Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly
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Amit Mishra takes five wickets on Test debut
2 minute read In Sri Lanka, earlier this year, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh were outbowled to a frightening degree by Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis. With their spin bowlers stumbling somewhat and Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma doing as good a job as all four Aussie quicks put together in the first
Continue readingPeter Siddle to make his Test debut
< 1 minute read Stuart Clark’s injured, so arch woodchopper, Peter Siddle, looks set to make his Test debut for Australia in the second Test against India at Mohali. Ricky Ponting said: “He’s a no-nonsense sort of guy and no-nonsense sort of bowler who will run in and deliver what you want him to
Continue readingStuart Law leaves Lancashire
< 1 minute read Stuart Law’s contract has not been renewed. Partly because he’s associated with the ICL, partly because he called Lancashire’s members gin-swilling know-nothings, but mostly because he’s 40 this week. The gin outburst came when Lancashire decided to do away with Dominic Cork and we always suspected that it was as
Continue readingShane Watson reckons he’s aggressive
< 1 minute read Here’s a quote from raving metrosexual, Shane Watson: “It’s a good way to challenge them [the Indians], physically and mentally. Not sledging but having an aggressive persona about you – and that’s the way I play my cricket.” Watson’s always saying things like this about how he plays aggressive cricket.
Continue readingYou’re reading about the Test when there’s Twenty20 on?
< 1 minute read There are two articles. One says Twenty20’s clearly going to kill Test cricket. One says that probably, on balance, that won’t happen. Newspaper editors will tend to publish the first one. The former’s punchier and it provokes debate, so we get to read a disproportionate number of articles about how
Continue readingMichael Hussey loves having the runs
< 1 minute read ‘Give me the runs’, he says. Michael Hussey feasts on dodgy bowling and then he has the runs. At the end of the day, he’s exhausted with it all, but he can still muster a weak smile, because that’s how much he likes having the runs. You’ve got to make
Continue readingRicky Ponting isn’t a different batsman when he’s in India
< 1 minute read The thing people often fail to understand about batting averages is that they only describe what’s already happened. Ricky Ponting’s average in India was famously bad, but yet he hit a hundred. That’s the thing about historical precedents – they only tell you about the past. The Australians came up
Continue readingWho to support – India or Australia?
< 1 minute read We know that there are a number of English readers out there who are having trouble picking sides for this series, so we thought we’d help you out. Normally this would be an easy one. You never want to support Australia, whoever they’re playing, because they’re the best. You usually
Continue readingWhy Beau Casson fakes injury
< 1 minute read “I’ve had [physio] Pat Farhart weave some of his magic and the groin has responded really well.” We move that from now on Pat Farhart should be crow-barred into any conversation about Australia – whether it’s justified or not. As far as Australian physiotherapists who take advantage of young spin
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