Interview for The Switch Hit podcast
I had a chat with Adithya Vadapalli for an hour on December 19 for The Switch Hit Podcast about a broad range of issues relating to Australian cricket over the years.
2009 My Test live-tweeting debut
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The Seventh Test Sydney 1971
On Wednesday August 1 2018 at Edgbaston an England team walks on the field to begin a Test match for the 1000th time. Among the reflections, the listicles and the shallow on-line polls, people have been choosing their greatest and/or favourite Test matches of the previous 999 (actually 1004 if you count washouts and cancellations). […]
The grim trial of strength that went mainstream: women’s Test cricket
Before the Australian women’s cricket team played their touring England counterparts in Brisbane in December 1934, the following directive appeared in the Courier Mail: No one in the press or elsewhere paid any attention to this instruction, and the first women’s Test match concluded at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground on New Year’s Eve 1934, […]
A bit of light reading about the 1999-2000 England womens tour
England’s women’s cricket team headed to the Antipodes in January 2000 to play one-day internationals in Australia and New Zealand. By the time they were ready to head east across the Tasman, England had lost the ODI series to Australia 0-4 and Karen Smithies had resigned as captain. Working for Cricinfo at the time I […]
2015: A year in cricket (or at least the start of it)
January 1, Kirribilli House, Sydney. Two of these three men still had their job at the end of the year: Blame John Howard for starting the annual New Year's Day lunch that led, in 2015, to this: pic.twitter.com/IeP3GCmAJm — Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) January 1, 2015 Statement from Kieran Powell about his absence from […]
Richie Benaud 1930-2015
Richie Benaud, 1930–2015: Cricketing legend, broadcasting giant, cultural icon My full obituary for Richie Benaud is published at Medium.
The Big Bash, And Juggling Cricket’s Three Formats
What started as a midsummer diversion in the English cricket season of 2003 became a multi-million dollar enterprise in India in 2008, and now almost every Test playing nation has its own professional Twenty20 competition, squeezed into their domestic program. The 2011-12 season saw the transformation of Australia’s state-based “Big Bash” competition into the franchise-based […]
Twenty21 revisited
If we didn’t know before, we do now. Australia’s 5-0 drubbing of England in 2006-07 is the first such triumph since 1920-21. But which was the bigger achievement?
Essex takes revenge for 1948
Essex v Australia, Chelmsford, 3-4 September 2005 Stumps Day One Essex First innings Runs Balls 4s 6s WI Jefferson b MS Kasprowicz 64 73 10 1 AN Cook c JN Gillespie b MS Kasprowicz 214 238 33 1 RS Bopara b SW Tait 135 220 17 2 ML Pettini c ML Hayden b SW Tait […]