My first Big Bash game, ten years on
December 30 2011: My first attendance at a BBL game, my only game in the Big Bash League’s first season, and my first to a T20 match in almost six years.
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.
Don Bradman’s eleventy-first birthday, a thread
On the occasion of the 111th anniversary of Donald George Bradman’s birthday – August 27 2019 – I searched up a number of unusual non-cricketing items about The Don from contemporary newspapers, with thanks to the National Library of Australia’s glorious Trove database: Happy eleventy-first birthday to Sir Donald Bradman. Being born on August 27 […]
Dennis Lillee at 70, a thread
A thread I posted to Twitter to commemorate Dennis Lillee’s 70th birthday on July 18 2019: In my opinion the most popular figure in Australian cricket since Bradman retired. Happy 70th birthday to Dennis Lillee. Here is the day he took 8/29 against the Rest of the World in 1971: https://t.co/CW3z4Ml3zn — Rick Eyre on […]
Sunil Gavaskar at 70, a thread
A thread that I posted to Twitter to commemorate Sunil Gavaskar’s 70th birthday on July 10 2019:
2009 My Test live-tweeting debut
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Sydney Thunder pre T20 era XI
As part of a debate that developed downstream from a team listing put together by Brad Hodge and tweeted by @7cricket a few days ago (see below), I have assembled a hypothetical Sydney Thunder squad of players from the pre-T20 era. Criteria for inclusion: They must have played for a club (or a predecessor) that […]
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). […]
Yesterday’s Papers Today: the Adelaide Test 1932-33
Third Test, Adelaide, January 13-19 1933: England 341 and 412, Australia 222 and 193. England won by 338 runs. One of the most infamous Test matches in the history of contests between Australia and England began on Friday the Thirteenth of January 1933. The timeless Test ended the following Thursday in a decisive England victory […]
Yesterday’s papers today: the Brisbane Test of 1950-51
First Test, Brisbane, December 1-5 1950: Australia 228 & 7/32 dec, England 7/68 dec & 122. Australia won by 70 runs. But first, an assurance by England captain Freddie Brown that all is well in the touring party: