From good to bad in the space of a weekFrom good to bad in the space of a week
AUSTRALIA’S national cricket team seems to swing from bad to good to bad in the space of a few weeks or sometimes even a week. The team was thrashed in[...]
Category: Australia
What Australia needs is a new cricket captainWhat Australia needs is a new cricket captain
A MOUNTAIN of sorts has been scaled by the England cricket team by defeating Australia by an innings and 71 runs in the second cricket Test in Adelaide. The last[...]
Bowlers pay the price, batsmen get off scot-freeBowlers pay the price, batsmen get off scot-free
PREDICTABLY, Australian left-arm paceman Mitchell Johnson has been dropped from the team to take on England in the second Test in Adelaide. Johnson returned figures of 0-66 and 0-104 in[...]
The bowlers failed but so did the captainThe bowlers failed but so did the captain
IT’S the fourth day of a Test match, the first of a series that is the most important of the year for your country. Your team is 202 runs ahead[...]
ABC News 24 is a dismal failureABC News 24 is a dismal failure
THEY call it ABC News 24. I call it ABC News 23. I think my nomenclature is more accurate since the ABC depends on the BBC to fill up an[...]
Cancer and religious strife: what Bush, Blair and Howard have sownCancer and religious strife: what Bush, Blair and Howard have sown
THE coalition of the willing invaded Iraq in 2003 in order to secure oil supplies for the West; they have left behind a legacy of religious and ethnic strife and[...]
As soon as Afghanistan is debated, the old terrorism bogey rears its headAs soon as Afghanistan is debated, the old terrorism bogey rears its head
THE Australian government, under pressure from the Greens, a party that is lending it support as it governs as a minority government, has begun a debate on why the country[...]
Australia’s cricketing disasterAustralia’s cricketing disaster
SHANE Warne, the Australian leg-spinner, was always keen to be captain of the national cricket team. Unfortunately, the Australian cricket administrators are obsessed with the idea that a man who[...]
What are Western troops doing in Afghanistan?What are Western troops doing in Afghanistan?
TWENTY-ONE Australian soldiers have died in Afghanistan since Canberra decided to join the American mission to that country. Thousands of American soldiers have been killed, and a goodly number of[...]
History tells us: the ICC must take the blame for match-fixingHistory tells us: the ICC must take the blame for match-fixing
IT WOULD be amusing to read all about the apportioning of blame by various people in the wake of the recent revelations about match-fixing, were it not for the fact[...]