Australia’s Test losses: six, and countingAustralia’s Test losses: six, and counting
THE last time Australia lost six Tests in a row, it lost a captain with the fifth of those losses. That was Kim Hughes who wept openly at a press[...]
Category: Ashes
Whinging Poms or whinging Aussies?Whinging Poms or whinging Aussies?
BACK in March, when Australia played India in a Test series, the Decision Review System, the use of technology to query on-field umpiring decisions, was not used because India had[...]
Much ado about nothing: sportsmen are not the moral compass of any nationMuch ado about nothing: sportsmen are not the moral compass of any nation
SINCE when did cricketers — or any other sportsmen for that matter — become the moral compass of the people? Since when was it wrong to do anything that passed[...]
When the Ashes come around, everything else loses its importanceWhen the Ashes come around, everything else loses its importance
WHEN sport comes along, major sport that is, international contests, everything else is pushed to the background in Australia. And you can’t get bigger than the Ashes, the contest for[...]
Farewell D’Oliveira, a man who changed the systemFarewell D’Oliveira, a man who changed the system
BASIL D’Oliveira died on November 19. I remember him because of the fact that he was a principal actor in what was the first international series of cricket which I[...]
Ashes to Ashes: Australia left in the dustAshes to Ashes: Australia left in the dust
AT LEAST one Australia could have been happy after the catastrophic defeat in the fifth and final Ashes Test – but even that didn’t happen. Ricky Ponting, forced to stand[...]
Final Ashes Test: Ponting’s mixed feelingsFinal Ashes Test: Ponting’s mixed feelings
RICKY Ponting faces five very difficult days ahead. Days when he will be torn between wanting Australia to do well in the final Ashes Test and also fully aware that[...]
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[...]
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[...]