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[...]
The vice-captain of Australia’s cricket team, Shane Watson, has stepped down from his post. Not from the team, just the post. It’s good he did it, because that saves the[...]
At times, the manner in which a batsman makes runs provides evidence of his ability. But the reverse is also true: at times, the way a batsman scores is indicative[...]
Back in 1967, the then Indian finance minister Morarji Desai had the brilliant idea of raising taxes well beyond their existing level; the maximum marginal tax rate was raised as[...]
Last month, Australia completed a miserable cricket tour of India during which it lost all four Tests, the first time this has happened since 1970. On that occasion, a strong[...]
PATIENCE is a virtue that Australia’s national cricket team seems to lack. And impatience does not serve one well in Test cricket as the results from the first two matches[...]
THE xenophobes in Australia — and that’s a goodly proportion of the population — will find themselves in a difficult position if Fawad Ahmed is granted citizenship and selected to[...]
AFTER more than 20 years, I finally went to the stadium to watch a one-day international, between India and Australia. I will never do so again. In 1989, I watched[...]
PREDICTABLY, India has been whitewashed by Australia in the four-Test series. This is the second such loss abroad in the space of six months; in between, India managed to beat[...]
THE Indian cricket team is licking its wounds after having suffered a third straight loss in the Test series against Australia, the latest inside three days. On the surface, there[...]