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It’s January 2003 and the entire cricketing nation is focused on the outcome of a single delivery at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The members have left the bars and the coffee stands. They crowd around the windows and cram into the stairwells, facing the playing arena. Tens of thousands at the ground strain forward in […]

Could Australia’s A team beat this English rabble in a Test? Twenty-six years ago, Australia A took on and took down England in the limited-overs arena. If Australia’s current second-stringers matched up against England’s Ashes squad in the Test arena there’s a fair chance they’d also emerge victorious. In 1994-95 when Zimbabwe was the third […]

If a humbling Ashes defeat in Melbourne wasn’t enough, England also have to deal with a COVID outbreak within their squad. At this stage, their tour from hell continues. However, if their COVID cases spread further within the extended squad, enough may finally be enough. Sydney and Hobart cricket fans would rightfully be upset. However, […]

By 1942, the tentacles of the Holocaust had spread from Europe across north Africa into the Middle East. Gershom Gorenberg explores the largely forgotten brutalisation of Jewish populations from Morocco to Iraq in the Second World War

Originally, I was going to add Mark Taylor for a three-way comparison, given his outstanding series at home in 1989-90 and his very good series at home in 1995-96. However, this would mean I would need to include Steve Waugh’s 1988 and 1989-90 performances, which would be perhaps a tad unfair as it was before […]

I have drawn up four tables as a comparison between all Australian batsmen who faced the fearsome four-pronged West Indian pace attacks tween 1979 and 1997. For this analysis, I am eliminating five of the six dead rubber Tests that occurred between the two sides in this period. These are the fifth Test in Kingston […]

The world’s best have been honing their 20-over games since 2016 but it is hard to draw the impression that Australia have done the same

I have drawn up four tables as a comparison between all Australian batsmen who faced the fearsome four-pronged West Indian pace attacks tween 1979…

On this day in 1998: Tendulkar played a 143-run knock against Australia at Sharjah NEW DELHI : It was on this day, 23 years ago, when former India batsman Sachin Tendulkar played a 143-run knock against Australia to take India into the finals of the Sharjah Cup. This innings by Tendulkar is still considered as one of his best ODI knocks. The batsman scored 143 runs in pursuit of 276 runs from 46 overs. Batting first, Australia had scored 284/7 owing to Michael Bevan’s knock of 101 runs. Howev...