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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 […]
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…
The stand-up comedian and radio host has published her first book about crime and the work that takes place after the worst has happened.
With COVID and everything I figured it was time to do another one of these nerd-intensive-but-not-entirely-irrelevant nostalgia pieces about Test XIs of the past I wish Australian had chosen. This one looks at Australia’s 1982 tour of Pakistan (called 1982-83 but it all happened in 1982). That tour doesn’t get talked much about in Australia […]
“My biggest recall was when I got out there, we were right in the s..t.” Lance Cairns was spot on. New Zealand were being smoked by Australia in the second final of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup on February 13, 1983. Enter Cairns – barrel-chested, tight shirt, silver medallion and already much-admired by NZ cricket fans because of his ability to hit the ball prodigious distances, which stole the spotlight from his core role as a world-class inswinging bowler and supporting cast member for Richard Hadlee. But what happened late in the day in Melbourne catapulted Cairns into a...