Remember Gavin Robertson, the Australia offspinner who made his Test debut against India in Chennai in 1998, and then fell off the international circuit after a few months? In the Sydney Morning Herald, Daniel Lane narrates what happened to Robertson after his Australia and New South Wales career. Not all of it is pretty, but Robertson’s story turns out okay. Dropped from the national team and axed by NSW, off-spinner Gavin Robertson fell from being a respected athlete to a 31-year-old father who depended on social welfare payments to feed…
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By Stuart John, Australia Can Ed Cowan make more out of his international career than his English namesake?
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Malcolm Knox, in the Sydney Morning Herald, says having ridden in on a bat with no name, Michael Clarke can claim naming rights to the 100th Test at the SCG. Success for Clarke seems to spark the same public reaction as failure: a national referendum on the crucial question of whether he is a good bloke. With recent captains such as Ponting, Steve Waugh, Mark Taylor and Allan Border, people thought they knew already. With some, they didn’t care one way or the other. Perhaps Michael Clarke: Saintly Hero or…
After Australia’s compelling 122-run win against India at the MCG, Greg Baum, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, says the Test team has seemingly got their killer instinct back. In the first week of this year, Australian cricket was a humiliated entity. Since then, it has submitted to three reviews and spilled every position and structure. It has played nine Tests in three countries, beaten Sri Lanka, South Africa and now India, but also lost to New Zealand. It has made as few as 47 and as many as 488…
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The Sydney Morning Herald’s Andrew Wu looks back on some memorable debuts at the venue that will host its 100th Test in the new year. Born Reginald Erskine Foster, but better known as Tip, Foster was the only man to captain England at football and cricket. His 287 on debut in 1903 has stood for more than a century as the highest score made in an SCG Test … Foster’s debut effort remains the highest score by a Test debutant, well clear of the unbeaten 222 by South Africa’s Jacques…
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It’s hard to imagine that Shane Warne could look any more bronzed than he does at the moment. But it has been achieved by the sculptor Louis Laumen, whose statue of Warne has been unveiled outside the MCG. The first in a series of statues to be known as the Avenue of Legends, the Warne likeness sits outside the members’ entrance. Warne was on hand on Thursday to reveal the sculpture, which he had not seen himself until the grand unveiling. The statue shows Warne in his classic delivery…
Michael Clarke, writing in Australia’s Daily Telegraph, says his team takes responsibility for the batting in Hobart. Australia, he says, have the prefect chance to start moving in the right direction once more in the Border-Gavaskar series. When I first came into the Australian team everyone said we had a weakness against spin bowling and we did a lot of work on that. That’s what we’re doing now against the swinging and seaming ball. We’re practising as much as we can. It will take time for us to improve and…
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Matthew Hayden made a splash with his promotion of the Mongoose during the IPL but he’s gone back to the old-fashioned bat for the Big Bash League. Well, not quite. Old-fashioned bats don’t cost five-figure sums, which is what Hayden’s bat is worth, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald. The four bats Hayden will use during the BBL have their backs painted by a Tiwi Island artist. And when the tournament is over, they will be auctioned to raise money for a school….
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The Hobart pitch was probably the closest thing New Zealand would find to local conditions at home
Shane Warne’s cooking injury, a burnt finger that has put in doubt his Big Bash participation, has made him one of many who will suffer kitchen-related incidents over the festive season. Springing on the opportunity for some publicity, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) have asked Warne to help push their Christmas safety campaign. Following his accident, which Warne revealed on Twitter, he posted another message: “Ps no more trying to be a master chef! Stop and by a bacon roll on the way to the ground next time – silly…
