Cricket News

The Maracana

The Maracana

Come on a guided tour (well, almost) of Brazil's 'Football Cathedral", the Maracana. 5 Jul 2013
Brandon Starc

Brandon Starc

He’s the younger brother of Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc. A national junior and senior high jump champion with a bright future 19 Jun 2013
Freeze Frame

Freeze Frame

The best sports Photography from around the world. 18 Jun 2013
Rising from Ashes

Rising from Ashes

A neat bit of progressive thinking in cricket, for a change. 15 May 2013
Douglas Jardine

Douglas Jardine

Nobody said Innovators had to be good guys. When a bloke comes along and, with one stroke, alters long-established rules forever, 1 Jan 2013
On The Punt - Big Bash League

On The Punt - Big Bash League

Any team in the field has a chance at emerging with this summer's Big Bash League title. 29 Nov 2012
Drinks With Ian Chappell

Drinks With Ian Chappell

Ian Chappell can sometimes sound tough in his criticisms on TV; that’s just him calling it as he sees it. 29 Nov 2012
Twenty20 Cricket with Cameron White

Twenty20 Cricket with Cameron White

White takes us through a typical T20 training day, whatever that might be ... 14 Nov 2012
Drinks With Max Walker

Drinks With Max Walker

Max Walker has reinvented himself time and again; from batsman to bowler, from radio star to television face, from architect to writer. 19 Oct 2012
Breaks Of The Game

Breaks Of The Game

Because sport is about the only thing that viewers feel compelled to watch live anymore, it’s also the last traditional TV way of making money selling ads. 1 Jul 2012
How Good Is Nick Maddinson

How Good Is Nick Maddinson

Powerful batter, excellent fielder, handy bowler and poised under pressure. Teenage prodigy Nic Maddinson has it all, 1 Jan 2012
Drinks With Damien Fleming

Drinks With Damien Fleming

While the cricketing world obsessed over tall quicks who dug the ball in and hit the bat hard, Fleming cantered in off a short run and bowled big hooping outies best viewed through sepia tint. 29 Dec 2011
Drinks With Mark Waugh

Drinks With Mark Waugh

Has there ever been a cricketer who made the game look easier than Mark Waugh? 7 Mar 2011
Consumer Durable

Consumer Durable

Modern spectators, ahem, consumers, still enjoy slow sport. It’s just we don’t see much of it these days. 1 Jan 2011
Kerry Packer

Kerry Packer

Cricket became a true television sport in the ‘70s thanks to the – some say – brutish investment of billionaire Kerry Packer. 8 Dec 2010
Drinks With Rod Marsh

Drinks With Rod Marsh

It’s unlikely there’s a man better qualified to talk about this summer’s Ashes series than Rod Marsh. 8 Dec 2010
Tom Willis

Tom Willis

A Fine Cricketer and Footballer, and the first man to write up a set of rules for our indigenous code of Football: Tom Willis is a colourful, tragic giant of Australian Sport. 11 Aug 2010
How Good Is Steven Smith

How Good Is Steven Smith

You’ve only got to tell him stuff once. he’s his own cricket coach 14 Mar 2010
Drinks With Billy Birmingham

Drinks With Billy Birmingham

When it’s summer, in Australia, if you don’t like Billy Birmingham that’s a real bummer because, more often than not, he’s the number-one man in town. 15 Feb 2010
Bernard Bosanquet

Bernard Bosanquet

Bernard Bosanquet’s googly just wasn’t cricket – batsmen couldn’t even see where it was headed! But he changed the way the game was played. 15 Jan 2010
Ian Chappell

Ian Chappell

Ian Chappell’s forthright but enabling leadership transformed a dispirited Aussie Test outfit into the world’s most influential team. 17 Nov 2009