September 24th, 2007. Pakistan face India in the final of the inaugural World Twenty20 tournament at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. India set Pakistan a target of 158 for victory. In the eighth over of Pakistan’s innings, Younis Khan, one of Pakistan’s most dependable batsmen with a Test average in excess of 48, mistimes a drive… [Read more…]
December 9, 2011
On the 23rd of August 2009, Ben Hilfenhaus finished his maiden Ashes tour as the series’ leading wicket-taker, with 22 wickets at 27.45. He impressed all with his mastery of swing, work-rate and consistency in the face of the inconstant moon that was the nominal leader of the Australian pace attack. Following in the footsteps… [Read more…]
December 1, 2011
Michael Lewis’s Moneyball is, courtesy of a critically-acclaimed film adaptation starring Brad Pitt, the sports writing flavour of the month. Lewis, granted fly-on-the-wall access to the Oakland A’s Major League Baseball team during their 2002 season, tells the story of how Billy Beane, their general manager, employs non-traditional statistical methodology to achieve on-field success out… [Read more…]
November 20, 2011
On 13 August 2011, England ascended to the number 1 position in the ICC’s World Test Rankings System for the first time in the current system’s eight year history by defeating the preceding incumbent India in the Third Test at Edgbaston to ensure a margin of victory of at least two Tests in this summer’s… [Read more…]
August 7, 2011
In less than a month’s time, Michael Clarke will lead Australia in his first Test match as full-time captain. At the time of his appointment as Australia’s 43rd Test captain on 30 March 2011, following Ricky Ponting’s resignation in the aftermath of Australia’s first three innings-defeat home Test series loss in 134 years of Test… [Read more…]
March 24, 2011
Like I said before, I’m struggling to contain my apathy towards this World Cup and nothing which has happened in Group A has changed that. By the time Australia played an opposition side with a reasonable chance of beating us in a non-rain affected match, Australia, along with every other regular Test-playing nation (that excludes… [Read more…]
March 8, 2011
Once upon a time in the mid-to-late ’90s, winning the one-day World Cup mattered to the Australian public. I suspect that this was because it offered the only means by which to obtain formal confirmation that the Australian team was, as their consistent Test performances since toppling the West Indian Empire at Sabina Park in… [Read more…]
March 8, 2011
Batsmen Ricky Ponting (Captain): The only batsman in the world who can legitimately challenge Sachin Tendulkar’s claim to the title of Greatest One-Day Batsman Ever. The man’s racked up over 13,000 runs at an average of 42.60 and a strike rate of 80.55, with 29 centuries. He’s playing in his fourth consecutive World Cup and… [Read more…]
February 28, 2011
By his own admission, Andrew Hilditch was a mediocre Test batsman who was “extremely fortunate to play for Australia”. However, there can be no doubt that he is a distinguished and experienced commercial solicitor. He is a partner in a leading commercial law firm with offices in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. He has a… [Read more…]
April 19, 2012
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