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By SB Tang Note: an edited version of this piece ran on The Guardian Sport Network on Thursday 17 March 2016 The World T20 — the only major trophy that the Australian cricket team is eligible for that they haven’t won. As one Sheffield Shield cricketer cheerfully put it to me over a coffee recently: […]
March 6, 2016
By SB Tang It was a privilege and a pleasure to meet and chat with Laurie Sawle and write a feature story about him for ESPNCricinfo’s The Cricket Monthly magazine. You probably haven’t heard of him, but Laurie is one of the greatest contributors to Australian cricket’s success over the past half-century, a man who Steve […]
November 5, 2015
By SB Tang I wrote a 4000-plus word feature article for ESPNCricinfo’s The Cricket Monthly digital magazine about the rise of the bat-up method amongst Australian batsmen over the past decade. The article features the thoughts of the likes of Mike Hussey, Greg Chappell, Justin Langer, Ed Cowan, Brad Hodge, Peter Handscomb, Greg Shipperd and Ian Callen […]
August 25, 2015
By SB Tang I wrote a short piece for Roads & Kingdoms about the perfect breakfast: bánh xèo in the Mekong Delta. The excellent photos below were taken by my brother, Sze Tang.
August 16, 2015
By SB Tang I wrote a short essay for Roads & Kingdoms about “my greatest — well, only — invention”: a “Tiger topped”.
August 11, 2015
By SB Tang I wrote a short piece for The New Daily on 9 August 2015 about Michael Clarke. In summary: he retires as one of our all-time greats. Update: a longer version of this piece ran on The Guardian Sport Network on 28 August 2015. My edit of the longer version of this piece appears below. ***** Michael […]
August 11, 2015
By SB Tang I wrote a piece for Roads & Kingdoms about my favourite bowl of Hokkien mee in Penang.
August 4, 2015
By SB Tang Here’s my 2000 word piece for Wisden India defending Michael Clarke.
July 28, 2015
By SB Tang I wrote a 1000 word piece for The New Daily about the sound advice from Trent Woodhill that turned David Warner’s career around. A slighter longer version of the piece subsequently ran on The Guardian Sport Network.
July 22, 2015
By SB Tang Note: this piece appeared on The Guardian Sport Network on 21 July 2015. Everybody loves Joe Root right now. And who wouldn’t? Since being dropped for the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney in January 2014, Root has plundered 1530 runs — including five hundreds, four of which were of the monster, unbeaten […]
June 23, 2015
I wrote a short article for Roads & Kingdoms about drinking millet moonshine when I was volunteering in Nepal. During my time there, I worked with the Gorkha Foundation who were terrific. They’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit, grassroots organization working to improve living conditions and strengthen the economy in poor and marginalized communities in the Gorkha region of Nepal. Established […]
January 17, 2015
By SB Tang Note: an edited version of this piece appeared on The Guardian Sport Network. Here’s Australia’s World Cup squad of 15: Batsmen Michael Clarke (capt) George Bailey (vice-capt) David Warner Aaron Finch Steven Smith Wicket-keepers Brad Haddin (wk) All-rounders Glenn Maxwell Shane Watson Mitchell Marsh James Faulkner Fast bowlers Mitchell Johnson Mitchell Starc Josh Hazlewood […]
January 13, 2015
By SB Tang Note: an edited version of this article appeared in The Guardian Sport Network. In Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, the Devil, disguised as a foreign professor, and his retinue visit Soviet-era Moscow. During the course of their visit, the Devil’s interpreter, Koroviev, explains to a Muscovite that even in the strictly-regulated housing market […]
January 3, 2015
By SB Tang I wrote a 1500 word piece for The New Daily analysing Shaun Marsh’s performances thus far this Test summer.
December 12, 2014
By SB Tang Note: Phillip Hughes’s manager, James Henderson, has, on behalf of Phillip’s family, read and approved this obituary. An edited version of this obituary appeared in New Statesman. Phillip Joel Hughes was born on 30 November 1988 in Macksville, a small Australian country town (population: 2786), 471 kilometres north of Sydney. He grew […]
A Straight Bat 
March 19, 2016
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