Sunday’s third Test with the Calypsos is pivotal not only in Australia’s quest to again be the No 1 Test nation – the odds of which continue to improve with South Africa’s faltering home performances against England – but the stakes are huge for cricket in general. The West Indies are a fading drawcard and […]
KEN PIESSE says it’ll take years before the once-mighty West Indies are again fixtured for the glamorous Christmas-New Year Test double in Melbourne and Sydney. The inequality of cricket’s riches has seen the once-proud and mighty West Indies lurch into the abyss. In the Caribbean in mid-year, its national team was twice beaten well inside […]
One of Australia’s Golden Age cricketing heroes Reggie Duff has been remembered in the latest ‘Nostalgia Series’ biography from my publishing arm cricketbooks.com.au Reggie, five years of Fame, the story of Reginald Duff is a 160 page hardback by Ric Sissons. Publishing this month, just 200 have been printed of which 100 have been signed […]
NZ fluffed their chance in Brisbane and it’s impossible to see them taking the game much past the weekend, especially given the unnerving extra bounce which is likely. Tim Southee is being given every chance to be fit after his disc problem but he has bowled only at gentle pace in the nets and while […]
