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 […]
Never before has a Prime Minister’s XI game assumed such significance. Not only will a pink ball be tested ahead of next month’s Adelaide Test, the Australians have picked a virtual Test squad of batsmen to face the Kiwi swing kings ahead of the first Test in a fortnight. In years gone by the PM’s […]
Few teams can defend 240 at tiny North Sydney but the Vics got lucky on Sunday, with Steve Smith resting and in-form Shane Watson yet again falling lbw when he was well set. Scott Boland took two of the last three wickets, a delicious irony given he was under the pump to perform with many […]
Red-ball cricket takes precedence, at least temporarily, with the start of the Trans-Tasman Tests in Brisbane. It is five years since the New Zealanders have been in Australia for Chappell-Hadlee Test action and for once they start as equal favorites with Australia’s new look Test team badly out of practice against the red ball. In […]
