As the title of Alan McIlvray’s book notes, The Game Goes On. Still, as Summer gives way to Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, one cannot help but feel the celebration of cricket which is the World Cup, and indeed the whole season, has been bookended by two losses which will leave a lasting impression on […]
A shooting star whose light burned gloriously but all too briefly, the death of Phil Hughes at only 25 reminds us in the most tragic manner of both our own mortality and of the joy which one so gifted can bring us in so short a time.
After 24 years India’s favourite son has played his last Test and amidst emotional scenes almost left centre stage with a fairytale century. In this feature Cameron pays tribute to him
Over the next few days three CricketWeb writers, from varying locations across the cricket world, will be posting their reflections on the great man. An Australian, naturally, starts us off.
In the wake of the success of enoyed by Australia’s Big Bash CricketWeb’s Cameron Burge asks the inevitable question.
New Zealand approached the first test against Australia having had the better of a drawn lead up match against Australia A and having pasted the home side’s young pace men at Allan Border Oval the week before the Gabba outing.
It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
– Sir Winston Churchill, on Russia. 1939
Many are saying this will be the closest Ashes series in Australia in decades, and that England will win. Many saying it weren’t born when that last happened. Here’s why they’re wrong.
Cricketers often talk about “playing tough”. You want tough? Forget the puffed-chest bravado of contemporary pretenders. Instead we give you Allan Robert Border.
Much has been made over the past 12 months about Australia’s return to the field in the longer form of the game. Occasional criticism has rightly been raised of Ricky Ponting’s captaincy and of a batting line up more prone to collapse than was the case with those of the immediate past. But are these really the burning problems in Australia’s Test line up?