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The Ashes report card
THE WINNERS and the losers in yet another triumphant Australian home soil campaign. KEN PIESSE rates the teams More »
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Ashton Agar gets another crack in Sydney
THE NEW YEAR Test in Sydney re-introduces Ashton Agar into Australia’s Test XI for the first time since his fairytale beginnings in 2013. KEN PIESSE reports. More »
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Bird man headed for the outer
JACKSON BIRD seems likely to be consigned back to the Big Bash having run headlong into a meat mangler by the name of Alastair Cook on a benign wicket which has been roundly condemned by even the purists enjoying England’s revival. KEN PIESSE reports. More »
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The day Garfield Sobers really cooked the Oz bowlers at the MCG
THE WEEK THAT WAS: England’s most successful batsmen of all time left the MCG crowd with something amazing to remember on what will almost certainly be his last appearance at the great stadium – but was it the best innings ever played there? Probably not, as C... More »
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Alastair Cook covers for the batsmen who walked without question
HE LOOKED in danger of being dropped for the Boxing Day Test but England’s veteran opening batsman has now played the best innings of any visiting cricketer in the storied history of the MCG – and after almost two full days at the crease he was still not out. ... More »
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Cheers at last for England’s milestone men
ALISTAIR COOK HAS been a long time reminding cricket fans of the days when he simply didn’t know how to get out in Australia but the birthday present he craved – a hundred – has finally arrived, says Chief Writer RON REED. More »
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David Warner fills in an Ashes missing link
THE GODS forgive a single error as the Australian vice-captain hoists a Test match hundred that was always going to happen sooner or later. Chief Writer RON REED reports. More »
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Hogg and Hodge thrive in the roaring forties
AGE SHALL NOT weary them, not when they love playing cricket as much as Brad Hodge and Brad Hogg do, which is good news for the Big Bash League, writes RON REED. More »
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Boxing Day is cricket’s Grand final
KEN PIESSE has seen every Boxing Day Test since the first in 1968-69. He takes us through some of the highlights of those matches and predicts the outcome of the next edition. More »
Jeff’s Happy Christmas
Jeff, like most of us will have a Happy Christmas! More »
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They’re serving roasted Poms in Fleet Street
SMASHING the Poms by more than an innings will always bring unbridled joy to most Aussie cricket fans, and regaining the Ashes is a sporting highlight to be feasted upon. But rejoicing in the predictable Fleet Street backlash back in the “mother country” can b... More »
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Town crier and divine intervention
George Haddon's final take on the 3rd Ashes test in Perth More »