How footy’s final flings flailed and flopped

FINAL CURTAIN – Dateline 2048. Chapter 2. GEOFF POULTER concludes his trip into the future where he saw the last rites being applied to the great game of footy. More »

Grand day at the G for a battered Test fan

Published 4m ago - Colin Dale

JETLAGGED Sportshounds writer COLIN DALE jumped off the flight from South Africa just in time to join the 73,000 at the MCG for the Easter Monday clash. Escaping the torture of the cricket at the Wanderers was just one of the many delights of being a sports fa... More »

Where have all the icons gone?

Published 6m ago - Geoff Poulter

HE STILL longs for the days of lounging in the original Long Room, watching the champs battling it out on grass at Kooyong… GEOFF POULTER looks back with longing for the good old days More »

The day Garfield Sobers really cooked the Oz bowlers at the MCG

Published 7m ago - Ron Reed

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 »

Cheers at last for England’s milestone men

Published 7m ago - Ron Reed

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 »

David Warner fills in an Ashes missing link

Published 7m ago - Ron Reed

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 »

Boxing Day is cricket’s Grand final

Published 7m ago - Ken Piesse

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 »

MCG means Marvellous, Cup and Grand

Published 10m ago - Greg Hobbs

FROM THE FIRST bounce until the Cup is finally held aloft, GREG HOBBS loves every moment of a Grand Final at the G More »

A second look does the trick as English spinner Moeen Ali joins an exclusive club

Published 12m ago - Ron Reed

GOOD THINGS come in threes, and, as chief writer RON REED reports in Test cricket so do some strange things: HAT-TRICKS are among the least common occurrences in Test cricket – in more than 2000 matches over nearly 150 years, bowlers have taken wickets with th... More »

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