Andrew Wu

Andrew Wu

Andrew Wu writes on cricket and AFL for The Sydney Morning Herald

Cricket

Short shrift: Selectors dump Husseys from Twenty20s

Andrew Wu For the first time in more than five years Australia's Twenty20 team will take to the field on Saturday without a member of the Hussey family.

Bowled over by love for a very special man

FILE - DECEMBER 29, 2012:  South African born cricketer Tony Greig has died at the age of 66 in Sydney after suffering a heart attack. Reports suggest that Greig who went on to captain England during his playing career and then establish a subsequent career as a tetelevision commentator on the game had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer. Nov 1996:  A portrait of Tony Greig of Great Britain taken during the first test match between Australia and the West Indies at Brisbane cricket ground in Australia. Mandatory Credit: Shaun Botterill/Allsport

Andrew Wu TONY GREIG was once ostracised by the establishment, but such has been his mark on the game he loved that a bastion of cricket conservatism, the SCG Members Pavilion, played host to his memorial...

Cricket

Lankans left angry over a wet finish

Warner

Andrew Wu Sri Lanka to complain to match referee after farcical finish to the fourth one-dayer.

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Washout leaves all unhappy bar crowd

Australia

Andrew Wu The controversial decision was good fortune for Australia as the Sri Lankans were set to benefit from any revision of the target through the Duckworth-Lewis system after the rain delay.

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Cricket

CA shoots down talk of Clarke, Hussey row

The Tonk

CHRIS BARRETT, ANDREW WU Mike Hussey is at the centre of a rumour doing the rounds by email, and published in of all places a financial gossip column on Thursday, that he and Michael Clarke had a spectacular falling out...

Law aims to end spate of runouts

Missed out: opener Ed Cowan at the SCG.

Andrew Wu Australia's batting coach acknowledges the problem should be addressed urgently.

NSW job not for Clark

Stuart Clark.

Andrew Wu, Sydney Former paceman rules himself out of the running to be Cricket New South Wales' next chief.

Henriques gets his chance

All-round talent: Moises Henriques is in the squad for the next two one-dayers against Sri Lanka.

Andrew Wu All-rounder drafted into 12-man squad for next two ODIs against Sri Lanka.

Moises joins ODI conga line

Moises Henriques

Andrew Wu MOISES HENRIQUES had waited more than three years to hear back from national selectors but when the call came on Monday he missed it - and he has vowed not to make the same mistake again later this...

Cricket

Oh brother: Warne continues a family tradition with Samuels

The Tonk

Andrew Wu Shane Warne's barney with Marlon Samuels last Sunday was not the first feud the leg-spinner has had with a Samuels.

Cricket

Baby bump for Watson plans

Shane Watson and his wife Lee Furlong.

Andrew Wu Shane Watson could miss Test during tour of India to fly home for the birth of his first child.

Cricket

Father-to-be Watson adds to selection headaches

2nd Test:Day 2. Australia v Sri Lanka. Australia's Shane Watson in action at the MCG.27 December 2012.The Age Sport.Picture Sebastian Costanzo.

Andrew Wu SHANE WATSON is expected to put family before country and could miss a Test during the tour of India to fly home for the birth of his first child, creating another dilemma for national selectors.

English batsman flies in to flay the Sixers

Alex Hales

Andrew Wu Marlon Samuels' misfortune shared by the Sydney Sixers on Wednesday night.

Take fight to Malinga: Jones

Lasith Malinga.

Andrew Wu Batting coach believes playing out speedster is not the right tactic.

Big Bash League

Samuels doesn't court controversy, says ex-coach

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 06:  Shane Warne (L) of the Melbourne Stars has a heated exchange with Marlon Samuels of the Melbourne Renegades during the Big Bash League match between the Melbourne Stars and the Melbourne Renegades at Melbourne Cricket Ground on January 6, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.  (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)

Andrew Wu FORMER West Indies coach John Dyson does not regard Marlon Samuels as a player who would antagonise opponents on the field as the fallout from his stoush with Shane Warne continued on Monday.

Cricket

Testing year starts on key but requires fine-tuning

Michael Clarke

Andrew Wu MICHAEL CLARKE says Australia will head to the subcontinent as a work in progress after starting their most important year of Test cricket in recent memory with a series whitewash of Sri Lanka.

Cricket

Hussey's chance as Lankans implode

Australian vs Sri Lanka third cricket test  day 3 at the SCG.
Angelo Mathews runout against Australia
Photography Brendan Esposito
smh,5th January,2013

Andrew Wu SRI LANKA'S hare-brained batting has given Michael Hussey a chance to finish his Test career on a high but deprived Australia the chance to learn more about their revamped batting line-up before the...

Haddin tipped for recall over limited time

sport
NSW cricketer Brad Haddin before a training session at Manuka Oval.
The Canberra Times
26 November
Photo: Jay Cronan

Chris Barrett, Andrew Wu NATIONAL selector John Inverarity has forecast a recall for Brad Haddin to Australia's one-day team for the series against Sri Lanka and West Indies, while the country's Twenty20 captain George...

Haddin in ODI frame

Recall: Brad Haddin could be brought back into the one-day team.

Chris Barrett and Andrew Wu, Sydney National selector John Inverarity forecasts recall to Australia's one-day team for Brad Haddin.

Last Word

Fuss over SBW is jealousy, says Politis

SBW

Andrew Wu and Daniel Lane SYDNEY ROOSTERS head honcho Nick Politis has made an impassioned defence of his prized recruit Sonny Bill Williams by declaring the All Black, rugby league international and Kiwi heavyweight boxer...