Chris Barrett

Chris Barrett

Chris Barrett is a Sports Writer with The Sydney Morning Herald.

TV sting accuses six umpires of fixing

Cricket

Chris Barrett Indian TV station says it has exposed six leading cricket umpires willing to fix matches.

Cricket

Lyon the mane man as Australia fires up

Nathan Lyon

Chris Barrett Delhi: Carted around at Chennai and then dumped, Nathan Lyon's immediate future as Australia's No.1 spin bowler was up in the air.

Chopper-cam not clear for take-off

The Tonk

Chris Barrett The FoxKopter has been grounded. One of the heavily spruiked innovations to Fox Sports' Twenty20 Big Bash League coverage, the mini-helicopter camera (pictured below), was conspicuous by its absence...

Cricket

Finger-picking good: Lawson wants ball tampering legalised

Geoff Lawson

Chloe Saltau, Chris Barrett BALL-TAMPERING laws should be relaxed to permit bowlers to pick the seam and redress the growing imbalance between bat and ball, former Test paceman Geoff Lawson believes.

Cricket

Umpire in Australian spotlight for fixing claims

Chris Barrett

Chris Barrett A seemingly trivial warm-up match between Australia and England before the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka has been thrust into headlights amid allegations of corruption made against six umpires.