CRICKET
Spark of hope still flickers among the Ashes
Richard Hinds NO, I didn't have Brad Haddin in my Ashes squad. Thought his time had passed. Didn't believe he had done enough to displace the incumbent Matthew Wade, or even earn a touring berth ahead of Tim Paine.
Cricket
The evidence is in, time to sift through Ashes to find a squad
Richard Hinds The ignominious tour of India has drawn to an appropriately calamitous conclusion. The Sheffield Shield - the anachronistic bugbear that complicates the scheduling of Big Bash League games and...
Pull the other one, it whistles dixie
Richard Hinds It is number, not necessarily gravity of issues that has created impression cricket is in turmoil.
Inverarity's knickers in a twist as little things add up to turmoil
Richard Hinds John Inverarity announced Australia's Twenty20 squad on Monday wearing vintage Y-fronts with badly stretched elastic.
Cricket
You don't have to be Einstein to see selectors are testing the laws of relativity in Johnson call-up
Richard Hinds Einstein strikes me as more of a chess man. But had the great physicist studied the Australian squad for the Perth Test, would he have considered Mitchell Johnson's inclusion a compelling example of...
Dossier moments needed
Richard Hinds It is one thing to publish a dossier, quite another to assume the bowlers will read it.
Heads, we lose - and it's all downhill from there for the hosts
Richard Hinds THE smallest measurable increment of time is that between the appearance of a red carpet and Brynne Edelsten plonking a Manolo Blahnik on the Berber.
