Greg Baum

Greg Baum

Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age

Sorry Warner, you're no Warnie

Greg Baum The merest defence that can be made of Dave Warner is that he was not the most disgracefully behaved Australian male this week.

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Indian wickets tricky, not sticky

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Greg Baum From this hazy distance, it is hard to say whether or not the antbed Chennai pitch spooked the Australians in India. But it certainly spooked Australians in Australia.

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It's good Warnie can play cricket as he can't count

Greg Baum Shane Warne has waved his magic wand again, and turned a rabbit into ... a rabbit.

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Spin gets out of control for Warne

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Greg Baum Shane Warne doesn't look much like Warnie any more. Nor does he bowl much like Warnie.

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Cricket

He’s no Warne but Lyon does a passable impression

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Greg Baum "It’s easy," Mark Taylor said in the euphoric afterglow of another win over England in Australia’s halcyon days.

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Amid all the hoopla, a game of cricket broke out

Shane Warne drops a catch.

Greg Baum The conundrum of Big Bash League and Twenty20 cricket generally is that the more authorities infantilise its presentation, the more subtle the playing of it becomes.

Nowadays, it's doing what's best for the squad

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Greg Baum Watson is picked as an all-rounder. If he is unable to bat and bowl, he cannot play.

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South Africa scores triumph of temperament

Greg Baum Adelaide Oval on Monday was like a Murray River camping ground in mid-summer.