Australia needs every last man to take charge
Greg Baum Cricket does not have to be synced to a teenager's temperament to be fulfilling.
Clarke reshuffle has cards fall Australia's way
Greg Baum For the second time in three Tests, Peter Siddle shoulders burden of leading threadbare attack.
Australia pulls off two-wicket win
Greg Baum, Johannesburg Pat Cummins crowns astonishing Test debut by belting the runs that delivered Australia a heroic and improbable two-wicket victory over South Africa.
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Common sense the loser in this tirade
Greg Baum Social media, unfortunately, seems to be the province of orphans.
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Punishment doesn't fit crime
Greg Baum Sport is not war, and a cricket team is not an army. Then why are they being treated as such?
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Indian wickets tricky, not sticky
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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Let's just shut our eyes and think of England
Greg Baum If we shut our eyes, put our fingers in our ears, and hum loudly to ourselves, the India series eventually will go away. Immediately, there is no other viable tactic.
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For the love of Boof
Greg Baum Coach Boof. Supercoach Boof. Linguistically, it doesn't work. The syntax is all wrong. But Darren Lehmann never did quite fit into a category.
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India tour a shambles of highest order
Greg Baum Abysmal result demonstrates that Australia has lost control of its own cricket destiny.
Bird rises in flying start
Greg Baum JACKSON BIRD'S first ball passed unremarkably, but the crowd clapped anyway because he was new to Test cricket and because this was Boxing Day at the MCG.
Johnson revives Thommo terror days
Greg Baum Sri Lanka was rudely manhandled back to the beginning, suffering at Australia's hands its third heaviest defeat in Test cricket.
Farewell to the insiders' outsider
Greg Baum It would be so much simpler to lampoon Tony Greig than to eulogise him. His chief reknown in the second half of his life was as a cricket commentator who often appeared to be playing up to a...
The end of an innings
Greg Baum It would be so much simpler to lampoon Tony Greig than to eulogise him.
Spin gets out of control for Warne
Greg Baum Shane Warne doesn't look much like Warnie any more. Nor does he bowl much like Warnie.
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Old crew still there, even Punter
Greg Baum At the fall of the second wicket at Bellerive yesterday, Ricky Ponting appeared as usual. This was happenstance.
Cheers as Hussey defies years
Greg Baum If cricket were an equation, Mike Hussey would be a given. He came to Test cricket 10 years behind his contemporary, Ricky Ponting, at an age when talk of an honourable way of finishing begins to...
Bird gets early wickets, the MCG crowd gets what it wants
Greg Baum Jackson Bird's first ball passed unremarkably, but the crowd clapped anyway.
Too few watched, but rewards for those who made the effort
Greg Baum At the heart of Sunday's play at Blundstone Arena, as the first Test hung in the balance, not many people watched not much happen for quite a long time. It was a deceptive inertia.
Pitch in death roll as fate toys with skipper's men
Greg Baum The first Western sailors to find Sri Lanka called it the Isle of Serendipity. Serendipity is the faculty for making happy discoveries by accident.
Siddle-handed demolition job masks inherent hallucination that all is not what it seems
Greg Baum Michael Clarke's work with smoke and mirrors was so deft that another sparse gathering of watchers at Bellerive could have sworn they saw wicketkeeper Matt Wade bowl an over of nippy medium pace.
