Cricket
Why Warner's spray has me yearning for the good old days
Richard Hinds David Warner's ill-tempered Twitter tirade at two cricket writers did not say much we did not know from watching the chunky opener at the crease: there are outback cattle stations where the wireless...
Cricket
Nine: better the devil you know
Richard Hinds You can't help hoping Nine can show Cricket Australia the money.
Subtract Nine from Ten and see what viewers are left with
Richard Hinds Since it was revealed by Fairfax Media that Ten had emerged as a very real alternative to Nine as the broadcaster of Australian cricket, it has been impossible to ignore a harrowing image.
Red (and black) letter days
Richard Hinds The media have often been accused of sensationalising behaviour of A-League fans.
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.
A-League
Ready to kick off: passion of fans both an asset and a danger
Richard Hinds It is a damp Saturday evening in Melbourne and I am sitting behind the goal at the northern end of AAMI Park with my 14-year-old Main Son. The first half has been tense, if not electrifying.
High praise for Gallop as timing is everything
Richard Hinds David Gallop's move to the A-League coincided with its best and brightest season.
Leading questions: Watson not committed enough to take reins
Richard Hinds Dan Quayle was once a heartbeat from the presidency. It seems no less disturbing that Shane Watson is just a bulged disc from the Australian captaincy.
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...
Skipper needs to get his hands dirty
Richard Hinds For the religious minded, Clarke must suffer for the sins of his fellow batsmen.
Cricket
Baggy Green phoenix will rise from Ashes
Richard Hinds REGULAR correspondents have claimed this column's glass is usually not so much half-empty as thrown against the office wall and smashed to pieces.
Cricket
When you've stopped laughing, Arthur's decision does make sense
Richard Hinds There is a serious side to this comic turn on the Indian tour, writes Richard Hinds.
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.
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Super skills and A-grade entertainment
Richard Hinds Samantha Kerr's joyous somersault after scoring the second goal in Sunday's W-League grand final deserves a place in the hall of fame, writes Richard Hinds.
Deserted island: Tassie crowds posted missing
Richard Hinds A QUICK poll. Tasmanians hate a) Test cricket, b) Sri Lankans or c) Ricky Ponting.
Why it's time flares fell out of vogue with A-League fashionistas
Richard Hinds There is an equation often used by Australian soccer fans to illustrate the victimisation they feel: 11 arrests during a one-dayer at the SCG equals a quiet night out; 11 arrests at an A-League game...
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10 Ashes Tests may give BBL a whack
Richard Hinds The Big Bash League, we were promised, would save cricket. What will save BBL?
Football
Derbies help give A-League traction
Richard Hinds The derbies might still be the A-league's exceptions outside the finals.
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...
