Cricket
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.
Cricket
India tour a shambles of highest order
Greg Baum Abysmal result demonstrates that Australia has lost control of its own cricket destiny.
Greg Baum
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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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.
Clarke a force of nature with a fine repertoire
Greg Baum Michael Clarke made a hundred, and Shane Watson did not. In Australian cricket terms, this was as night follows day.
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.
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.
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.
Cricket
He’s no Warne but Lyon does a passable impression
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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South Africa scores triumph of temperament
Greg Baum Adelaide Oval on Monday was like a Murray River camping ground in mid-summer.
A blow against common sense
Greg Baum It was in some ways a sporting week of driving to the periphery of the matter.
Cricket loses a gifted all-rounder
Greg Baum Tragedy far greater than 47 all out has struck cricket, and this should be a Roebuck column. But it isn't one, and can't be one, and never will be one again, because the tragedy is Peter Roebuck.
Windies star ahead of his time
Greg Baum AFL coaches could learn from the free-flowing performances of Viv Richards.
