Cricket
India tour a shambles of highest order
Greg Baum Abysmal result demonstrates that Australia has lost control of its own cricket destiny.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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...
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.
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.
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.
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Wowee, time for REAL cricket
Greg Baum Again, it is tense and terse and testy, and watchers can't take their eyes off it.
Cricket
Clubs trump nations in new world of T20
Greg Baum Here, paraphrased, is how cricket authorities saw the just-concluded World Twenty20.
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.
Let's back up a clear line on 'run-outs'
Greg Baum Sri Lankan batsman Lahiru Thirimanne clearly crossed one line when he was run out.
Cricket
If you've missed the cricket, you must give it a tri
Greg Baum Resurgent interest in 50-over cricket this summer has both delighted and confounded authorities.
Laws relax, and T20 knows its limitations
Greg Baum The ICC is about to relax the restriction on the number of Twenty20 internationals.
