Blogs & Pods

Date: January 25, 2023 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Great Sporting Lives is a podcast series that features long form interviews with a host of sportspeople across 29 different sports, each running around 55 minutes. Listen to them tell their story in their own words – from their childhood memories of sport, their  journey to reach the elite level and the triumphs, disappointments and challenges […]

Date: August 7, 2019 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

“Don’t change a winning team”. It is an age old adage in sport. If I was selecting the Australian team for the second Test I would be running with that mantra. Much debate surrounded the composition of the XI for Edgbaston and it will no doubt burble around prior to the Lord’s Test. In the […]

Date: August 6, 2019 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

As sports fans we are used to seeing our heroes struggle. Injury and age are often a more formidable hurdle than the opponent. A long-term lay-off due to injury has fans questioning whether greatness can be retrieved. For female athletes, motherhood reshapes people’s expectations. As fans, we watch and wait. Will we see that same […]

Date: July 30, 2019 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

The new concussion rule in Test cricket comes into vogue as of the first Ashes Test tomorrow. Its application may well prove to be a headache for match referees as they will be the sole arbiter as to who is allowed to replace a concussed player. The new ICC regulation states that the replacement has […]

Date: July 29, 2019 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Come Thursday, Australia is guaranteed to field a Test team that will contain at least four changes to the one that played against Sri Lanka at the end of last summer. Everyone has an opinion on what the XI should look like, so here’s my take. We are entering a unique Ashes series with the […]

Date: July 24, 2019 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

The National Selection Panel is due to announce its Ashes squad on Saturday, six days ahead of the opening Test at Edgbaston. For mine, Peter Siddle needs to be amongst the names read out by chief selector, Trevor Hohns. I would have him in the 17 alongside Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and comeback […]

Date: July 9, 2019 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Glenn Maxwell’s World Cup has been lukewarm. His performance has to heat up as Australia enters the finals. Yes, he boasts the third highest strike rate in the tournament and is the best of the Australians at 163.1. But unfortunately that strike rate has been accumulated across an aggregate of just 95 balls from nine […]

Date: July 1, 2019 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Mitchell Starc is building a body of work that may soon see him as Australia’s premier one-day bowler of all-time. He is also on a trajectory that will see him mentioned in the same breath as the best from any nation. His form at this World Cup has him in the frame for Player of […]

Date: June 24, 2019 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

“It’s a little bit embarrassing.” Those were the words uttered by South African skipper, Faf du Plessis after his side lost by 49 runs to Pakistan at Lord’s. That result saw the life support system on the Proteas’ World Cup campaign switched off. The South African team has won just one of its seven matches. […]

Date: June 3, 2019 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

In the words of Rachel Hunter, “It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.” Bangladesh’s progression to its stunning demolition of South Africa at the World Cup has been slow with the odd pace forward followed by two backwards. In the early days the progress appeared glacial and the country’s journey towards holding its own […]