Blogs & Pods

Date: March 18, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Ahead of the T20 World Cup India was installed as favourite and for good reason. It holds the world number one ranking; it would be playing on home soil; it entered the tournament on the back of a seven-match winning streak and it had lost just once in its previous ten T20 internationals. M S […]

Date: March 11, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Maria Sharapova did what few athletes accused of doping do – she admitted guilt. In a well-crafted media conference on Monday she made all the right utterances. She was sorry, profoundly so, with her apology directed to the fans and the sport itself. Such was her contrition she informed the anti-doping authorities there was no need […]

Date: March 4, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

If you are a fan of the Australian cricket team life is about to get tough. As highlighted on The Roar yesterday at this point of time no contract has been inked to telecast in Australia the upcoming T20 World Cup out of India. Neither a commercial free-to-air network nor Foxtel have agreed to the […]

Date: February 19, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Why in the hell is it that fans get so wrapped up in umpiring decisions? Seemingly, no matter the code, fans tend to believe that umpires and referees should possess Papal like infallibility. For some reason many spectators simply cannot tolerate incorrect umpiring decisions. Why umpires are judged in this light lacks common sense, although […]

Date: February 12, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Shane Watson inked a $1.98m deal last weekend to play in the Indian Premier League in May, making him the highest paid player at this year’s auction. With the Rajasthan Royals suspended this year following a match fixing investigation, Watson will turn out for the Bangalore-based, Royal Challengers. During his stint with the Royals he […]

Date: February 5, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

According to Mark Waugh in one of his commentary stints during the BBL final Usman Khawaja is currently batting better than Brian Lara. It was Khawaja’s sublime man-of-the-match winning and title securing innings of 70 off 57 balls in the BBL finale that had Waugh digging for superlatives – what he came up with was […]

Date: January 29, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Steve Smith’s dismissal at the Adelaide Oval the other night sent social media into overdrive. It was neither the shot selection nor the quality of the bowling that had people’s fingers tapping furiously on miniature keyboards. The thing the audience found irksome was the fact that Smith was wired up with a Channel Nine microphone […]

Date: January 15, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

In the wake of the Essendon bans the AFL Players’ Association has called for the AFL to break away from WADA. At this point, AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has said that is not on the commission’s radar. The AFLPA has been vehement in its view that the ‘Essendon 34’ received an unjust result. The Association’s […]

Date: January 13, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Let the floodgates open. Following the decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to ban the ‘Essendon 34′ for 12 months, we can expect a raft of legal actions against the club. CAS found there was sufficient evidence to indicate the players were administered the banned substance, Thymosin Beta-4. The reaction on social media […]

Date: January 8, 2016 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Steve Smith has been a revelation and I wonder how many people picked it. Just two years ago he was pottering around in Sheffield ranks with New South Wales. And his record at the time showed that is where he belonged. Heading towards the end of the 2012-13 Shield season he was carrying a batting […]