Blogs & Pods

Date: March 31, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Michael Clarke has been at the forefront of this Australian cricketing summer. Not unusual when you consider that he is the captain of both the Test and one-day teams. However, most of Clarke’s headlines this summer have been centred not on matters on the field but for issues off it. His summer started with the […]

Date: March 27, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Many people believed that Mitchell Starc would be right up there when it came to the most successful bowler at this World Cup. In my pre-tournament prognostications I said he would top the wicket tally … mind you I also chose Kane Williamson as the leading run-scorer! Heading into today’s semi-final against India at the […]

Date: March 24, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Pakistan-born Fawad Ahmed was dominating the cricket headlines in mid-2013 despite not actually being on the field. At the time Cricket Australia was attempting to have his Australian citizenship fast-tracked ahead of the Ashes. On 2 July that year the leg-spinner became an Australian citizen. The following month he was selected to represent his adopted […]

Date: March 20, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

We have arrived at the pointy – or should that be meaningful – part of the World Cup. Last night South Africa broke through for its first win in a knock-out match since it played its first tournament, following readmission, in 1992. It was not a matter of removing a monkey off their back but […]

Date: March 18, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

The major sporting codes in this country are always trying to outdo each other. This week two of them simply imitated each other with respect to mind-blowing ineptitude. Both the AFL and Cricket Australia have certainly failed to cover themselves in glory. And from what we know both could have easily avoided the embarrassment that […]

Date: March 13, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Kumar Sangakkara is approaching the finish line of what has been a truly stunning career. Sri Lanka’s last match of this World Cup will be his last one-day international. Come August he says he will retire from Test cricket as well. For anyone who loves the game that news is disheartening. And it has many […]

Date: March 11, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

A three-man independent panel, 13 months and a 227-page report has told us that the sport of cycling is still riddled with drugs. Up until yesterday, when the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) was released, many involved in, and close to, the sport spoke proudly of a new unsullied era. We have heard of so […]

Date: March 6, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

The selectors have finally lost faith in Shane Watson – after 14 months of modest form in the one-day arena he was dropped for the match against Afghanistan at Perth yesterday. He was then forced to watch his teammates, in the words of Geoffrey Boycott, “fill their boots”. A World Cup record 6-417 was plundered […]

Date: February 20, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

In October 2001 the United States and its allies made Afghanistan the chief battleground against global terrorism. Remarkably, running parallel with the roadside bombs, air strikes and the ever increasing rubble was the birth of the national cricket team with the country receiving ICC affiliate status in 2001. And yesterday, a mere 14 years after […]

Date: February 13, 2015 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

The upcoming World Cup will likely to be the heaviest scoring tournament since the event was inaugurated in 1975. This year’s co-hosted event will be played on true surfaces on either side of the Tasman. Some of the grounds will feature boundaries that are little larger than what you would expect for an under-16 fixture. […]