Blogs & Pods

Date: December 9, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Few things other than prawns travel worse than the Indian Test team. Today it launches its four-Test campaign for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on the verdant Adelaide Oval. The current squad will be looking to achieve something that each of its predecessors could not – a series win on Australian soil. This encounter marks the 11th […]

Date: December 5, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Mateship is seen as one of the quintessential values in Australian society. It is written into the country’s history with tales of it being forged in the rugged outback, by miners working endless hours underground and on the battlefields of Gallipoli and Western France. Over the past week we have seen a very real, heartfelt […]

Date: November 28, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

It is often said that sport is a great leveller. However, this week it has served to flatten most people. The horrific scenes that played out at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday afternoon have left a pall hanging over us all, whether we are cricket followers or not. All of us are sportspeople at […]

Date: November 21, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Australia copped a hiding in the two Tests against Pakistan in the UAE. There is no chance it will suffer the same fate at home against India. The venue has often determined the outcome of Australia-India series as much as the playing personnel with the home side in the last two series claiming the Border-Gavaskar […]

Date: November 14, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

If Mitchell Starc misses out on the first Test against India next month it will mark the eighth time he has been dropped and he has only played 13 Tests. Since debuting in December 2011, Starc’s Test career with respect to the number of matches he has played each time he was recalled before being […]

Date: November 11, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

OMG, female cricketers have infiltrated the commentary box this summer. Yet remarkably the sky has not fallen in. Who would have thought? There have been several attempts in the past to include women in the commentary of cricket. The first, in this country, was the decision by Channel Nine to utilise actress Kate Fitzpatrick as […]

Date: November 9, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Sir Donald Bradman aside, Sachin Tendulkar is arguably the biggest name in cricket. Hence, the release this week of his autobiography was a much anticipated affair. No man has played more Test matches (200) and ODIs (463) and with an international career that spanned 24 years Tendulkar’s story was always going to be painted on […]

Date: November 4, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

A little over 18 months ago David Warner’s international career was at the crossroads. A twitter rant with two leading Australian cricket journalists on the tour of England was closely followed by a late night physical altercation with England batsman Joe Root during the Champions Trophy. The first outburst resulted in Cricket Australia issuing a […]

Date: October 31, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Let’s not beat around the bush, Australia’s performance in the first Test was embarrassing. In fact it ranks up there with some of the worst losses our national Test team has endured. Today it gets a chance to atone with the second Test starting in Abu Dhabi. A quantum leap in performance will be required […]

Date: October 17, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell

Australia has just reclaimed the world number one ranking in the one-day arena with its 3-nil sweep of Pakistan in the Emirates. It is a result that provides a fillip for the side heading towards the World Cup to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand in the New Year. The team claimed the […]