Andrew Symonds has an alcohol problem. So does Cricket Australia, writes Gideon Haigh.
Andrew Symonds
Sayonara Symonds, there will never be another you
James Sutherland will never allow us another you, Roy. You are it, a dying breed of drunkard cricketer.
Andrew Symonds’ final over
All-rounder Andrew Symonds has surely played his last match for Australia, says Glenn Mitchell. The latest alcohol-related incident comes at the end of a tumultuous 12 months; even Ricky Ponting’s stopped defending him.
Hard work ahead for cricket’s thought police
If Cricket Australia hoped its heavy handed response to Andrew Symonds daring to criticise it would shut down his team mates as well then it will today be very disappointed, writes Jeff Wall.
Ten jumps on the IPL Twenty20 bandwagon
One-day international cricket will soon go the way of the dinosaur and cricket’s brave new world will be dominated by Test matches and the burgeoning fledgling form of the game, Twenty20, as cricket undergoes its greatest revolution since Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket, writes Charles Happell.
Things we know about Cricket
Monkeys are sacred in India.
Monkey business: Symonds, not Singh, the guilty party
Harbajan Singh got off lightly, say the critics. But when one reads the entire judgment of Justice John Hansen in the Singh appeal, it’s clear that the real culprit is Andrew Symonds, writes Greg barns.
Aussie cricketers are in a mire of their own making
So it’s come to this. The relationship between two formerly friendly cricket nations has broken down, jeopardising a Test series, but don’t blame the Sydney Test. The current impasse has been brewing for a while, writes Thomas Hunter
Cricket fiasco: The commentators have got it wrong
Forget the boorish arrogance of Australia’s cricketers, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has a lot to answer for, writes Adam Schwab.
Another hollow victory for Australian cricket
Can there have been a more hollow win in Australian sport? From day one to day five, the second Test match at the SCG was rotten to the core, tainted by appalling umpiring, bad sportsmanship, sledging and, finally, a suspension for racism, writes Charles Happell.
