Twentieth-century Australia harboured a long grudge: that it wasn’t taken seriously enough. Sport was a way of balancing the ledger. What if that hunger ends? wonders Ed Smith.
Australian Cricket Team
Reasons why Australia are out of the World T20 thingy
Is it to lull England into an Un-English positivity? Or could there in fact be a far simpler explanation?
The big steal: looking back at a famous Pakistan win
A flashback to 15 years ago, when Pakistan famously put one over Australia in Karachi.
Pakistan hired cooks and drivers as guards for Oz series
The private security guards hired by the Pakistan cricket chiefs for Pakistan-Australia One-day series in United Arab Emirates may have only been a bunch of car drivers and cooks.
Australian cricket lumbers under poor selection policies
What can be made of Australia’s sterling comeback in game five against South Africa to lose the series by only the narrowest of margins?
Alas poor Haydos the flat track bully and Christian sledger
Matthew Hayden’s more than just a run machine that ran out of gas. He’s a great Australian, or so News Limited tells us, writes Walter Slurry.
Australian selectors need to get to work
Matthew Hayden has had a successful member of Australia’s all-conquering side — but his time has come, writes Adam Schwab.
Mungo: The real world crisis — Australian cricket
The Australian cricket team have brought disaster upon themselves by hanging around for too long, writes Mungo MacCallum.
ICC must overhaul cricket’s disciplinary processes
The treatment of Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh’s case by the match referee Mike Procter was scandalous. But that’s not Procter’s fault – he was doing his job under the ICC rules, writes Greg Barns.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Cricket furore … Election 07 was a landside … demonising coal not the answer … if the globe is warming, why is Antarctica cooling? … internet filtering … Qantas …
Mungo MacCallum: John Howard – decline and fall: Part 1
In the first of a series of extracts from Mungo MacCallum’s new book “Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election,” he examines where it all went wrong for John Howard.






