Australia’s epic comeback win in Christchurch will live long in Test cricket folklore but it shouldn’t paper over the cracks in the team’s batting line-up. The dramatic three-wicket victory completes a summer of seven Tests for Australia in which they finished just nine Gabba runs shy of a flawless record. Despite the 6-1 campaign, the […]
Round 20 was an eventful weekend of football, with two draws, 17 goals in six matches, a four-goal thriller and two teams kept a clean sheet, a red card and a couple of penalties. In three out of four games where a team claimed three points, the winning team had less possession than their opponent. […]
Essendon players say an “urgency” has driven their pre-season after ending the 2023 campaign with coach Brad Scott’s stinging message ringing in their ears. After capitulating in the final six rounds of last season, blighted by mammoth defeats to Greater Western Sydney and Collingwood, Scott declared the Bombers had to take “extraordinary measures” to lift […]
Roosters prop Spencer Leniu has been banned for eight matches after the NRL judiciary handed down its verdict on Monday night for racially abusing Broncos five-eighth Ezra Mam. His lengthy suspension means he will be unavailable until Round 10 when the Roosters host the Warriors on May 12 and he avoids taking on the Broncos […]
New Test, same result, same problems for Australia as they finish their tour of New Zealand with a fifth win from five matches. Christchurch, though, was the visitors’ sternest Test yet – and after another series of top-order failures left them in dire straits at 4/34 chasing 279 for victory, it took heroics from Alex […]
