Josh Hazlewood says he’s not a numbers guy. So he’s not going to rave about joining a rare club in Australian cricket: bowlers with 250 or more Test wickets. Hazlewood achieved the milestone on Australia’s dominant opening day of the first Test against the West Indies in Adelaide. The Australians bowled the tourists out for 188 […]
Schuster v Schuster: If Manly can bring back 2021 Josh, they’ll have one of the NRL’s best backrowers
If you’re good, people expect more of you. This has pretty much always been the problem with Josh Schuster: his talent, even when fleeting, is there for all to see. We hold him to a higher standard because there’s the feeling that he’s a lot better than he is showing – not least because when […]
‘Wow’: Zverev in second tense exchange with AO journalist after more questions about upcoming trial
Olympic champion Alexander Zverev snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a five-set marathon win over Lukas Klein. In a see-sawing second-round encounter on John Cain Arena, Zverev was two points away from elimination when serving to stay in the match at 5-6 in the fifth set, but held his nerve to oust the […]
Plenty of Test cricket’s records look safe, but which ones can still be broken?
One of the absolute joys that makes test cricket unique is there is no other sport where records set, whether by intent or by accident over 100 years ago can survive. The first test set a record that 2522 tests later still hasn’t been broken (Charles Bannerman’s 165, the highest individual share of runs in […]
The great NRL 2024 top 8 swap… Who’s moving into the finals – and who’s out?
It is now officially 2024, so that means one thing – NRL prediction season. When it comes to top 8 predictions, the safe option is to stick with last year’s teams, but history says otherwise. As the below table shows, there is an average of 2.67 teams swapping places between top and bottom 8 (Now […]