The light at the end of the tunnel for fans of Australian football over recent years has been the committed move towards a men’s National Second Division. Without such an entity, the game would simply remain fractured and unable to eliminate the chasm between the traditional clubs still competing at NPL level and the A-League […]

Eddie Jones’ departure has once again changed the status quo in Australian rugby. For the second straight Test season, every position is up for grabs. The difference for Jones’ successor is they won’t be starting again like Dave Rennie did in 2020 – the start of the last four-year World Cup cycle. While the start […]

Australia’s clash with Afghanistan on a steamy evening in Mumbai at the World Cup was the 4,696th ODI ever played. None have featured an innings even remotely comparable to the one produced by Glenn Maxwell, to haul the Aussies to the most staggering of victories and seal their semi-final spot. Words simply cannot do it […]

Australia’s 30-0 drubbing at the hands of New Zealand in the Pacific Championships final may not be the final chapter in James Tedesco’s representative career but it should be.  The Kangaroos captain is still a very fine player and coach Mal Meninga has been loyal to his veteran fullback but at some point the reality […]

Are the batsmen at the ICC World Cup that swashbuckling good or is it a false economy in India? After the Blacks Caps’ Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method (DLS) loss to Pakistan at Bengaluru, it’s fair to assume the 50-over, white-ball format is in the grips of inflation. That doesn’t mean the efforts of the century makers — […]